SHARP will fade LCD business specializing in high-end products

August 28th news, according to the "daily economic news" reported that the Nanjing SHARP electronics company (Xia Puhe Nanjing Panda Electronics joint venture) who asked not to disclose the names of the officials said that SHARP is considering pulling out of its overseas (Japan) the mainstream LCD business, which specializes in high-end display and LCD tv.

Daily economic news also quoted sources as saying that AOC technology, AOC technology has not received orders from SHARP. AOC technology to provide mainstream SHARP LCD products.

An industry source said in an interview with DigiTimes, SHARP is considering to withdraw from the mainstream display business is not surprising, because most of its production of high-end display applications, these displays are with television receiving function, is classified as a TV rather than display.

The Daily Economic News quoted the DisplaySearch data reported that last year, SHARP LCD display in the global sales of 300 thousand units, half of which are sold to the Japanese market.

DisplaySearch data also show that the first quarter of this year, SHARP is the world's biggest LCD TV manufacturers, sales of nearly 659000, according to the sales revenue, its market share by 21% in the fourth quarter of last year increased to 23%.