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Sony is chasing Toshiba with its own SED TV variant. The Corporation has partnered with the Japanese-based Technology Carve-out investment fund, to invest 2.5 billion yen in a new company, Field Emission Technologies Incorporated, expected to open its doors on December 18. The new company will pick up research already done by Sony into field emission display (FED) development and will begin a protracted period of study into the commercial prospects of FED TV displays.
Toshiba is already well advanced on its plans for surface-conduction electron-emitter displays, and is expected to begin shipping 55-inch screens into the Japanese market in 2007.