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Sharp and Foxconn Team Up to Beat Korean LCD Makers

Samsung and LG are strong rivals to have, but the two companies have high hopes for a new partnership.

Sharp has big plans and it's not about to let anyone get in the way if it can help it. One of those plans includes beating out Korean manufacturers Samsung and LG. To do that they've enlisted the help of Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn.

The way it's going to work going forward is that Foxconn is going to produce smaller LCD panels - anything between 20 and 40 inches. They're set up to do it better, cheaper and more efficiently according to Sharp.

Sharp in turn will provide Foxconn with panels 60 inches and larger - a specialty of Sharp's. A new joint venture company will make other things like components, glass and the other essentials for LCD televisions.

Source: TWICE

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Sony May Be Outsourcing High-End LCDs and Google TV

Foxconn Electronics and Wistron will be taking up the job.

It's good news if you're a fan of inexpensive electronics, but almost certainly bad if quality is at the top of your list. Sony is said to be outsourcing manufacturing of high-end LCD sets to Wistron and Foxconn, both companies based in Taiwan.

There's definitely a taboo around the idea of outsourced manufacturing, and the recent wave of suicides at Foxconn definitely doesn't bode well. Conditions have improved at Foxconn recently though, as the iPhone manufacturer has raised wages significantly.

According to DigiTimes, Foxconn will be making 15-18 million high-end LCDs including ultra thin frameless models. Wistron, which started as the manufacturing wing of Acer, will be handling the Sony Internet TV.

By 2011, around 50 percent of Sony's HDTV output will be outsourced and the other half made in-house.

Source: DigiTimes via Engadget

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