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UK Retail Sales See Deep Decline

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We’ve reported on weak demand in the US consumer market recently (Amazon Prime Day Discounts in US Signal Slumping Consumer Demand) and now Coresight Research has said that the revenues in …

Tags:Market Data| Retail Data| UK (United Kingdom)

Display Fab Schedules Pushed Out on Market Weakness

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog outlining how the current low fab utilisation in the LCD business and weak demand is forcing panel makers to review their capacity plans, or at least their …

Tags:Financial Data| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| OLED Fabs

Nanosys Gets More Funds

by Bob Raikes

What They Say By complete coincidence (honestly!), after I wrote about the investment in Nanosys over recent years last Friday (David Clears the First Hurdle), I got notice today that the firm has raised …

Tags:Investment| Quantum Dots

Intel and MediaTek Form Foundry Partnership

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Intel & Mediatek said that they had formed a partnership for Mediatek’s chips to be made by Intel’s Foundry Services business. The chips will be made for ‘a range of smart …

Tags:Intel| Mediatek

LED Windows Demonstrated

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Aixteen-Nine.net found a LinkedIn video that shows the use of LEDs on architectural glass, that Eclipse Digital Media calls ‘Photoelectric Glass LED’. Eclipse is working with Nexnovo of China. The LEDs …

Tags:Architectural LED| China| Outdoor Displays

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ROE Will Have the Rub1.9BV2 at IBC

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ROE Visual said in an email to us that it will have a new Ruby LED panel, the 1.9BV2, for ‘broadcast grade’ applications that will be shown at IBC in September. …

Tags:IBC 2022| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Virtual Sets

Links Week Starting 25th July 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:Apple| Asus| Desktop Monitors| | Hisense| Interactive Displays| LG Electronics (LGE)| MiniLED| MMD (AOC Philips)| MSI| OLED TVs| Quantum Dots| Recruitment & Appointments| Teardowns

Xiaomi patented magnetic components for AR Glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Pandaily said that Xiaomi has got patents for magnetic attachment of AR components in smartglasses allowing the glasses to be used as regular spectacles. The company released an ‘exploratory version’ of …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Patents| Xiaomi

Framework Laptop Gets Upgraded Mobo

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Toms Hardware reported on an update to the ‘Framework’ notebook which allows the motherboard to be upgraded to a 12th generation Core Intel system. (Microsoft to Make Devices Easier to Repair, …

Tags:Notebooks

BoM Analysis: Xiaomi’s 12S Ultra Costs $516 After Upgrades

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research published a BoM analysis of the Xiaomi 12S Ultra which, the firm said, is intended to improve Xiaomi’s presence in the >$600 market for smartphones in the Chinese market. …

Tags:China| Pricing| Smartphones| Xiaomi