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LG To Close Mobile Phone Business Worldwide

by Artem Alekseenko

LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced that it is closing its mobile business unit. The decision was approved by its board of directors earlier. LG’s strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Phones| Smartphones

LG Out of the Smartphone Business

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As expected, today LG’ Electroncs’ board of directors decided to quit the smartphone business, although the existing inventory will be sold and there will be on-going support for hardware and software. …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Smartphone Market

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UDC and LG Display Extend Their Deal

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UDC and LG Display have extended their long term OLED Technology License and Material Purchase Agreements for a further five years. UDC pointed out that the companies have had agreements for …

Tags:Financial Data| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Materials| UDC

LCD Panel Price Increase – Implications for the TV Market

by Sweta Dash

Large LCD panel prices have been continuously increasing for last 10 months due to an increase in demand and tight supply. This has helped the LCD industry to recover from drastic panel price reductions, …

Tags:Glass| Large LCD Supply| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)

Immersive Images Using LEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to my good friend Alfred Poor for the heads-up on a new LED display, described as ‘holographic’, but of course, it’s not. The Dragon O display uses a kind …

Tags:LED| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Museums & Exhibitions| Theme Parks and Amusements

Echo Show Motion Features Released to Developers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Protocol newsletter wrote an interesting article about the motion features that are in the Echo Show 10 smart speaker from Amazon. Amazon said that it worked back from a desire …

Tags:Amazon| Voice Input

Samsung Doesn’t Want to Explain its Drivers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on a release by Samsung that talked about new miniLED driving chips, the S6LP441 and S6LDMB1. (Samsung Promotes new MiniLED Controller Architecture). The chips are not listed on the …

Tags:Display Drivers| Semiconductors

BOE and Himax Announce an Electric Vehicle Design Win

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Himax Technologies and BOE Varitronix put out a press release saying that they had collaborated to “secure a flexible AMOLED automotive display solution design-win with a leading new energy vehicle (“NEV”) …

Tags:Automotive| BOE| Display Drivers| Optics