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2025.05.12

14:37

Market news: Sharp will sell its Kameyama Plant 2 to Foxconn before August 2026.

2025.03.14

14:36

Market news: Sharp will sell fixed assets to SoftBank for 100 billion yen.

07:50

SoftBank and OpenAI to transform former Sharp factory into data center for AI agents

SoftBank plans to convert a former Sharp LCD panel factory in Japan into a data center to run artificial intelligence (AI) agents jointly developed with OpenAI, Nikkei reported without specifying its sources. The agreement to acquire the factory and land is expected to be signed as early as Friday, and the purchase price is expected to be about 100 billion yen.

04:08

According to Nikkei: SoftBank and OpenAI will previously operate artificial intelligence agents for Sharp LCD factories.

2024.12.10

22:21

Sharp and KDDI reach consensus on launching AI data center in 2025

On December 9, Sharp announced that it had reached a consensus with Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI to strive to fully launch the AI data center transformed from the Sakai factory in 2025. The consultations between four companies, including Datasection, which is engaged in system development and outsourcing, and Supermicro of the United States, will end. The four companies reached a consensus in June this year to coordinate the establishment of an operating company and the purchase of graphics processing units (GPUs) for generative AI learning and inference. Regarding the old site of the Sakai factory, Sharp is also negotiating with SoftBank on the establishment of a data center. SoftBank strives to put it into use in 2026, and the two sides are negotiating.

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