TOKYO, Feb. 22 -- Oki Electric Industry is buying Texas Instruments' (TI's) large-size thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (LCD) driver operations, the companies announced last week. Under the agreement, TI plans to complete the transfer of the Japan-based semiconductor product line to Oki by the end of March. About 50 employees from TI's operations in Japan will transfer to Oki, based in Tokyo. Oki will take ownership of the business, which designs integrated circuits that drive LCD displays with a diagonal size of five inches or more. 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