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在高分辨率方面已经落后于LCD，无法盈利，故悲壮离场。
Fujitsu, plasma pioneer, says will exit business

Japan's Fujitsu group said it will end production of plasmatelevisions, a technology which it was the first in the world tointroduce commercially, due to lack of profitability.

Plasma televisions sales have been falling behind those for liquid crystal display (LCD), a rival high-definition technology.

Fujitsu General Ltd., asubsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd., has already stopped most production ofplasma televisions. It currently produces only high-end models soldprimarily at US and British boutique electronic stores.

"During the past several years, the pricing and profitability ofthis segment has compressed beyond the point which our company couldrealise a satisfactory return on investment," Fujitsu General said in astatement Thursday.

It said it would get out of the business by March and focus on theFujitsu unit's cores business of heating and ventilation equipment.

Fujitsu General was the first in the world to sell plasmatelevisions in the early 1990s after more than two decades of researchin the United States and Japan.

Fujitsu already gave up its major plasma-television operation in2005, handing over control of a joint venture to partner Hitachi Ltd.

Another Japanese firm, Pioneer Corp., earlier this year suspendedplans to build a new plant after running into the red over slidingsales of plasma displays.

The plasma television sector, however, continues to have strongsupporters including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., maker of thePanasonic brand.