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Notion Systems Supplies InkJet to ITRI

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Notion Systems of Germany said that it has supplied an inkjet printing system developed in collaboration with MBraun of Germany, to ITRI In Taiwan. ITRI is now using the new n.jet …

Tags:Germany| InkJet Deposition| R&D (Research & Development)| Taiwan

Samsung, LG dominate global TV market with premium models

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Well, it’s not exactly news to those that watch the market, but the Korea Herald reported data from Omdia that gave Samsung top position in the TV market for the sixteenth …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| OLED TVs| Quantum Dots| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)

Gurman Clarifies Expected Products

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple watcher, Mark Gurman reported on the products that he expects to see this year in his Power On subscriber newsletter. He listed: A new Mac mini with an M1 …

Tags:Apple

E Ink Dominates Reflective Displays

by Bob Raikes

After last week’s look at a new 32″ polysilicon reflective monitor, the topic of reflective displays is close to the surface for me and so I thought I’d follow up with a couple more …

Tags:Bistable| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Reflective Display

Sharp CEO Tai steps down after 6-year turnaround under Foxconn

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Sharp CEO Tai Jeng-Wu will step down at the end of March after 6 years in the post following his appointment by Foxconn founder Terry Gou. His successor …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Recruitment & Appointments| sharp

Matterport Doing Well With Digital Twins

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As part of our coverage of AR & VR over the years, we have reported on Matterport, a developer of digital twins of properties, since 2015, although we haven’t reported on …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Augmented Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 21st February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Digitimes reported that Apple has conducted ‘second-phase …

Tags:AMD| Apple| Augmented Reality| GPUs| Intel| Recruitment & Appointments| Samsung| Smartphones| sony| TVs (TV Sets)

LG 42″ C2 OLED TV Same Price as 48″

by Bob Raikes

What They Say John Lewis in the UK is taking orders for this year’s LG 42″ C2 OLED and has published a price of £1,399 ($1,575 + tax), the same price as the 48″ …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Pricing

Qualcomm is adding AV1 support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm is reported by Protocol Entertainment to be developing a chip, the SM8550, due at the end of the year or later, that will support AV1 native decoding. The article reports …

Tags:Codecs| HBO| Netflix| Qualcomm| Samsung| YouTube

A bit of a re-branding!

by Bob Raikes

This is just to let you know that the ‘What Bob Saw’ service is re-branding as ‘Display Insider’. There is no other change – it’s the same content and format – just a new …

Autonomous Vehicles – Another Enabler In Sight

by Bob Raikes

Today, I’m going to talk about something that’s not directly a display topic, but is a potentially significant display use case. That is to say, autonomous vehicles, and, in particular, cars. If your interest …

Tags:Automotive| Legislation