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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)

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

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