One of the two suppliers of the iPhone screen has announced its intention to seek new customers, particularly among manufacturers of modest size. The goal is to be less dependent on sales of Apple's smartphone.
In an interview with Reuters, Shuichi Otsuka, head of Japan Display, a major panel manufacturers of small and medium sizes, announced its desire to diversify. The main objective: to increase the group's results to reach 800 billion yen in sales for fiscal 2014 (ended March 31), against 500 billion yen in fiscal 2013 (ended March 31, 2013 ). His target: the manufacturers of smartphones and tablets small, it has also started to make the fourth quarter of 2012 to preserve its turnover.
Japan Display is a company created in April 2012 through the merger of the "display" of three major Japanese electronics, Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba. With LG Display Japan is one of the suppliers Apple screen. And it is precisely that Apple is singled out. Since the end of 2012, Apple has canceled a major order screen. Consequence: Japan Display felt should announce huge losses at the end of its fiscal year. Of course, Shuichi Otsuka does not name his client. But this desire to find other customers is a sign that no longer wishes to be so dependent on one large customer. It is therefore perhaps more so good that to be a supplier of Apple ...
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