Panasonic isn't sure when its plant in Chiba prefecture might resume carving up the glass sandwiches, telling Bloomberg that "there has been some damage, though not a fire or a collapse," but both Hitachi and Toshiba will reportedly halt some assembly lines for around a month to deal with damages. It's probably still too soon to talk about panel shortages -- though they seem likely soon -- but we'll let you know how things progress.
Toshiba and Hitachi LCD plans down for a month
Posted on Friday, March 18 2011 @ 22:37 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Engadget report both Toshiba and Hitachi will have to close their LCD plants in Japan's Chiba prefecture for around a month to deal with the damage caused by last week's devastating earthquake, while Panasonic isn't sure yet when its plant will be able to resume production.