Japan's LCD TV and LCD panel giant -- SHARP, widely recognized as the "father of LCD", suffered a huge loss of 222.347 billion yen (about 11.5 billion yuan) in fiscal year 2014. Sharp has posted big losses in three of the past four years.

Abstract: China's smartphone market shipped about 97.9 million units in the second quarter of 2019, down 6.1% year on year, according to the latest quarterly tracking report released by IDC.