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Samsung Electronics Aims to Boost Sales of Foldable Phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Korean media reports that Samsung Electronics mobile head, Roh Tae-moon said that “By 2025, foldable items will take up more than 50 percent of Samsung‘s total premium smartphone shipments,” The Korea …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Smartphone Market

Driving The Future Of Automotive Displays With Video Compression

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Semiengineering.com published an article by Rambus that looked at the topic of the big boost in video transport inside cars and the challenges because cars need to meet strict EMC requirements, …

Tags:Automotive| Interfaces| Mipi

LG UltraFine Pro OLED Monitor Wins HPA Award

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Electronics won an Award for Engineering Excellence from the HPA for its UltraFine OLED Pro EP950 reference grade HDR monitor, available in 27″ and 32″ sizes. Arri also won an …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| Colour Critical Monitors| JOLED| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED Monitors

‘Average LED video wall pixel pitch to fall to 2.1mm’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting data from Omdia, AV Magazine said that it expects average LED video wall pitch to drop to 2.1mm by 2026. In 2019, the average was 3.1mm. The firm also said …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

LG Display to unveil 20-inch OLED panel within the year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that as well as the new panels that Barry Young mentioned in his article earlier this week (LGD’s Dilemma – LCD Panels Unprofitable & Getting Worse, But OLEDs …

Tags:Curved Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| Transparent Displays

Sharp quarterly

SDP Now Back in Sharp

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In June, Nikkei reported that Sharp had said that it was buying back the shares in Sakai Display Products (its G10 fab in Japan) to make it a wholly ownd subsidiary. …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Japan| LCD Fabs| Mergers & Acquisitions| sharp

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 and Flip4 Get Nearer to S22 Series

by Bob Raikes

Samsung held its latest Galaxy Unpacked event in New York and online and released its latest foldable smartphones, the Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4 as expected. The key display specifications (both described …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Pricing| Samsung| Smartphones

Taiwanese Panel Makers Hit in July

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What They Say AUO and Innolux reported their results for July and are both suffering. AUO saw sales of $581 million, down 15.8% from June and 47.7% down year on year. Area was down …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Innolux| Taiwan

Lenovo Plans new Gaming Headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo has a new Legion VR700 headset in China for gaming, powered by the Qualcomm XR2 processor with a 4K RealRGB display. However, at the moment details are limited as there …

Tags:China| Game Playing| Lenovo| Virtual Reality