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Samsung Starting Apple Flex OLED Production

by Bob Raikes

ETNews of Korea said that Samsung will start mass production of flexible displays from this month, as the company has approved samples from Samsung. The site also said that although a flexible display is …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Axiomtek Panel PC Supports Dual Displays

by Bob Raikes

Axiomtek has a new 17″ resistive touch-enabled ‘panel PC’ that uses a 1280 x 1024 display with 350 cd/m² of brightness and has a fanless configuration that is IP65 certified. The PC uses an …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| PCs| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 22

BOE Said to be Buying Kateeva Inkjet

by Bob Raikes

We report in our SID Display Week report that BOE showed an inkjet-printed electro-emissive quantum dot display at the exhibition. Now we have heard from Taiwan that the company has ordered an inkjet printer …

Tags:BOE| InkJet Deposition| Kateeva| Large Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Production Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Tianma Has Broad Range of Special Displays

by Bob Raikes

We seem to have met with Tianma at more shows than any of the other panel suppliers – we met at Electronica, CES, MWC and Embedded World – all in the last seven or …

Tags:Free Form Displays| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Medical| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Tianma| Touch| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Clearink Impresses Us Again

by Bob Raikes

Last year, we were very impressed with the reflective technology shown by ClearInk. The company has a technology that uses eletrophoretic particles to frustrate the reflection of rays impinging on the display surface. As …

Tags:Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

BOE Causes Analyst Overload!

by Bob Raikes

BOE has been making a bigger and bigger impact at each of the last several SID Display Weeks and this year it impressed even more. We started by looking at a flexible OLED concept …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2017| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 21

AUO Highlights Notebooks, Gaming and Touch

by Bob Raikes

AUO had plenty to show at SID, but we were surprised that we were unable to get any information on the 1,000 cd/m² that the company has been working on for HDR monitors with …

Tags:Automotive| Flexible Displays| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2017| Smartwatches| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Corning Cold Forms for Automotive & Shows Iris LGP for Monitors

by Bob Raikes

Corning held its customary press breakfast and booth tour at the show. We started by looking at the development that Corning has done with Pegatron (as the OEM) and AUO (as the panel supplier) …

Tags:Corning| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 21

Eizo Makes Monitor Test Available

by Bob Raikes

Monitor maker, Eizo, has released a set of monitor tests on its global website to help monitor buyers to evaluate products or check their monitors for quality and pixel defects. There are 13 tests …

Tags:Back Panel| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 24 - Issue 22

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LED Display Prices Under Pressure

by Bob Raikes

An unconfirmed report from Digitimes suggests that there has been a big drop in LED pricing of up to 20% because of a move by Absen that others have reacted to. Analyst Comment We’ll …

Tags:Absen| Large Display Monitor| Pricing| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 22

New Canon UST Projector has Dicom Version

by Bob Raikes

Canon announced two new projectors, the XEED WUX500ST, a 1920 x 1200 LCOS device that has a short throw lens and is designed for installation. A special version (suffixed ‘D’) is available for medical …

Tags:Canon| Large Display Monitor| Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 24

Foxconn Adds Apple and Amazon to Toshiba Bid

by Bob Raikes

Terry Gou of Foxconn has told the Nikkei that Apple and Amazon are participating in the bid that Foxconn is making to try to acquire the Toshiba semiconductor business as the Japanese company tries …

Tags:Amazon| Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| toshiba| Vol 24 - Issue 22