Another Economic Casualty: Sharp and Sony delay LCD venture
January 29, 2009 by Derek
The economy (and rising yen) has claimed another venture: a partnership between Sharp and Sony on a series of new LCD HDTV’s (kind of like LG and Philips were getting hitched together recently). It’s really not that big of a deal at this point, as both companies are pretty independent selling their own panels at this point.
They were scheduled to join together in a new factory that would have produced over 70,000 large LCD panels per month, with Sharp owning 2/3 of the venture, and Sony the other 1/3.
The venture has now been pushed back to March 2010, but who knows if that will end up happening at this point.
