| 1993 |
- Markets Zaurus Personal Information Tool
- Develops wide-viewing-angle color TFT LCD technology
- Establishes Sharp Office Equipments (Changshu) Co., Ltd. (SOCC) as manufacturing and sales base in China
- Signs license agreement with Advanced RISC Machines Inc. of the UK on manufacture and sales of 32-bit microprocessors (ARM processor)
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| 1994 |
- Announces construction of world's largest TFT LCD plant in Taki, Mie Prefecture
- Increases LCD production at Sharp Microelectronics Technology, Inc. (SMT), an R&D and manufacturing base in the US5
- Establishes P.T. Sharp Yasonta Indonesia (SYI), a joint manufacturing and sales company in Indonesia to produce color TVs and refrigerators
- Develops the industry's first reflective TFT LCD requiring no backlight
- Develops world's largest, multimedia-compatible, 21-inch color TFT LCD
- Establishes Sharp Manufacturing Systems Corporation to strengthen factory automation business
- 30th anniversary of calculator development
- Markets industry's first MD/CD/radio/cassette player component system
- Achieves worldwide production of 5 million facsimiles
- Achieves worldwide production of 5 million copiers
- Achieves production of 1 million LCD ViewCams
- Announces cooperative agreement with Fujitsu Ltd. in areas of information, communications and images
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- Exchange rate hits 100 yen to the US dollar (June 27)
- Kansai International Airport opens (September 4)
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| 1995 |
- Establishes Wuxi Sharp Electronic Components Co., Ltd. (WSEC), a joint company in China for the manufacture and sales of STN LCDs
- Establishes P.T. Sharp Semiconductor Indonesia (SSI) as manufacturing base for semiconductors
- Establishes Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. (SLA) as multimedia research base in the US
- Establishes Sharp Electronics (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (SEM) as R&D base and parts supplier in Malaysia
- Joint research with AT&T of the US on next-generation videophone technology
- Joint development of MD Data drive system with National Semiconductor Corporation of the US
- Holds "'95 Sharp Multimedia Technology Exchange and Exhibit Meeting" in Beijing, China
- UK manufacturing base SUKM becomes first Japanese company to acquire BS7750 environmental management system standard of the BSI (British Standards Institute)
- Develops four next-generation LCD technologies: ultra-high-density, low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD; ultra-high-aperture TFT LCD; 13.8-inch PC interface display; and world's largest 28-inch direct-view TFT LCD
- Markets fully automatic washing machine with one-touch operation from washing to final drying
- Announces residential photovoltaic power generating system
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- Great Hanshin Earthquake (January 17)
- Sarin gas attack in Tokyo subway (March 20)
- Osaka hosts the APEC conference (November 15)
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