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02 Engie Reveals the Future of Energy

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Thierry Lepercq of Engie which is a very old company – more than 200 years and in 70 countries and supplying 2% of the electricity in the world. Facing the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Leti Days 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Power| Vol 24 - Issue 25

01 STMicroelectronics Retains Leti Links

by Bob Raikes

Jean-Marc Chery is the Deputy CEO from STMicroelectronics (STM) which has several big facilities in Grenoble that work closely with Leti. STM is working in two big areas – the IoT and Smart Driving. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Leti Days 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| STMicroelectronics| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Leti Days Highlight European Chip Future

by Bob Raikes

It’s funny how things work out. I was due to meet up with Leti, a French R&D organisation, at the recent SID event, as the group was showing a new LED-based microdisplay. Unfortunately, the …

Tags:France| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Leti Days 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Dell Adds Mobile Thin Client and Upgrades ThinOS

by Bob Raikes

Dell has added a new mobile thin client to its range in the form of the Dell Latitude 3480. Features include a 14-inch fullHD display, an Intel dual core processor with integrated graphics and …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Thin Clients| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Qingdao Volfoni-Rio Launches Lawsuit against GetD

by Bob Raikes

Volfoni and Qingdao Volfoni-Rio today jointly announced that Volfoni’s manufacturing and sales partner in China, Qingdao Volfoni-Rio, has launched a lawsuit in the Shenzhen Court in China against the parent company of GetD for …

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Sumitomo Can Simplify OLED Production

by Bob Raikes

Sumitomo Chemical has announced new materials that can simplify the process of creating OLED displays (using colour filters), by combining the RGB materials into a single white OLED material that can be deposited by …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Sumitomo| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Nokia and Xiaomi Announce Partnership

by Bob Raikes

Nokia and Xiaomi have said that they have done a patent cross-licensing deal to allow collaboration on areas including IoT, augmented and virtual reality and A/I. Both companies have been involved in AR/VR, with …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Nokia| Patents| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 25| Xiaomi

Samsung To Use LG Panels for TVs

by Bob Raikes

Samsung is to use from 700,000 to 1,000,000 LCD panels from rival LG Display in sizes of 40″ and 60″, starting in July, according to a report in Business Korea. The deal has been …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Gartner Says Worldwide Device Shipments Will Decline 0.3% in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Worldwide shipments of PCs, tablets and smartphones are expected to exceed 2.3 billion units in 2017, a decline of 0.3% from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is forecast to return to growth …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 25

MOCVD Set Sales To Grow

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes has reported ‘industry sources’ in China as saying that 1,800 old MOCVD sets will need to be replaced between 2018 and 2020, representing 58% of the total number of sets and around 50% …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 25

Visteon Supplies Range Rover Cluster Display

by Bob Raikes

The Range Rover Velar is using a 12.3″ ‘Retina class’ virtual cluster display from Visteon as well as featuring remote-controlled rear sets entertainment displays. Developed in partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, the HMI is …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 25