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About Sharp

The many years of innovation and ingenuity has proved that Sharp Corporation is among the best in manufacturing high-quality electronics products.

Founded in 1912, Sharp Corporation is a Japanese electronics manufacturer which takes its name from one of its founder's first inventions, the Ever-Ready Sharp mechanical pencil, which was invented by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1915. After the pencil business was destroyed by the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, the company relocated to Osaka and started designing the first Japanese radio sets. These went on sale in 1925. In 1953 it started production of the first television sets in Japan. Other notable achievements include the world's first all-transistor desktop calculator in 1964 and the first LCD calculator in 1973. LCD technology continues to be a key part of Sharp's product range, in both the component and the consumer-appliance sides of the business.

Among the core technologies are definitely pioneering, the products are avant-garde with like of: solar panels, mobile phones, audio-visual entertainment equipment, LCD panels, projectors, photocopiers, microwave ovens, cash registers, CMOS and CCD sensors, and flash memory. Notably, the first commercial cameraphone was also made by Sharp for the Japanese market in November 2000. As a semiconductor maker, Sharp is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders and among the Top 100 R&D Spenders in a list published by the IEEE Spectrum magazine.

New products are in the offing at present, like the ViewCam, the Ultra-Lite notebook PC, the Zaurus personal digital assistant, Sidekick 3, and the Aquos flat screen television.

As it staffs about 46,000 employees, half of it live outside Japan. It operates from 64 branches in 30 countries while the products are distributed to 164 countries worldwide. As many of its regional subsidiaries trade tuck under the name "Sharp Electronics."