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Transparent OLEDs Shine in Seoul Bakery

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hat tip to Dave Haynes at Sixteen-nine.net for getting some interesting background on the use by a flagship store of Paris Baguette in Seoul, Korea. He estimates that the transparent OLEDs …

Tags:Korea| LG Electronics (LGE)| Transparent Displays

Tobii Tracking to be Used by Sony in PSVR2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Eye tracking specialist Tobii said that its technology would be used in Sony’s PSVR2 headset and that the firm will get revenue worth “more than” 10% of its revenues this year. …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition| PlayStation| Tobii| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 4th 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:Asus| ATSC| Awards| Consoles| Desktop Monitors| Digital Photography| Game Playing| Google| iPhone| MSI| Netflix| Nvidia| Right to Repair| Samsung| STBs| Vodafone

LCD Monitor Panel shipments Forecast to Drop 11.3% QoQ in 2Q22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Taiwanese analyst, TrendForce Research forecast that shipments of panels for LCD monitors in Q2 2022 will be down 11.3% to 42.5 million. That’s down from earlier expectations as brands were fairly …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Forecasts| Market Data

ISE LED Announcements Round Up

by Bob Raikes

I was very disappointed when the much re-scheduled ISE event was set to take place at the same time as the SID Display Week in San Jose. I like ISE and always learn a …

Tags:ISE 2022| LED| LED Cinema| MicroLED| MiniLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide PC Shipments to Decline 9.5% in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Gartner issued a press release with its forecasts for PCs, tablets and smartphones and added to the gloom by forecasting volume declines of 9.5%, 9.0% and 7.1% with an expectation of …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Notebooks| PCs| Smartphone Market| tablets

Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2021-2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ARtillery Intelligence still remains positive about the potential and growth of AR markets and published its ‘cautiously optimistic’ forecast with 33% revenue growth forecast for 2022 and 27% in 2023 as …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data| Reorganisation & Restructuring

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Mojo Vision CEO Tries the Contact Lens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AR contact lens developer, Mojo Vision, has demonstrated its contact lens in use and the firm’s CEO is reported to have worn the device for around an hour. This is said …

Tags:Augmented Reality

iOS Tablets Chips Away at Android Dominance in Q1 22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Counterpoint Research said that Apple is ‘closing the gap’ with Android tablets as the market reaches saturation and with global uncertainty and negative purchasing intent (see Gartner Forecasts Worldwide PC Shipments …

Tags:Android| iOS (Apple)| iPad| Market Data| tablets

Samsung & Ulvac Clash over Equipment Pricing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung Display (SDC) and Ulvac have different views over the likely price for a deposition machine with SDC wanting to pay $307 million while Ulvac is said …

Tags:OLED Fabs| Production Equipment| Production Technology| Samsung

Arm Adds Ray Tracing to Mobile GPUs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Arm has a new GPU, the Immortalis (how modest!) that offers hardware ray-tracing for the first time in one of the firm’s designs. It also claims a 15% boost in performance …

Tags:Arm| GPUs| Imagination Tech| ray tracing| Semiconductors| Smartphones

Links Week Ending 1st 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 end of this week. Plugable USB-C Triple 4K Display Docking Station review: …

Tags:Brazil| China| Display Hubs & Splitters| Financial Data| OLEDs| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphone Market| TVs (TV Sets)| UDC| USB| USB Monitors