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Flex Increases Production Capability in Poland

by Alan Spencer

Flex is to open a new facility later this year. This will add 11,000 square metres of space with 9,000 square metres allocated to manufacturing space. The rest of the building will be allocated …

Tags:Flex| Large Display Monitor| Manufacturing| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 05

LED Chips Growth For Fine Pixel Pitch Displays to Increase 30-40%

by Alan Spencer

According to industry sources in Taiwan, global demand for the LED chipsused in fine pixel pitch displays will see an increase of 30-40% this year. The information was reported by Digitimes. The forecast growth …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 05

MediaTek Sees Fall in Revenues At Start of Year

by Alan Spencer

MediaTek saw a drop in its consolidated revenues to NT$18.31 billion (US$588.3 million) in January 2017. This represents a 11-month low and a decrease of 14.2% on month and 14.1% on year. Blamed for …

Tags:Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 05

January 2017 Revenues Down for TPK Holding

by Alan Spencer

The revenues were down for TPK Holding for the month of January 2017. The company reported consolidated revenues of NT$7.624 billion ($247 m) for the month. This represents a 12.74% drop on a monthly …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Market| TPK| Vol 24 - Issue 06

Fire Breaks Out at Samsung’s Battery Factory

by Alan Spencer

A fire broke out at the Samsung SDI battery factory in China. This occurred just weeks after Samsung stated that it was defective batteries that caused its Note 7 mobile to burst into flames. …

Tags:Batteries| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Irdeto CA Deployed for Russia’s MTS

by Alan Spencer

Irdeto CA has been deployed to over 2 million subscribers of the Russian telecommunications group, MTS. Irdeto’s scalable CA solution now securely delivers the Russian broadcaster’s television services across nine different time zones, representing …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Russia| Security| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Viaccess-Orca and ContentArmor Work on 4K Content Protection

by Alan Spencer

Viaccess-Orca and ContentArmor have joined forces to strengthen the protection of UHD and 4K premium content. ContentArmor watermark technology has been integrated into the full range of Viaccess-Orca’s Sentinel content protection solutions, including hybrid …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| MWC 2017| Pay TV| Security| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Vietnam’s Government To Approve Samsung Display’s Plans

by Alan Spencer

Samsung Display’s plans are to be officially approved by the North Vietnam government. Samsung will carry out expansion for five years starting in 2018, bringing the sum to be invested in the project to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 05

LG Constructing New OLED Plant

by Alan Spencer

ETNews is reporting that LG Display is constructing a new OLED fabrication plant (P10) with a planned finish by Q2 2018, although it is likely that mass production will take a bit longer to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 05

BOE Display To Invest In New $145 million OLED TV Production Line

by Alan Spencer

BOE Display has announced that it has signed an agreement with the Hefei municipal government to co-invest one billion CNY (around $145 million) in a new OLED TV production line. BOE will invest 80% …

Tags:BOE| China| Large Display Monitor| TV Production| Vol 24 - Issue 05

IDC Forecast IT Spending Growth of More Than 3% To 2020

by Alan Spencer

Worldwide revenues for IT products and services are forecast to reach nearly $2.4 trillion in 2017, an increase of 3.5% over 2016. IDC estimates that global IT spending will grow to nearly $2.65 trillion …

Tags:it| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 05

MediaTek Comments on Patent Case Brought by AMD

by Alan Spencer

AMD has accused MediaTek, LG, Sigma Designs and Vizio of infringing its graphics processing patents. MediaTek has responded by issuing a company filing through the Taiwan Stock Exchange in response. MediaTek confirmed that the …

Tags:AMD| Large Display Monitor| Litigation| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 05