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LG Display Working with Google and Apple on Flexible

by Bob Raikes

The ETNews in Korea has said that LG Display will work with Apple and Google to make foldable displays and the paper says that the company will start mass production in 2018. Customers will …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50

LG Display Reorganises Around OLED

by Bob Raikes

Business Korea reports that LG Display has finished its annual re-organisation and will switch its five divisions, TV, OLED, IT, mobile and AD into three businesses, TV, IT and Mobile. Hwang Yong-gi (a VP) …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 50

LG UHD BD Player Expected at CES

by Bob Raikes

LG is expected to release a new UltraHD Blu-ray player at CES, following the spotting of a filing by LG in the Wi-Fi Alliance database, spotted by 4Kfilme.de. Analyst Comment Frankly, given that Samsung, …

Tags:4k| Blu-ray Players| CES 2017| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 50

BAB MaxiPoster Adds Tower in Bremen

by Bob Raikes

BAB MaxiPoster Werbetürme GmbH in Hamburg, Germany (which is part of the Stroer group) has added two new screens on a motorway on the A1 in Bremen (Bremer Kreuz). Each display covers 224m² and …

Tags:DOOH| Germany| Large Display Monitor| LED| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Osram Takes its LEDs up the Zugspitze

by Bob Raikes

Osram celebrated its 110th birthday as a brand with an ice hockey match at 3,000m up on the Zugspitze mountain, the highest mountain in Germany. Eight members of the EHD Red Bull Munich team …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Osram| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Over 100K Smartphones Get Damaged by Liquids Every Day in WE

by Bob Raikes

IDC said that as many as 100,000 smartphones get damaged by liquids every day in Western Europe and that is a factor in an increase in the sales volume of devices offering resistance against …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 50| warranty

Innolux Targetting Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Taiwanese sources say that Innolux is developing its automotive panel business by expanding sales into China and Japan after developing mainly in the US and Europe. The company hopes to boost its sales as …

Tags:Automotive| Innolux| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Intel Has New Nucs – And a Roadmap

by Bob Raikes

Intel is to update its NUC (Next Unit of Computing) devices to use the latest Core chips. The NUC6CAYH uses a Celeron J3445 CPU quad core CPU (Apollo Lake) with Intel HDGraphics 500. Memory …

Tags:CES 2017| Intel| Large Display Monitor| PCs| Vol 23 - Issue 50

Mitsubishi Adds Red Laser for Projectors

by Bob Raikes

Mitsubishi Electric announced a new red laser diode (ML562G85) with a claimed world record output of 2.1W and with 639 nm output and will ship it from 1st February. Mitsubishi said that the challenge …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| LED| Mitsubishi| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Dell Smart Desk Should be at CES

by Bob Raikes

Dell will introduce a ‘Smart Desk’ concept that will compete with products for content creation such as the Windows Surface Studio and the HP Sprout. The system uses dual displays, one that is flat …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Nexell Releases AP with HEVC/VP9 Support

by Bob Raikes

Nexell of Korea has announced a new application processor, the NXP5540 that can support HEVC (H.265) encoding at UltraHD resolution and both VP9 and HEVC decoding at UltraHD at 60fps, using ip from Chips&Media. …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 49

Idemitsu Expanding Production of OLED Materials

by Bob Raikes

Idemitsu put out a release saying that it will expand its capacity for the production of OLED materials in Korea, from five tonnes per year to eight, bringing the company’s overall capacity up from …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Vol 23 - Issue 50