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Sharp's Japan Play Doesn't Bode Well for Wisconsin
The U.S. state increasingly looks like being squeezed out by Foxconn adding capacity elsewhere.
Breaking ground or getting buried?
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Sharp Corp. buying all or parts of Japan Display Inc. could bring more bad news for Wisconsin's hopes of hosting a world-class display factory.
That’s because Osaka-based Sharp is actually owned by Foxconn Technology Group, the Taiwanese iPhone assembler that at one point said it would invest $10 billion to build a leading-edge 10.5-generation liquid crystal display plant in the U.S. state, a battleground that is key to President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.