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LCD TV Panel Prices Headed for One “L” of a Recovery in Q4

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week, DSCC published a blog article summarising the situation on LCD TV panel pricing, describing the situation as a ‘Perfect Storm’ with Continued oversupply Near-universally weak demand and excessive …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| Large LCD Supply| Pricing| Supply Chain| TVs (TV Sets)

ZBD’s Journey via ESLs to Custom

by Bob Raikes

Back a couple of decades ago (1997 to be precise), I got quite excited that a new display technology had been invented in the UK and the main enquiry office of the developer, the …

Tags:Bistable| Custom Displays| LCD displays| Reflective Display

LG Electronics Sees Profits in Q2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG posted a profit of $260 million for Q2, up from a loss last year, on sales of $14.86 billion. The result was a bit lower than the guidance and analyst …

Tags:Financial Data| LG Electronics (LGE)

Links Week Starting 1st August 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. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

Tags:Application Processors| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| GPUs| HP Inc| Intel| PlayStation| Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| sony| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)| VideoConferencing| Virtual Reality

iOS 16 beta Shows new Sleep Mode for Always On Images

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Mac reports that the iPhone 14 Pro’s ‘always on’ screen will show background images, but with reduced brightness and contrast, in sleep mode. That is in contrast to Android, where the …

Tags:Android| Apple| iPhone

Apple & Honor Flourish in Difficult Chinese Smartphone Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There has been a flurry of news and releases in the last few days as the big research companies send out their Q2 data. A particularly interesting topic is the smartphone …

Tags:Apple| China| Foldable Devices| Smartphone Market

Samsung Patents Variable Refresh Zones for Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Galaxy Club in the Netherlands reported a couple of new Samsung Korean patents that show how a smartphone screen could have several zones that could be updated at different refresh rates. …

Tags:Patents| Samsung| Smartphones

Meta Loses $2.8 billion in the Metaverse

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta reported that in Q2 2022 its Reality Labs Division lost $2.9 billion in Q2 2022. Revenue was down by 35% from Q1 at $452 million. Despite the losses, CEO Mark …

Tags:| Financial Data| Virtual Reality

OLEDs Continue to Do Well in Germany

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GfU released its data for the TV market in Germany in the first half of 2022 and reported that volume fell by 17% compared to 2021 at 2.3 million sets. …

Tags:Germany| Market Data| TV Set Market