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Foxconn Looking to Strong First Quarter

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Foxconn had a good 2021, with revenues up 12% year on year to $210 billion with profits of $4.9 billion. Smart consumer products logged the highest revenue contribution ratio at 54%, …

Tags:Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| Supply Chain| Ukraine

Foxconn Hit by Covid Restrictions in China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Foxconn has shutdown its facility in Shenzen after Chinese authorities imposed a partial lockdown due to a rise in Covid-19 cases, Nikkei reported. There were reported to be 60 new infections …

Tags:China| Covid-19| Foxconn (Honhai)

Japan’s Sharp bets on VR hardware as ‘metaverse’ takes off

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Sharp is beginning to benefit from the work it has done over time to develop displays for VR, especially since the Foxconn takeover in 2016. The Nikkei reported …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| sharp| Virtual Reality

Sharp CEO Tai steps down after 6-year turnaround under Foxconn

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Sharp CEO Tai Jeng-Wu will step down at the end of March after 6 years in the post following his appointment by Foxconn founder Terry Gou. His successor …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Recruitment & Appointments| sharp

Compal halts Taiwan production Because of Omicron

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Compal Electronics, a supplier to Dell and Amazon among others and the 2nd largest contract maker of notebooks , is halting production at its factory in Pingzhen in …

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Sharp connects with Roku to re-enter TV market in U.S.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Sharp will re-enter the US TV market in the spring of 2022 with a range of 50″ to 75″ LCD TVs built around the Roku OS and assembled …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Roku| sharp| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

SDP Global to Supply Innolux with Panels from Its Gen 10.5 Fab

by Barry Young

Terry Gou has big ideas. In 1974,he founded Foxconn, now China’s largest private employer and exporter assembling the largest share of iPhone and hundreds of other products. But he wanted to move up the …

Tags:AUO| China| Foxconn (Honhai)| Innolux| LCD Fabs| sharp

Global OEM TV Shipments rise 16.5% in 1H21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes quoted data from AVC Revo on the shipments of TVs in the first half of the year by OEMs which it rates at 45.9 million up 16.5%. The three biggest …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Market Data| ODMs & OEMs| TPV (TP Vision)| TV Set Market

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump

by Bob Raikes

What They Say To the surprise of nobody in the display analyst community, we suspect, Reuters reported that Foxconn has formally acknowledged that its planned ‘Wisconsin project’, backed by ex-President Trump, will not be …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large LCD Supply| USA

Links Week Ending 23rd April 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Previewing Q1’21 Display Supplier Earnings – What …

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Foxconn Developing microLED AR smart glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Foxconn is developing microLED-based AR smart glasses with Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSRL) as part of a three year ITRI project. The EOSRL devices are said …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Foxconn (Honhai)| MicroLED