Samsung SDI next year to re take the top spot in the plasma Market

Yesky May 30th news (Yu compile) according to foreign reports, South Korea's Samsung SDI company sales and marketing vice president Chris Kim said, PDP (plasma display panel) market leader Samsung SDI company since the fourth quarter of last year the PDP market leader for Matsushita electronics, will set a goal for next year again sit on the top spot in the PDP market.

Kim said that in 2005, the entire shipments, Samsung SDI is still the market leader. However, since the fourth quarter of last year, due to the company failed to make the decision to expand capacity in a timely manner, thus missed the opportunity, and some of the market share lost to Panasonic electronics.

Expected this year, Samsung SDI PDP shipments will be ranked second in the world. Next year, the company will be able to become a leader in the field after the company's $730 million new PDP plant is put into production in May 2007.

The new plant is Samsung's SDI fourth plants, its monthly production capacity of up to 250 thousand equivalent to 42 inches of PDP. The production of the plant will help the company PDP annual production capacity from 4 million 320 thousand this year, up to 2007 of 7 million 320 thousand.