Tokyo, top floor of the Sega Headquarters building.
Outside the wide floor-to-ceiling windows, autumn sunlight spilled across the streets.
Nakayama Takuya sat behind his desk, flipping through a copy of that day's Nikkei.
On the lower right corner of the front page, occupying a quarter of the space, was printed a bold black headline: [Sharp Announces New Generation of LCD Technology: HR-TFT Super Mobile LCD].
The office door was knocked upon.
Sato Hideki pushed the door open and walked in.
He carried a silver anti-static briefcase in his hand.
Nakayama Takuya tossed the newspaper onto the desk. "The press release from Sharp just came out, and the goods are already here?"
Sato Hideki placed the briefcase on the coffee table and flipped open the metal latches.
With two crisp clicks, the case lid popped open.
Inside, dozens of individually packaged LCD screen panels were neatly arranged.
"The final finalized batch, just air-freighted this morning from the Kameyama Plant." Sato Hideki picked up one of them and tore open the anti-static bag. "It matches the data published in the newspaper completely. The power consumption is one-seventh of traditional transmissive types, the thickness is reduced to a third, and the weight is cut in half."
Nakayama Takuya walked over and took the screen.
It felt extremely light.
The edge-cutting craftsmanship was much finer than the previous engineering samples.
"The edge light-leakage issue that the previous batch of samples had under extremely high humidity—is it resolved?" Nakayama Takuya turned the panel over to check the ribbon cable interface on the back.
"Completely resolved." Sato Hideki's tone was resolute. "Sharp adjusted the packaging process for the backlight module. This batch of finalized screens has higher color reproduction and a wider viewing angle. We ran three-hour limit tests in Sharp's laboratory and found no dead