“Apple will work closely with Sharp for iPad screens”

Apple could be an agreement with the Japanese manufacturer Sharp have concluded for the delivery of schermpanelen for the iPad. In addition, would Apple have a large amount of money is going to invest in the production facilities of Sharp in Japan.

That reports The Wall Street Journal. According to the newspaper delivers Sharp currently schermpanelen for Apples iPhone and in future, also for the iPad. The expectation is that Apple in the first half of 2012, a new iPad announced, with a much higher resolution than the iPad 2. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple also invest heavily to the production capacity at Sharp to expand.

That investment, however, would be quite far-reaching, reports Businessweek. According to analyst Peter Misek, which relies on interviews with several Japanese companies, wants Apple manufacturing facility of Sharp practical to take on and manage. The American company would be between 500 million and 1 billion dollars to invest in the necessary machinery and equipment. That facility should not be just for iPhone and iPad screens be used; Apple would be the panels from Sharp also want to use it in a own television.

There are going to be for years, rumors that Apple with it’s own tv, but recently that became stronger. In the biography of Steve Jobs, the deceased Apple frontman had big plans for a private television. The development would be led by Jeff Robbin, one of the developers of the first iPod and the man behind iTunes. Apple would plan to use the Siri voice control that the iPhone 4S introduced, also in television.