Year: 2021

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LG and Acer Doing Well in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG announced its preliminary results for Q1 2021 and said that revenue and operating profit increased 27.7% and 39.2%, respectively, from the same quarter the previous year and reached the highest …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| LG Electronics (LGE)

E Ink ESLs Now 4 Colour

by Bob Raikes

What They Say E Ink announced some new four colour displays under its Spectra sub-brand for use in ESLs and retail signage. SES Imagotag and Pricer are both quoted as working with E Ink …

Tags:E Ink| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Retail

Easy-to-Use Hardware Solution for Driving KOE LVDS TFT Displays

by Artem Alekseenko

Industrial LCD manufacturer KOE (Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics) has announced the introduction of an easy-to-use display interface board. KARD, which is derived from a combination of ‘KOE’ and ‘Card’, has been designed and developed to provide …

Tags:Interfaces| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| TFT

Gartner

Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Grew 32% in First Quarter of 2021

by Artem Alekseenko

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 69.9 million units in the first quarter of 2021, an increase of 32% from the first quarter of 2020, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. The market rebounded from …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Gartner| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

Gartner

Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 10.4% in 2020

by Artem Alekseenko

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $466.2 billion in 2020, an increase of 10.4% from 2019, according to final results by Gartner, Inc. “Memory, GPUs and 5G chipsets led semiconductor growth, driven by hyperscale, PC, ultramobile …

Tags:Gartner| Semiconductor Market

OLED Production to Increase 94% Y/Y in Q2 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC reported that a recovery from the pandemic, combined with strong demand for OLEDs in smartphones, TVs and other devices, and coupled with capacity increases, will lead OLED production to grow …

Tags:OLED Fabs| Small Medium Panel Supply

LTPO

DSCC Highlights LTPO and High Refresh in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an information dense blog post, DSCC picked out some highlights from its most recent report on ‘Advanced Smartphones’. It highlights the trend to higher refresh rates, which have developed from …

Tags:Apple| LTPO TFT| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

OLUM Has Cell Approach to FMM

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The ET News in Korea reported that a Korean start-up, Olum Material, has developed a new technique for shadow mask OLED deposition, replacing current fine metal masks (FMM). The company calls …

Tags:OLEDs| Vapour Deposition

LaSAR Alliance Formed to Advance Laser Scanning

by Chris Chinnock

A new industry organization has been formed called the LaSAR Alliance with the aim of bringing together a community around laser scanning technology and applications in the AR market. According the press release describing …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Laser