Japanese electronics giant Sharp announced this week it is getting out of the TV display business, shutting down production lines in Japan and looking ... […]
People who genuinely know the display industry, and how it works, would have looked at the big announcements about plans for a huge LCD display plant in Wisconsin, and thought, “Yeah, that dog don’t hunt.” It appears they were right. The much-touted Gen 10.5 LCD factory that Foxconn said it was going to build in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin appears to have hit the skids. […]
Via Nikkei Asian Review Monster Asian technology manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has announced its funding of a newly-formed startup aimed at bringing augmented reality into digital signage. […]
Costco regulars will confirm my experience that all kinds of things turn up on the spartan shelves of the member-based warehouse retailer. But I don’t recall seeing any digital signage products for sale, as they are in Taiwan. That country’s 12 big box Costcos are selling 50-inch all-in-one kiosks, and sales results are so far beating original sales forecasts. […]
Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer, agreed to acquire Japan’s Sharp Corp for about $3.5 billion. The company that, among many things, has huge manufacturing facilities in China making iPhones, is taking roughly a two-thirds stake in the Japanese display and electronics manufacturer. […]
