Sharp exiting from LCD panel production to focus on AI

[HDTV1080P]

QUOTE

"Yet another LCD panel manufacturer is exiting the game as companies based in China continue to dominate the market. Sharp President and CEO Wu Po-hsuan has confirmed that the company will be closing its 10th-generation LCD plant in Sakai, Japan, and ceasing LCD panel production altogether. Opened in 2009, the Sakai LCD plant has historically not generated enough revenue to outweigh its operating costs."

https://www.svconline.com/proav-toda...ls-focus-on-ai

[Robert Zohn]

I'm sorry to see this happen. Sharp made excellent LCD panels.

[8mile13]

Japanese Sharp has been sold to Taiwan Foxconn parent Hon Hai Precision in 2016. So it took them 8 years to get rid of LCD panel production with it being the only LCD plant factory in Japan left also...they still produce small- and medium-sized LCD panels for vehicles and tablets in Ishikawa and Mie prefectures though.

[HDTV1080P]

The industry is moving toward low, medium, and high-quality OLED flat panels and getting away from the legacy LCD panels. Unless someone comes out with something that has a better picture quality then OLED, then for the under 100-inch sizes OLED will dominate the market. However high-end DLP projectors have better motion and a overall better picture quality when compared to OLED flat panels. Therefore, people that need a picture larger then 77 inches and especially larger then 100 inches will prefer a long throw or short throw projector. Maybe one day someone might invent a OLED projector.

Both the China consumer electronic companies and Japan consumer electronic companies can coexist in competition with each other. Sometimes the Japanese making better products and sometimes Chinese making better products.

[Vilya]

I can not speak to the validity of the source that I am quoting (link below), but here it is for whatever it's worth:

"According to the research data, this year’s shipments of MiniLED TVs will be 6.8 million units, which is 0.4 million higher than the predicted OLED TV shipment for 2024."

"Researcher Melissa Wang noted that OLED TV shipments decreased by 20.6% year-on-year in 2023, while MiniLED shipments saw a growth of 24.7% year-on-year for the same period."

https://www.gizmochina.com/2024/04/0...share-in-2024/

[HDTV1080P]

Those numbers should change in the next 5 to 10 years. Unless something changes low cost OLED's should take away market share from low cost LCD displays. LCD will still be made since they are cheaper than OLED.

[Vilya]

According to the article that I linked to above, they predict this:

"MiniLED TVs are expected to get more and more popular. While OLED TV shipments are also expected to grow, MiniLED TV shipments are predicted to grow exponentially and achieve a figure more than three times bigger than its competitor."

In 2028, they predict shipment of 25.5 million mini-LED TVs to 8.5 million OLED TVs.

That's just their opinion, but consider also that in "5-10 years" we may finally have consumer-friendly priced micro-LED TVs on the market.

[8mile13]

Been talking about this stuff for years. Samsung does not like OLED because of burn-in issues. They want something that is way more burn-in resilient...like Samsung QNED. That would likely replace OLED and LCD. Microled is way to hard to bring down in price so that is not going to happen. With all of this a few innovations can turn any predictions upside down. .