SHARP accelerate LED backlight R & D does not give up OLED products

Foreign news reported on June 24, 2008, SHARP (Sharp) at the shareholders' meeting, said, in addition to the core cause of LCD TV, the company will also actively expand the development of solar cells and LED. SHARP also pointed out that the company will LED backlight LCD TV as the next generation display, and plans to accelerate the pace of its research and development and production, to fight against Sony and other manufacturers of OLED tv.

SHARP pointed out that if the LCD TV backlight light source can be changed to LED, then the thickness reduction to the half of the cold cathode tube products; and the use of LED power consumption can be reduced to below half, a cold cathode tube CRT TV 1/4. In addition, in the 2011 year plan for Matsushita (April 2011 -2012 March) production 37 inches OLED TV issue, SHARP said, the company is also carried out for OLED related discussion, will continue to OLED product research and development work.

Source: Lean news