14 DAY TRIAL // A report by the 21st Century Business Herald picked up by Bloomberg reveals that 2,000 Wintek Corp. workers went on strike damaging facilities and vehicles in protest for not receiving a promised bonus for the year 2009.
Citing the 21st Century Business Herald, Bloomberg informs that, “Workers went on strike at a touch-screen supplier for Apple Inc.’s iPhone in China’s eastern city of Suzhou on Jan. 15.” The 21st Century Business Herald reportedly obtained a statement from the high-tech zone home to the factory, learning of the strike. “More than 2,000 workers gathered and damaged facilities and vehicles after rumors that the factory may not pay a planned bonus for 2009,” Bloomberg adds, citing the newspaper, which, in its turn, cites the statement.
The Taiwan-based company that provides the screens for Apple’s iPhones may now be responsible not only for diminished iPhone shipments, but also for the delay of a possible next-generation model, should Wintek be providing the screens for the new iPhone as well. Softpedia has issued somewhat of a theory on how Apple’s upcoming revision to the iPhone may play a big role in the company’s business. Learn more here.
Wintek Corp.'s main activities are manufacturing and selling liquid crystal displays (LCDs), liquid crystal modules (LCMs) and touch panels. Its LCDs and LCMs are applied in communication devices, digital still cameras (DSCs), portable navigation devices (PNDs), moving picture experts group layer-3 audio (MP3), MP3s, digital photo frames and ultra-mobile personal computers (UMPCs). The Group exports its products to Asia, Europe and other countries, while operations are carried out in Taiwan, Asia and even the United States of America.
In September 24, 2009, it was revealed that Che-Fu Tsai, Yi-Lin Chou and Wen-Chun Wang, all from Taichung, Taiwan, had developed a pixel structure of a thin film transistor liquid crystal display. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,592,627 on Sept. 22, while the patent was assigned to Wintek Corp., Taichung.