Year: 2021

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Acer Still Sees Strong Chromebook & Gaming Sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer reported that it May sales revenues were the best for seven years at $897 million, up 22.9% year on year. YTD sales were $4.38 billion, up 36.6% year on year. …

Tags:Acer| Chromebooks| Financial Data| Game Playing

The US NSF grants $256,000 to Amorphyx

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The US developer of amorphous metal semiconductor devices, Amorphyx, has been awarded $256K as a grant to help develop the company’s technology for driving AMOLED and microLED displays. The news was …

Tags:AMOLED| MicroLED| TFT

Quantum Dot Round-up at SID Display Week 2021

by Peter Palomaki

It has come and gone again. Display Week 2021 is in the books, although I continue to pick up a few talks here and there since they are all online for another few months. …

Tags:Mergers & Acquisitions| MicroLED| Nanosys| Phosphors| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2021

Novel LC Metalens Offers Electric Zoom

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics and Samsung’s SAIT have made a new metalens that can be focused using voltage instead of mechanically moving its components. Metalenses are …

Tags:LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Optics

Kopin Corporation Announces All-Plastic Pancake® Optics with Excellent Performance

by Artem Alekseenko

Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for defense, enterprise, consumer and medical products, announced it has succeeded in developing all-plastic Pancake® optics with breakthrough performance for virtual …

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

New NEC dvLED E and FE-E Series Completes Sharp/NEC’s LED Portfolio

by Artem Alekseenko

Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe has extended its dvLED lineup, adding the E ‘Essential’ LED prepared bundles and the ‘Fine pitch Enterprise Eco’ solutions for LED customised video walls. The new dvLED E Series …

Tags:LED| NEC| sharp| Video Walls

Plastic Logic Display Boosts OneWave’s Smart Card Cybersecurity

by Artem Alekseenko

Plastic Logic, a leader in the design and manufacture of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic displays (EPDs), is enabling OneWave to produce a universal connected smartcard with built-in user authentication that enhances cybersecurity. OneWave, started in …

Tags:Artem Alekseenko

8K Display Pricing Trend Analysis

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Chris Chinnock, wearing his 8K Association hat, has looked at the development of pricing in 8K displays, and reports that 8K has followed the general price trend of increasing prices, but …

Tags:LCD Panels| Pricing| Super Hi-Vision (8K)