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JOLED Starts Commercial Shipments Printable OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

JOled, the Japanese maker of OLED panels has started commercial shipments of inkjet printed OLED panels and has confirmed that the first units will be shipped to Sony for use in medical applications. The …

Tags:JOLED| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 46

VW Shows Moia Ride-sharing Concept

by Bob Raikes

Volkswagen has shown the Moia concept vehicle, which has been designed to support ride sharing services where a number of individual travellers may be in a single vehicle. The seats are mainly individual and …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Dell Monitor Bargain Continues After Black Friday

by Bob Raikes

Dell set very competitive pricing for its U2718Q 27″ UltraHD HDR-compatible IPS monitor (which we saw at IFA – Dell Boosts its IFA Presence in Displays) on Black Friday, with pricing coming down in …

Tags:Back Panel| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Apple Buys VRVana

by Bob Raikes

Apple is reported to have bought an AR start-up called VRVana which has apparently developed an AR headset, called the Totem, but had not shipped it. Reports put the value of the deal at …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Yole Looks at Phosphor Development

by Bob Raikes

Yole Développement’s Eric Virey has released information on the market for phosphors and quantun dots and believes that the market is headed for rationalisation as there are a lot of suppliers, but little differentiation …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Phosphors| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Gionee is Busy

by Bob Raikes

Gionee of China has been busy and has globally launched eight smartphones at a different range of prices, but all with 18:9 displays. At the top of the range is the M7 Plus, which …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Have we Reached “Peak CE Stuff”?

by Bob Raikes

There weren’t any really big stories this week, but lots of data on the smartphone market in MDM as well as forecasts for computing devices. All of the forecasts are conservative even though they …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Macroeconomics| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 45

PNY PrevailPro Supports Four UltraHD Displays

by Bob Raikes

PNY Technologies, Inc. announced new PrevailPro P4000 and P3000 ultra thin and light mobile workstations. The workstations use Nvidia Quadro P4000 or P3000 Pascal GPUs and Intel Core i7 (seventh gen) and HM175 chipset. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| Nvidia| Vol 24 - Issue 46| Workstations

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Varjo Boosts Cash For Production

by Bob Raikes

We reported on Varjo Technologies some months ago (Varjo Announces High resolution VR Solution) and now the company has added $6.7 million in investment from Tekes in addition to $8.2 million in Series A …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 45

New Philips Adobe RGB Monitor Supports USB Type C Docking

by Bob Raikes

MMD has released the 328P6AUBREB under the Philips brand. The 32″ (31.5″) QuadHD (2560 x 1440) monitor has HDR support (HDR400) with a 10 bit panel and 12 bit processing. Colour support is 99% …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Philips| Vol 24 - Issue 45| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

A Guide to WaveGuides

by Bob Raikes

One of the key technologies for augmented reality headsets is waveguide optics, which guides light from the image source and superimposes an image in front of the viewer’s eye. In our looking around the …

Tags:AR/VR| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Optics| Vol 24 - Issue 45

Apple Makes Patent Counterclaims

by Bob Raikes

Apple has filed an action against Qualcomm in the on-going dispute between the companies (ITC Agrees to Look at Qualcomm/Apple Dispute). Apple claims that the firm is in breach of eight patents that it …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Qualcomm| Vol 24 - Issue 45