Chuan Hon Hai, SHARP production OLED grab 8 iPhone panel orders

Japanese media reported on the 12 issue of industry news, SHARP is operating reforming (Sharp) to accept Taiwan's Hon Hai aid, greatly increased the possibility of reconstruction, and Hon Hai expect to cooperate with SHARP, grabbed the apple (Apple) is expected to be on sale in 2018 with iPhone OLED panel orders.

According to reports, Foxconn plans to use SHARP Kameyama plant plant plant idle and existing equipment to establish OLED panel production technology, after the program began with a small amount of production in mid 2017, and in addition to Kueishan factories, small and medium size panel SHARP closed in 2015, according to the "three first factory" may also be re enabled the production of OLED panel in addition, SHARP / Foxconn; common operations (soil bounded) city 10 generation panel plant also consider the use of large size OLED panel TV production.

Asahi Shimbun also pointed out that in 13 days of reports, Hon Hai after the acquisition of SHARP's global strategy summary content exposure, in addition to SHARP plans to use Foxconn panel technology grabbed the apple in 2018 started selling the iPhone OLED panel orders will also China through the leading e-commerce group Alibaba (Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.) for SHARP products open up new path.

The Asahi newspaper said, according to the relationship between sources, Hon Hai has adjusted to the table, in 2018 plans to start mass production OLED panel, and supplied to apple, but it had originally planned to Foxconn alone on the OLED panel of large investment, but there are plans to take the huge amount of funds for the acquisition of SHARP and SHARP Growth Fund. Hon Hai plans to invest 50 billion yen at the early stage of readiness test production line, after the plan hit thousands of billion yen investment OLED panel; basic technology, SHARP has started the research and development of OLED panel but no funds for large-scale investment, although with the capital and Hon Hai but the technical side of inferior, so the two sides will cooperate with complementary effect.

The Sankei Shimbun reported in December 29th last year, Hon Hai, INCJ is mainly because the scramble for SHARP, InGaZnO they are optimistic about SHARP "(Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide, referred to as IGZO) technology can also be applied to the OLED panel, the ultimate aim is to fight for the big apple (Apple).

Apple is expected in 2018 on sale iPhone began to use the OLED panel, but due to apple this trend, iPhone Display Inc Japan panel supplier (JDI), LG Display (LGD) has showed that the production of OLED panels.

LGD announced last November 27th that it will invest 1 trillion and 800 billion won ($1 billion 560 million) in the north slope of Seoul to build a new panel of OLED mobile phones, televisions, and is expected to be available in the first half of 2018, according to.

Thomson Reuters reports, OLED JDI 2018 production target panel products used in intelligent mobile phone, tablet computer, JDI next generation research center director Takimoto Akio in January 22nd at a press conference declared, "will use the JDI OLED panel excellent TFT technology development, and will do everything together, 2018 (OLED panel) commercial".

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