Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays – the lower-cost, lower performance colour displays – at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas, Washington. It already makes black and white displays in the US, but demand for notebook personal computers with colour displays is growing, and Sharp says it would rather make these locally than export them from Japan, where they are still subject to perverse US anti-dumping duties. It says it plans to start US production within two years.
