Sharp's Cutting-Edge Fab
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LCD TV leader plans to do its competitors one better.
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Plan to buy each others' kit Sharp and Toshiba have agreed to work together on the development of their LCD TV product lines.â¦
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Sharp is planning on 10 percent profit growth this fiscal year by increasing LCD production and TV sales in China.
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Sharp Corp  said on Tuesday it aims for 10 percent profit growth in the year starting in April as it brings forward a planned capacity expansion at its flagship LCD panel plant and drives LCD TV sales in China.
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Sharp Corp  said it would launch  a Blu-ray high-definition DVD recorder with a 1-terabyte hard  disk drive (HDD), the world's largest storage capacity on any  Blu-ray recorder, as it competes with the HD DVD camp. Sharp,  along with Sony Corp  and Panasonic maker Matsushita  Electric Industrial Co , promotes Blu-ray optical disc  technology, while Toshiba Corp  and Microsoft Corp   back the rival HD DVD format.
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Sharp released five new HD recorders capable of holding up to the equivalent of 40 Blu-ray disks. The recorders also have a high-speed photo trasfer system that allows downloads from cell phones and digital cameras for display on large-screen HD TVs.
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Leading electronics maker Sharp said interim net profit rose 40.7 percent to a record high on robust sales of liquid crystal display TVs and camera-equipped cellphones but it cautioned on the outlook due to the possible impact of high oil prices on global economic growth.
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In time for holiday shopping, Sharp will launch in Japan next month its first new Blu-ray Disc recorders in three years.
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The Sharp Corp. of Japan has developed the world&#39;s largest liquid crystal display (LCD) color television. The television has a 65-inch screen, far bigger than the 45 inches that
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Sharp's Triple Directional Viewing LCD allows folks to view three different full-screen images at the same time.
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Sharp has begun mass production of blue-laser diodes at a new factory in Japan -- a move that should help reduce the cost of Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD players.
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(InfoWorld) - Sharp raised the bar for high-definition LCD (liquid crystal display) screens this week with the demonstration of 64-inch prototype with a resolution of 4,096 pixels by 2,160 pixels -- four times higher than current high-definition displays. The screen, the first such prototype developed by Sharp, was on display this week at the Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan. While projection display systems have been developed that can match the resolution of Sharp's latest prototype, this is the first time that an LCD has been produced with a resolution this high, said Toshiyuki Matsumara, a company spokesman. The Sharp prototype's resolution tops that of a screen demonstrated last year by Taiwan's Chi Mei Optoelectronics. That display, unveiled last year in Yokohama, Japan, measured 56 inches across the diagonal and had a resolution of 3,840 pixels by 2,160 pixels. Sharp developed the prototype display to keep up with changes in the motion picture industry, Matsumara said. As studios move from film to digital media, resolutions will go higher and displays will need to keep up, he said. Prototype display technologies have been a highlight of this year's Ceatec exhibition. Toshiba Corp. and Canon Inc. demonstrated a television with a 55-inch SED (surface-conduction electron-emitter display) screen. The screens, which offer higher contrast and lower power consumption than other flat-panel technologies, will enter production next year. Japan's public broadcaster, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), showed a system it calls Super Hi-Vision that offers a 16:9 aspect ratio picture with 4,320 horizontal lines -- double that of Sharp's prototype. The NHK system, which has been demonstrated before, is still under development.
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Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. said Tuesday that it was aiming for a double-digit surge in sales of flat-panel televisions in the coming fiscal year helped by rapid growth in the Chinese market.
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Eyeing up that juicy steak but worried about your waistline? Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. said it has developed a new fat-busting microwave oven that can melt some of your worries away.
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Okay, non-interview stuff first. I've recently picked up several 'shortcuts' from O'Reilly and Addison-Weseley.  I love this format.  For about 10 bucks, you can get a PDF only copy of a 50-100 page "book".  The shortcuts (so far at least) have been very focused, which allows them to cover a reasonable topic in sufficient depth without creating a monstrous 600+ page tome.  The shortcuts I've looked at so far have been timely, useful, and a great value.  October marks the beginning of Apress' push into Ruby and Ruby on Rails.    Apress also has Practical OCaml coming out soon to help soothe your inner functional programmer.  Now, on to interview news!
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Blu-ray, HD DVD component dearth coming to an end? Sharp has begun mass-producing blue-laser diodes, a move that may help alleviate the current dearth of this critical component for Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD drives.â¦
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Sharp Corp. has added a hard-disk drive to its latest Zaurus PDA (personal digital assistant), and is considering selling the Linux operating system-based device abroad, the company said Friday.