On December 14, Sharp’s Chairman Katsuhiko Machida announced that the company will be investing JPY100 billion ($US877 million) on a solar cell factory that will be located in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. The solar cell factory will manufacture thin-film solar cells starting in fiscal 2009. With an annual production capacity of 1,000 million watts, Sharp’s solar [...]

Sharp has decided to develop its “manufacturing complex for the 21st Century” by pouring US$3.3 billion into a 1.27 million m2 area in Sakai City, Osaka, Japan. The site will host a state-of-the-art LCD fab and a solar cell plant. The LCD plant will be a G10-class fab that can handle glass substrates with 2850 [...]