Sharp, a key supplier of components that go into iPads and iPhones, lost $5.4 billion last year, prompting the Japanese display maker to increase its reliance on Apple's top rival, Samsung, in order ...

Update: The WSJ reports that the deal is not yet certain. Sharp may come with some potential financial risks, which Foxconn is evaluating before it actually signs the deal. Foxconn Technology Group ...

Hon Hai’s Foxconn is one of the leading assemblers of Apple’s mobile devices, including the iPhone and the iPad. On the other hand, Sharp Corp is a struggling supply chain partner for Apple and is ...

Sharp Corporation announced today that Foxconn would invest ¥389 billion in newly-issued Sharp shares to gain a 66% stake in the company. The new shares will be issued at ¥88 per share, quite a steep ...

Apple may have quietly shored up Sharp with a $2bn display order fudge, one market analyst has suggested, in an attempt to stabilize the struggling Japanese firm and reduce reliance on arch foe ...

While the Korean electronics giant says it's not going to intervene in Sharp's business management, it could end up with early insight into new tech and influence future products. And that could be a ...

Apple owns a big chunk of LCD production at a Sharp facility. Now Sharp would like it back, thank you. Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, ...

Contrary to recent reports that Apple would invest $1 billion in an LCD manufacturing plant from Sharp, industry insiders believe it's more likely that Apple is simply making an advance payment to ...

Both Foxconn-owned Sharp and Japan Display are gearing up to compete with Samsung and LG for Apple orders for OLED screens, say supply-chain sources … Samsung is currently Apple’s sole OLED panel ...

Sharp wants to buy a big part of its LCD production facilities back from Apple, but Apple has apparently indicated it will only agree to the sale if Sharp agrees not to supply displays to Samsung.

Apple is said to be in talks with Japanese electronics maker Sharp to create OLED displays for next-generation iPhones, with the ultimate outcome of the deal depending on Sharp's capacity to output a ...