Year: 2021

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The State of the PC Industry

by Jon Peddie

The PC industry has been on a rollercoaster ride for the past decade or longer: up, down, up, down, up. In 2010, when Paul Otellini was Intel’s CEO, he forecast robust growth for the …

Tags:GPUs| Graphics Cards| Market Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| tablets

TV Households

Research: Over 8m TV sets sold in UK in 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced Television interviewed Futuresource Consulting about the UK TV set market which it calculates at 8 million sets in 2020. The firm interviewed buyers in June 2020 and found that the …

Tags:Market Data| TV Set Market| UK (United Kingdom)

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump

by Bob Raikes

What They Say To the surprise of nobody in the display analyst community, we suspect, Reuters reported that Foxconn has formally acknowledged that its planned ‘Wisconsin project’, backed by ex-President Trump, will not be …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large LCD Supply| USA

HTC Vive Air VR Fitness is ‘Only a Concept’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A concept for a new ‘Air’ headset developed by HTC has been leaked after appearing in a Design Guide. It has up to four cameras and was conceived to be light …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality

Toyota Moves Instruments in Console

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Toyota made a big announcement about its future plans for 70 electric and electrified vehicles by 2025. We noticed the interesting change in the instrument display in the bZ4X SUV concept. …

Tags:Automotive

barco

Barco Reveals Q1 Progress

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Barco reported its results for Q1 2021 and saw a boost of 21% in orders compared to Q4 2020 and up 10% compared to a year ago to €228.9 million. Sales …

Tags:Barco| Financial Data

iPadPro

Apple Brings XDR MiniLED Technology to the iPad

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Apple held an event to launch a number of non-iPhone (mainly) products that featured: New iPad Pros with a miniLED ‘Liquid Retina XDR’ display and using its own M1 chip A …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Apple| HDR - High Dynamic Range| MiniLED| Streaming Dongles| tablets

Ion Exchange Used to Make Perovskite LEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from the AMOLF lab of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have developed a new way of creating a reactive ink based on perovskites. The material is created by ‘painting’ …

Tags:PeLED (Perovskite LED)| R&D (Research & Development)

JOLED Panel Reseller Revealed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Review Display Systems has started selling the new 22″, 27″ and 32″ UltraHD inkjet OLED panels from JOLED. The company is also expecting to have a 14″ FullHD panel, later. Colour …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| JOLED| OLEDs