Sharp and Toshiba have agreed to collaborate closely in their LCD and semiconductor businesses.
The electronics giants will initiate the partnership in fiscal 2008, which they hope will allow each company to make full and effective use of its respective strengths and resources.
This will include Sharp's capabilities in LCDs and Toshiba's expertise in advanced semiconductors.
The alliance will start with an expansion of reciprocal procurement, whereby Sharp will get system large-scale integration chips (LSIs) for LCDs from Toshiba, and Toshiba will obtain Sharp's LCD modules for TVs of 32in and larger.
Sharp aims to satisfy about 50 per cent of its total demand for system LSIs for TVs in fiscal 2010, while Toshiba aims to meet 40 per cent of its demand for LCD modules in the same year.
Sharp et Toshiba se sont mis d’accord pour une étroite collaboration dans leur domains de LCD et semi-conducteurs.
Les ventes des produits électroniques ont plus que doublée durant ces dernières années en Chine. La classe moyenne chinoise devient de plus en plus influente.
Les lecteurs multi médias ont vu leurs ventes tripler jusqu’à 590000 unités au cours des 6 premiers mois de 2007. Les ventes de Télés Ecrans Plats ont quant à elles doublées pour atteindre les 3,3 millions d’unités.
Les produits électroniques les plus vendus sont : les appareils photos numériques, les lecteurs Mp3 mais concernent moins les ordinateurs ou bien les téléphones ou jeux vidéos.
De plus en plus d’aides gouvernementales sont mises en place afin d’aider les usines dans leur recherches et de les rendre encore plus compétitives.
La Chine est donc en pleine expansion de consommation.
Digital camera shipments rose 118 per cent in the first half of 2007, according to a new report from the Japan-based Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA), which represents firms responsible for approximately 80 per cent of global sales.
CIPA reported a total of slightly more than 164 million cameras shipped during the six months from January to June. Growth in shipments of more expensive digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras was particularly strong, reaching 145.5 per cent.
“Digital camera shipment volume rose 38.9 year-on-year to 7,570,000 units in June 2007, while shipment value rose 33 per cent year-on-year to 164.1bn yen [$1.387bn],” commented Tokyo-based Nomura Securities analyst, Tetsuya Wadaki
“Growth picked up again in Japan and Europe and remained strong in North America,” said Wadaki. According to CIPA, European growth of Digital SLR shipments approached 170 per cent in June, and averaged more than 140 per cent over the first half of the year.
CIPA, an industry-sponsored association, collects data on camera production and shipments from members, who include Japan's leading camera vendors, as well as some foreign firms. The figures include both domestic and foreign production. While CIPA's membership controls approximately 80 per cent of the global digital camera market, a rising percentage of Japanese-branded cameras are in fact made by suppliers in China and Taiwan.
Huaxia Times reports that South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung will close two LCD monitor factories in Southern China to mainly focus on its production base in Tianjin.
Samsung will reportedly close the two LCD factories, which are located in Zhongshan and Huizhou, and put its emphasis on the Tianjin factory. But a representative from Samsung has declined to give more details and says this is the company's business secret.
Samsung's LCD monitor output was reportedly 230,000 in September, which declined by 14.8% compared with that of August. Samsung is rumored to instead mainly focus on middle and high end monitors that yield higher gross profit, after the shutdown of the two factories.
Chinese color television industry's first LCD production
line has been formally put into operation at Hisense, one of the major
television manufacturers in China.
The production line put into operation this time features
an annual capacity of 500,000 liquid crystal modules ranging from 15 inches to
42 inches. Liu Hongxin, general manger of Hisense Electrical, tells local media
that this is only the first step of their plan, and the company hopes to set up
five such production lines with a total investment of RMB700 million by 2009
and achieve an annual capacity of 3 million TVs.
This move should not only bring a change to China's
dependence on foreign LCDs, but also help the Chinese color TV industry to
effectively reduce their costs. However, with the operation of this LCD line,
the competition in the home appliance industry will also become even fiercer.
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