Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 9:29 (GMT+99)
Sharp’s new LCDs from World’s Biggest LCD factory
Filed under: TV, HDTV & 3D, Corporate | by :ryan |
Bloomberg.com: Sharp Corp. has today announced 6 new Aquos brand TVs which will come in 42, 46 and 52-inch models. The new sets will be available worldwide from October and are all high-definition.
Sharp’s new models are made at their ’No. 2 Kameyama’ factory - the world’s biggest LCD television factory. The factory, located in central Japan, cuts screens from the industry’s biggest glass sheets, reducing unit costs.
The facility, the world’s first eighth-generation LCD plant, produces glass panels equivalent to 120,000 40-inch televisions a month, which may be enough to help Sharp regain the first-place market share it lost to Sony Corp. last quarter. The later generation a factory is, the bigger glass it can handle.
The opening of their new factory gives Sharp a head start on Sony, which plans to start its first eighth-generation LCD factory in November 2007.
Sharp has said it lost the No. 1 spot last quarter because it couldn’t make its Aquos televisions fast enough.
The company’s share of global LCD TV sales fell to 10.8 percent in the quarter ended June 30, from 12.8 percent in the previous three months, according to industry research firm DisplaySearch. Sony grabbed a 16 percent slice in the period.
Sony introduced 11 new models yesterday, including its biggest LCD television in Japan, a 52-inch Bravia model.
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