This year Samsung company will Invest in Sharp in exchange for a 3.08% stake in the Japanese corporation and guarantee the supply of new shareholder LCD panels of different sizes.
As reports associate, the deal between Samsung and Sharp will help strengthen relations between Samsung and Foxconn. Recently the leadership of the latter company does not comment critically against Samsung, as has happened before. Such attacks have served to demonstrate Apple loyalty - the main customers of Foxconn, with which Samsung is very complicated relationship.
Now, the interest of Foxconn on the technology and Sharp assets are high, but a real participation in the capital of Japanese corporations is only made by Samsung, the two companies can get close to this ground. Samsung representatives have already indicated that the amount of investment in Sharp does not give us reason to interfere in the management of the Japanese manufacturer.
Samsung and Sharp, however, entails some risk for Apple . Apple buys about a third of its products used in displays from Sharp, and friendship with Samsung is against the interests of Apple company . The Korean manufacturer is now able to somehow influence the product policy Sharp, which is why the display characteristics of Japanese production will be more responsive to the needs of Samsung, than Apple.