Go To Latest Video ReviewsSony Investing Over ¥100 Billion in Sharp LCD Production
| Author | Hugo Jobling |
| Published | 28th Jul 2009 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersSure, Sony's ¥22 billion investment in OLED development was impressive, but full-scale production of OLED TVs is a way off yet, which is presumably why Sony feels confident committing over ¥100 billion (£641 million) of investment into a joint venture with Sharp, manufacturing LCD panels.
The end result will be a ¥380 billion LCD panel factory of which it was previously reported Sony plans to take a 34 per cent stake in and while the full details of the deal are apparently still being worked out, Sony's initial investment is likely to be in the ¥50-60 billion region, rising to that ¥100 billion plus total later. As a result of its investment Sony will secure a supply of panels for its next generation LCD TVs while Sharp obviously receives a not-insignificant financial assistance in the establishment of the panel production plant. Apparently the deal should have been finalised last month but, as a result of the economic downturn, was delayed. Given the costs involved that's hardly surprising.
The resulting plant - sited in Sakai, western Japan for the curious - will be the world's first to use 10th generation glass substrates. The larger size of these makes per-panel production costs lower, which will hopefully result in cheaper TVs for us consumers.
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Max Power said on 28th July 2009
Hugo said on 28th July 2009
Conversion is my fault for not looking closer at the wolfram alpha output - http://www17.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%C2%A5100bn - didn't notice it was converting Chinese Yuan, ... more
Max Power said on 28th July 2009
Hugo, it seems unlikely that I'll discuss the matter any further than I already have, but I have a massive proven track record with this kind of stuff... Not over here of cour... more
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Err, you seem to have a case of misconversion...
100bn JPY = 631m GBP
Also knowing a bit about the situation, the article has it wrong, the minimum in... more