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Flat Panel Display Revenues, Profits Tumbled in Q1’22

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog post that set out the results from its financial health report on the display supply chain (registration required). Despite the recent comments about dramatically declining LCD prices, …

Tags:Financial Data| Large LCD Supply| LCD Panels

Vewd and AirConsole bring casual gaming to the TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vewd and AirConsole, a cloud-based video gaming console, announced a deal to integrate the console into the Vewd Android- and Linux-based platforms for pay TV, smart TVs and n-vehicle infotainment systems. …

Tags:Cloud Gaming| Consoles| Smart TV

Smart Films Facilitate Human-Machine Interaction

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group at Saarland University is using thin silicon films to give haptic feedback to touch displays. The 50 micron film can change shape to simulate a button or key on …

Tags:Haptics| Touch

Samsung Blue ‘Within the Year’?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There’s no secret that phosphorescent blue is coming to OLED – RGB or WOLED and QD OLED displays. At an event in Korea following SID, Kyung Hee University professor Kwon Jang-hyuk …

Tags:OLED Materials| OLEDs| QD OLEDs| WOLED (White OLED)

Mojo Gets Its MicroLEDs Working

by Bob Raikes

At Display Week, I had the chance to moderate the CEO Forum and the panel included Nikhil Balram of Mojo Vision who told me that he had joined the firm partly to help it …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Microdisplays| MicroLED

Links mid-Week Week Ending 3rd June 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 middle and end of this week. Samsung Display to fully exit from …

Tags:Apple| Asus| Desktop Monitors| HP Inc| LCD Fabs| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Microsoft| Netflix| Russia| Samsung| Samsung Display| Streaming Dongles| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Reality| Xiaomi

Samsung Fixes PQ EOTF Fudging

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Electronics has reacted to the furore over its manipulation of HDR grey levels to optimise benchmark results by issuing new firmware (update 1211) for its S95B TV. (A Testing Scandal …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)

Foxconn shrugs off China lockdown concerns after record Q1

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Foxconn has said that it will maintain its revenue this year, despite lockdowns in China which are disrupting supply chains. Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said: “It is indeed …

Tags:China| Covid-19| Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| ODMs & OEMs| Quanta

Oppo is presenting its Air Glass in the US for the first time.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo has been showing its ‘Air Glass’ at the AWE 2022 event in North America. The device is a monocular device based around a Qualcomm Snapdragon 4100 chip and with a …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Smartphones| USA

Links Week Starting 30th May 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:Application Processors| China| Cinema going| Dell| Desktop Monitors| | Keyboards| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED Monitors| OLED TVs| Samsung| Touch Pads| Virtual Reality

AUO, HannStar Display capacity expansion delayed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that AUO has slowed down its planned capacity expansion at its LTPS LCD fab in Kunshan, China. It had been looking to boost capacity from 27-28K substrates/month to 36K …

Tags:AUO| Hannstar (Hannspree)| LCD Fabs| Taiwan