Tagged With "SAKAI"

SAKAI, Japan—Success for Sharp Corp., newly under the control of Taiwan'sFoxconn Technology Group, may boil down in large part to whether it can stay ahead in the fast-changing technology for smartphone displays. Foxconn chief Terry Gou formally signed the $3.5 billion deal to take a controlling stake in Sharp on Saturday, in a long-delayed conclusion to talks that had left the struggling Japanese electronics maker in limbo for months. Read more: ...

OSAKA – Sharp Corp. is considering moving its headquarters to a plant in Osaka Prefecture, jointly operated with Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., which has agreed to take over the struggling electronics maker, sources close to the matter said Wednesday. The envisaged relocation within the prefecture from the city of Osaka to Sakai is designed to strengthen coordination with Hon Hai, an Apple Inc. supplier better known by its trade name Foxconn as Sharp aims to become profitable...

Foxconn to shrink size of Sharp? Article published by Jiji Press of Japan Foxconn of Taiwan (aka Hon Hai Precision) is owner of Sharp, and apparently is considering closing the Sharp plant in Sakai, Japan Plant currently makes large LCD panels “drastic measures are necessary to get out of the red” Sharp division of Foxconn may post a loss of 10 billion yen for current fiscal year

TOKYO -- Japanese electronics group Sharp and telecom partner KDDI will convert a factory site in Japan into a data center for artificial intelligence powered by advanced Nvidia chips, Nikkei has learned. Sharp and KDDI agreed Sunday to begin talks on establishing a data center joint venture with other partners including Japanese systems developer Datasection. The size of the investment and the ownership breakdown have yet to be decided. The joint venture is expected to procure around 1,000...

Sharp to sell off manufacturing plant Announced it will sell its Sakai LCD panel plant in Japan Buyer is SoftBank Japan who will convert it to an AI data center