[7][8] Sharp makes and has made throughout its history various different consumer electronic products, including kitchen appliances such as microwave ovens, cookers, washing machines and refrigerators; home appliances such as solar cells, vacuum cleaners, air purifiers and lighting; home and office devices such as printers, computer displays, TV sets, camcorders, VCRs, as well as calculators and various audio products such as radios, audio systems and wireless speakers.

[9][10] Sharp's net sales reached 2.55 trillion yen in fiscal year 2022 (ending 29 February 2024), according to Statista.

The product became one of the first internationally available mechanical pencils (while concurrent US design replaced it soon and became a modern type), and due to this big success the Sharp Corporation derived its name from it.

[12] After the pencil business was destroyed by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, the company relocated to Osaka and began designing the first generation of Japanese radio sets.

[citation needed] In 1953, Hayakawa Electric started producing the first Japan-made TV sets (the "Sharp TV3-14T").

The PC (Pocket Computer) series of calculators produced by Sharp in the 1980s had BASIC programmability, and had full QWERTY keyboards.

[15] Sharp's Mobile Communications Division created the world's first commercial camera phone, the J-SH04, in Japan in 2000.

However, the 2008 financial crisis and strong Yen (especially against Won) significantly lowered world demand for Japanese LCD panels.

[19] At CES 2007, Sharp introduced a prototype largest LCD TV, with a screen size of 108 inches.

The sale includes rights to use the Sharp brand name and all its channel resources in North and South America, except Brazil.

[35] It was a sign showing Sharp's rapid decline in that market, where it once was one of the leading manufacturers for LCD TVs a decade earlier.

[45] On 28 April 2017, Sharp turned its first operating profit in three years, citing the restructuring efforts by Foxconn.

[46] In June 2017, Sharp sued its Chinese licensee Hisense for damaging the reputation of its brand, seeking an exit from its licensing agreement.

Hisense denied that it engaged in these practices, and stated that it planned to defend itself in court and "will continue to manufacture and sell quality televisions under the Sharp licensed brands.

[52][53] In March 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Sharp announced it would use a TV factory with high-end clean rooms to manufacture surgical masks.

[56] Core technologies and products include LCD panels, solar panels, mobile phones, audio-visual entertainment equipment, video projectors, Multi-Function Printing Devices, microwave ovens, air conditioners, air purifiers, cash registers, CMOS and CCD sensors, and flash memory.

Recent products include the ViewCam, the Ultra-Lite notebook PC, the Zaurus personal digital assistant, Sidekick 3, and the AQUOS flat-screen television.

Sharp manufactures consumer electronic products, including LCD televisions, sold under the Aquos brand, mobile phones, microwave ovens, Home cinema and audio systems, air purification systems, fax machines and calculators.

[57] For the business market, Sharp also produces projectors and monitors and a variety of photocopiers and Laser Printers, in addition to electronic cash registers and Point of sale technologies.

The system combines automation, mobility, and a variety of monitoring and detection capabilities to extend the impact of a traditional security force.

[63] For the corporate meeting room market, Sharp was the first company to bring the Windows collaboration display to market, which is a 70-inch interactive display with built-in unified communication equipment and an IoT sensor hub for measuring environmental room conditions.

[68] In September 2014, Sharp announced that Slovakian electronics company UMC (Universal Media Corporation /Slovakia/ s.r.o.)

Vestel will sell Sharp-branded white goods (except air conditioners), such as refrigerators and microwave ovens manufactured by Sharp in Thailand and China.

Sharp will also license its brand name to Vestel for volume home appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines and ovens.

Sharp's remaining European business will then focus on the business-to-business sector including multi-function printers and energy solutions.

According to the announcement, Sharp participated in conspiracies to fix the price of TFT LCD panel for Dell's computer monitors and laptops (2001–2005), Motorola's Razr phones (2005–2006) and Apple's iPod (2005–2006).

According to the order, Sharp and Hitachi Display participated in the conspiracies to keep the price for TFT LCD panels for Nintendo DS and DS-Lite.

Greenpeace summarizes the corporation's environmental record thus: "Sharp supports a new renewable energy law in Japan but scores poor on all sustainable operations criteria".

The guide also notes that Sharp had lacked any initiative to address the issue of conflict minerals and the exclusion of paper sourced from suppliers involved in illegal logging or deforestation.