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GIS To Invest in Touch for OLEDs

by Milos Pavlovic

General Interface Solution (GIS), which is a member of the Foxconn group, plans to invest $750 million in a new factory in Chengdu, China, apparently with a plan to become a supplier to Apple …

Foxconn Sends iPhones for Launch

by Milos Pavlovic

Chinese sources say that Foxconn consigned 371,000 units of the latest iPhones through customs in Henan province, China, for shipment in the US, UK, the Netherlands and Italy. Analyst Comment As we went to …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Foxconn Chooses NetRange for Smart TV Ecosystems

by Isaac Oburu

Foxconn, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics manufacturers, will equip its TV devices with white label smart TV portal solutions from German technology and software development company NetRange. As part of the collaboration, …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Smart TV

China Clears Way for Foxconn/Sharp Deal

by Tom Allen

The Sharp/Foxconn merger has been approved by China’s anti-monopoly authorities, completing the final stage of regulatory reviews in the $3.8 billion deal. Foxconn said in a statement that it and Sharp ‘will now move …

Revenue Down for Most Taiwanese Panel Makers

by Tom Allen

We have amalgamated revenue figures for Taiwanese panel makers in July 2016, below. AUO‘s revenues slipped 2.3% MoM and 2% YoY, to NT$26.8 billion ($865 million). The firm shipped more than 9 million large …

Foxconn Snaps Up Microsoft Mobile Plant

by Tom Allen

Chief Expertise, a Foxconn subsidiary, has purchased 100% of Microsoft Mobile (Vietnam), for VND492 billion ($22 million). The company plans to produce mainly feature phones at the facility in Bac Ninh, according to a …

Tags:APAC| Foxconn (Honhai)| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 27

Hannstar Only Panel Maker Showing Annual Rise

by Tom Allen

June revenue figures have now been released by several of Taiwan’s panel makers. AUO was up 2.6% MoM but fell 10.1% YoY, to NT$27.5 billion ($853.8 million). Consolidated revenues for Q2 reached NT$80.1 billion …

Foxconn Subsidiary Takes Stake in AIS

by Tom Allen

Foxconn subsidiary Ennoconn Corporation has acquired a 60% stake in American Industrial Systems (AIS). Ennoconn intends to use the acquisition to compete in the industrial IoT market.

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 26

Gou: Sharp Will Produce OLEDs in 2017

by Tom Allen

Credit: NikkeiThe Nikkei has said that Sharp will begin to ship OLED panels next year. Foxconn chairman Terry Gou made the statements at the annual shareholder briefing.

Foxconn Plans Big Changes for Sharp

by Tom Allen

Foxconn chairman Terry Gou has said that his company will “carry out a series of measures to help Sharp make a turnaround as soon as possible,” after officially joining the board in July. Gou …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 24

Taiwanese Makers Are Up and Down

by Tom Allen

Chunghwa Picture Tubes reported revenues up 2.4% MoM, but down 11.7% YoY in May. The firm made NT$3.3 billion ($101 million), and shipped 75,000 large panels (up 73.3% QoQ and 8.3% YoY). Small- to …

Foxconn Reduces Workforce Through the Use of Robots

by Norbert Hildebrand

As reported by the South China Morning Post and others, Foxconn in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, has reduced its workforce in one factory from 110,000 to 50,000 through the increased use of robots. In a …