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Debuts air purifier equipped with Plasmacluster Ion technology
Commercializes industry’s first camera-equipped mobile phone
Starts selling the AQUOS LCD TV
Begins mass production of System LCDs as a display for mobile phones and other mobile devices
Commences sales of a superheated steam oven, the first in home cooking appliance
Starts selling the 65-inch full-HD AQUOS LCD TV
Debuts the industry’s first LED ceiling light
Begins the world’s first mass production of LCD panel
incorporating oxide semiconductors (IGZO)
Markets a robotic home appliance
Sharp’s founder Tokuji Hayakawa testing the crystal radio set (1925)
In September 2012, Sharp marks its 100th anniversary.
Since its founding in 1912, Sharp has created numerous Japan-first and world-first products,
based on the spirit of “Make products that others want to imitate.”
Harnessing the creativity that flows through its corporate DNA, Sharp will be re-activating its
spiral strategy of devices and products.
Through the global market introduction of one-of-a-kind products that will impress and amaze,
Sharp will work to realize a new society built around electronics.
Sharp’s One-of-a-Kind History
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