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E-paper maker E Ink Holdings (EIH) has disclosed that in order to reduce personnel cost, it will stop producing small- to medium-size LCD modules (LCMs) at its 2.5G factory in northern Taiwan at the beginning of October 2016, and devote it fully to technological R&D.

Set up in 1992, the factory currently leases half of its capacity to Sumika Technology, Japan-based Sumitomo Chemical's Taiwan subsidiary, for color filter production.

Of the factory's 265 employees, 75 will stay for R&D and the remaining can choose to relocate to EIH's other factories, retire with preferential payments, or seek outside jobs under EIH's arrangement, the company said.

EIH has talked with LCD panel makers AU Optronics (AUO) and Innolux as well as semiconductor companies, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), and Powertech Technology about the possibility of offering more than 200 job positions.