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Gartner Says Global Smartphone Sales Grew 6% in 2021

by Artem Alekseenko

Worldwide smartphone sales grew 6% in 2021, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales rebounded in the first half of 2021, following a 12.5% decline in 2020. Previous year’s lower smartphone sales because of COVID-19 …

Tags:Apple| Gartner| Samsung| Smartphone Market

PetaRay launches metaverse AR technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that PetaRay is a new optics engine developer that claims to have AR light field technology designed to resolve vergence/accomodation conflict (VAC) issues. PetaRay said its optical engine for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Light Field Displays| Micro Projectors| Taiwan

Zytronic Gives Taiwanese Integrated Display Manufacturer the Magic Touch

by Artem Alekseenko

Advanced display manufacturer Innolux had been searching for different haptic solutions for its touch displays to enrich the user experience. Until the company engaged with Zytronic’s Taiwanese representative Chris Su, the Innolux engineering team …

Tags:Innolux| Taiwan| Touch Displays

‘World’s smallest 3-chip DLP with 20,000lm’ Announced

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Panasonic has a new 3-chip DLP projector that is claimed to be the smallest and lightest unit of this class with 20,000 Ansi lumens of output. The PT-RQ25K is said to …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Panasonic

Promethean Stays Top of the Global IFPD Sales League

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting Futuresource Consulting as a source, AV Interactive has reported that, excluding China, Promethean’s ActivPanel Interactive FPD (IFPD) has been number one globally since 2018 and is number one individually in …

Tags:Education| Interactive Displays

HC Semitek Uses Aixtron Machines for microLEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Aixtron reported that a Chinese company, HC Semitek, has ordered AIX 2800G4-TM (IC2) and AIX G5+ C MOCVD systems to make microLEDs on 8″ x 6″ (203 x 152mm) substrates. The …

Tags:MicroLED| Production Equipment| Vapour Deposition

Huawei MatePad Paper Goes Big

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At MWC 2022, Huawei has launched a new E Ink-based eReader, the MatePad Paper. It has a 10.3″ 1872 x 1404 (227 ppi) touch enabled display. The reader has a USB-C …

Tags:E Ink| eReaders| Huawei

Foldable Phones Predicted to Exceed 100 Million Units by 2026

by Artem Alekseenko

According to UBI Research’s “1Q22 Small OLED Display Market Track” Small OLED Display (10-inches or smaller watch, smartphone, foldable phone, etc.) shipment in 2021 was 746 million, a 34.4% increase from the previous year’s …

Tags:Foldable Devices| OLEDs| Small & Medium Displays

HP Inc. Reports Fiscal 2022 First Quarter Results

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP put out its quarterly result for its first fiscal quarter. Revenue was up by 8.8% from a year ago to $17 billion. Margins were down slightly from last year to …

Tags:Dell| Financial Data| HP Inc| Lenovo| MWC 2022| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

Global Smartphone Revenue Hits Record ~$450 Billion in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research posted a blog that highlighted the value of the smartphone market, which grew to be $448 billion in 2021, up 7% year on year in Q4. Apple’s market revenues …

Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Xiaomi