S-LCD Corporation is a joint venture between the South Korean Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd and Japanese Sony Corporation established in April 2004 in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. S-LCD, as of April 25 2008, operated with a monthly production capacity of 100,000 seventh-generation amorphous silicon panels and 50,000 eighth-generation panels based on PVA technology, which are integrated into both Samsung Electronics and Sony LCD televisions. S-LCD originally had production facilities in both Japan and South Korea. Due to rising costs and an increasing demand from the Latin American... market, S-LCD opened production facilities in Baja California, Mexico, where both Samsung and Bravia have large LCD production facilities. On December 26, 2011, Samsung Electronics announced that it will acquire all of Sony's shares.
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