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iFixit Has a First Look at the iPad Pro XDR Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit released a short (4 minutes) video showing the start of a tear down of the iPad Pro, highlighting the XDR display and backlight. The display is around 0.5mm thicker than …

Tags:Apple| LCD Backlights| MiniLED| tablets| Teardowns

The best laptop meets the world’s best display technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on the Dell XPS13 with an optional OLED a couple of months ago. Laptop Magazine looked at the unit and reported that: The 3.5K display is ‘breathtaking’ with four …

Tags:Dell| Notebooks| OLEDs

iPad Pro Teardown Shows Sharp Increase in Taiwan Parts  

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Taiwanese suppliers have increased their share of components in the latest iPad Pro, at the expense of South Korean companies. A teardown with Fomalhaut Techno Solutions found that …

Tags:Apple| iPad| MiniLED| tablets

UHD Broadcast Adoption Stalling

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The IBC.org site published an interesting and extended article on the limited penetration of UltraHD resolution into broadcasting. The article hightlights that both SES and Eutelsat have said that their UHD …

Tags:Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD (4KTV)

China tops automotive display market in 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported, based on data from Omdia, that China is now the biggest market for automotive displays as it is now the largest the market for vehicles. LCD will remain …

Tags:Automotive| Market Data| OLEDs| Supply Chain

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European Wearable Market Showed Positive Growth in 1Q21, Says IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

In the first quarter of 2021, the wearable market in Europe grew 33.0% compared with the same period in 2020, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Between January and March, …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| IDC| Wearable Market

The iPhone 12 Mini Makes Me Sick (Literally)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in IEEE Spectrum highlights issues with OLED display flicker. Tekla S. Perry upgraded from an older iPhone SE to an iPhone 12 Mini as the smaller display was appealing. …

Tags:Apple| Human Visual System (HVS)| iPhone| warranty

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Kopin Outlines Material for Pancake Optics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kopin reported that it has developed an all-plastic ‘pancake’ optical lens system for VR, AR and MR applications. The lens system provides an image equivalent to a 250″ (635cm) diagonal display …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Kopin| Microdisplays| Mixed Reality| OLEDs| Optics| Virtual Reality

Kateeva Announces Strategic Partnership with Pixelligent

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ten days ago, Kateeva announced that it had made a deal with Pixelligent to support the use of PixJet high-refractive index materials in inkjet encapsulation of OLEDs with an optimised planarisation …

Tags:Collaboration| InkJet Deposition| OLED Materials| Optics