Sharp Corp.

History

Year	Detail
1912	The company was founded.
1914	The company moved to Hayashi-cho, Honjo-ku, Tokyo.
1920	Established a branch factory in Oshiage, Tokyo.
1926	Began export of radio sets and components to China, Southeast Asia, India, and South America.
1929	Launched AC vacuum-tube radios.
1942	Changed the company name to Hayakawa Electric Co. Ltd.
1948	Established Sharp Shoji.
1956	Spin off sales division to establish Sharp Electric Co.
1958	Sharp Electric merges with Hayakawa Dengyo.
1962	Established Sharp Electronics Corp. in the U.S.
1963	Established Sharp Tokyo product center.
1967	Sharp Electric absorbed into Hayakawa Electric.
1970	Changed the company name to Sharp Corp.
1975	The company began mass production of color TVs at SCA in Australia.
1985	Established Sharp Trading Corp.
1992	Established Sharp Thebnakom Manufacturing (Thailand) (STTM) as the production division of STCL.
1995	Began operations at Mie Plant for mass production of LCDs.
2001	Established S.I. Solutions jointly with IBM Japan.
2011	Established HEMS Alliance with nine other companies.
2023	Sharp and Huawei signed a long-term global patent cross-licensing agreement that covers Cellular Standard Essential Patents, including 4G and 5G.
2024	Sharp and Xiaomi signed a patent cross-license agreement on wireless communication technologies.