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10K Facebook Employees Working on AR/VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information reported that nearly a fifth of Amazon’s global workforce are working on AR and VR projects and that 17% of employees are in the AR/VR division, up 5% from …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Investment| Virtual Reality

Qualcomm struggles to meet chip demand for Samsung

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reports that Qualcomm is ‘struggling to keep up with demand’. Samsung is said to be short of enough APUs for its mid-range and low end smartphones. Qualcomm is said to …

Tags:Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Smartphones

Corning Sees Good Revenue from Automotive Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Corning took part in a conference reported by Seeking Alpha and said that it thought there were potential revenues of up to $25 per car from glass used in instrument panels …

Tags:Automotive| Corning| Glass

Samsung Display Considers Expanding Notebook OLED Production

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec in Korea reports a talk given in Korea by UBI Research has said that he thinks that Samsung Electronics is unlikely to use QD-OLED for its TVs. Instead, it …

Tags:Investment| OLED Fabs| QD OLEDs| QNED| Samsung

New IGNIS Automated Optical Inspection System (AOIS)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A hat-tip to OLED-info which spotted that image compensation developer, Ignis, has a new optical system that can be used to apply its MaxLife compensation technology to repair or recalibrate OLEDs …

Tags:MicroLED| OLEDs

Kyocera to shutter Chinese automotive LCD plant

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Kyocera is to shut down a plant, originally opened by Optrex in 1997 in Jiangsu province in China that has been making STN displays valued at around $28 …

Tags:Automotive| China| LCD Fabs| Reorganisation & Restructuring