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New digiTHIN on display at The Pixel Depot

by Bob Raikes

digiLED Group said that the digiThin LED displays that it showed at ISE are now installed at the ‘Pixel Depot’, the company’s London showroom – described as ‘Europe’s largest LED showroom’. At the location, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Nvidia and Microsoft Team for Real Time Ray Tracing

by Bob Raikes

Ray tracing in real time has long been the ‘holy grail’ of graphics engineers. Up to now, that has not been possible, although as we have reported, companies have worked on ray-tracing just the …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| ray tracing| Vol 25 - Issue 11

OLED Info Makes Promotional Video

by Bob Raikes

OLED Info has released what it describes as ‘a short explanation of OLED’. The video is more promotional than neutral (we’d argue with or qualify some of the claims quite carefully), but it certainly …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Apple

Apple TV Gets HDR Content – Probably!

by Bob Raikes

In looking for some information about Apple’s streaming, we came upon this article that explains the frustrations and problems of actually trying to watch HDR on an Apple TV. The author is something of …

Tags:Apple| HDR - High Dynamic Range| iOS (Apple)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 25 - Issue 11

OLED-A Highlights Flex OLED Changes

by Bob Raikes

The OLED Association published its latest forecasts for different OLED fabs now that a number of planned expansions have been revised in the light of the sales of the iPhone X (DSCC Releases Latest …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Visionox to Discuss 7.2” Rollable AMOLED Reliability

by Bob Raikes

OLED-Info said that it would discuss a new flexible 7.2″ AMOLED that it has developed at the forthcoming SID Display Week. The report said that the firm has performed 200,000 folding cycles as well …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 11

HTC Releases Vive Pricing

by Bob Raikes

HTC Vive announced that the HTC Vive Pro Head Mounted Display (HMD) will be available for $799 with global pre-orders starting now. The company also announced a $100 price reduction for the current Vive …

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Virtual Reality

Apple MicroLEDs Being Developed in California

by Bob Raikes

Bloomberg has reported that Apple has moved some of its microLED technology development work to a ‘secret’ (well, not any more!) facility in Santa Clara near its HQ in Cupertino. in California. The report …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 11

hannstar

HannStar Display Positive on 2017 Result

by Bob Raikes

Hannstar Display has posted profits of NT$1.671 billion ($57.27 million) for Q4 2017 on sales of NT$6.152 ($210 million) bringing sales for the year to NT$23.743 billion ($810 million). The company said that panels …

Tags:Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Xilinx Unveils ACAP Programmable SoC

by Bob Raikes

Xilinx, Inc. announced a new product category that it calls “adaptive compute acceleration platform” (ACAP) that is is claimed to go ‘far beyond’ the capabilities of an FPGA, it’s traditional product category. The firm …

Tags:Chips| FPGAs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| SOCs| Vol 25 - Issue 11

BluGlass Working on MicroLEDs

by Bob Raikes

An Australian company, BluGlass, has said that it has entered a collaboration agreement with an unnamed MicroLED company which is described as “well-funded”. The companies will check if the the firm’s Remote Plasma Chemical …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Technology| Vol 25 - Issue 11

IHS Clarifies TV Panel Price Trends

by Bob Raikes

David Hsieh of IHS Markit has published a detailed blog post looking at the likely development of large area LCD panel pricing and has concluded that there will be falling prices for this quarter …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Pricing| TV Set Market| Vol 25 - Issue 11