Plans For Foxconn’s Wisc. Plant Change Again
Former President Donald Trump’s proclaimed “the 8th wonder of the world,” looks more like an overstated blunder with news this week that the originally promised massive U.S. display panel and electronics assembly campus in Wisconsin has been scaled back to something much more pedestrian. Taiwan-based…
Foxconn Electronics Plant Gets Nixed On Tax Credits For 2019
The Foxconn Technology Group’s Wisconsin manufacturing campus, once proposed as the site of a massive new television production factory, will not be receiving any state tax credits for work done in 2019, according to reports citing a decision by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. The…
Report: Sharp To Split Off Display Business, Pursue MicroLED
Sharp is planning to split-off its display business on October 1 into a wholly owned subsidiary called Sharp Display Technology (SDT), according to a recent report on Japanese web site SankeiBiz. According to the report relayed by Korean business news site, The Elec Wednesday, Sharp…
Report: Samsung To Source LCD Panels From Sharp For TVs
Global TV market share leader Samsung is reportedly calling upon an old resource for LCD panels as it shuts down internal panel production through it Samsung Display manufacturing unit that is shifting focus to hybrid quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED), MicroLED panels and other technologies for…
Sharp Pushes Back U.S. TV Re-launch Plans To 2021
Sharp Corp., now under majority control of Foxconn, will not be using CES 2020 to launch a new Sharp branded television line in the United States this year, a top executive with the company’s U.S. sales operations told HD Guru. “We’re not announcing any plans…
WiSA Wireless Audio Group Adds 2 More TV Makers
The Wireless Speaker and Audio Association (WiSA) LLC, which was founded by Summit Wireless Technologies, announced two additional global television companies/brands have joined its alliance, making for a total of six TV brands in a field of more than 60 members overall. The new television…
Hisense Acquires Toshiba TV Assets For $113.6M
Hisense Electric, a wholly owned subsidiary of China-based Hisense Group, revealed Tuesday that it will purchase certain television assets of Japan’s Toshiba Corp., including TV production, brand, R&D and operation service, effective Nov. 14, 2017. Under the deal, Hisense will purchase 95 percent stock…
Could Your Next TV Be U.S. Made?
Last month, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), the Taiwan-based company that now holds controlling interest in Sharp Electronics, sent out a teasing message that it might be interested in building a large-screen LCD panel manufacturing operation in the United States. At the time,…
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