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BC5 BOE Differentiates Professional and ‘Link’ Devices

by Bob Raikes

Leono (Chao) Guo is Vice Chief Strategic Marketing Officer for BOE and he talked about the “PC” being an “irreplaceable Link for the post PC era” PCs and smartphones have been enabled by Moore’s …

Tags:BOE| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| SID Display Week 2016| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC4 Intel Makes A Call To Action for UltraHD on PCs

by Bob Raikes

Roland Wooster is from Intel, where he is responsible for promoting PC and All-in-one (AIO) technology to boost device refresh. He started by discussing UltraHD and HDR. In monitors, there was a boost for …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 21

BC3 Smartphones Looking for Growth

by Bob Raikes

Vinita Jakhanwal is from IHS and she spoke about smartphones – nobody can live without them these days, she said. However, the smartphone market is showing saturation with only around 1% growth this year. …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LTPS TFT| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Press Events| SID Display Week 2016| Smartphone Market

BC2 Hsieh Looks at Opportunities for IT Displays

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was David Hsieh, who heads up the Display Research for IHS, and he asked why display innovation is bypassing the PC/IT space? He showed the development of the industry overall and …

Tags:IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID Display Week 2016

BC1 Microsoft Aims for ‘Virtuous Circle’ for IT Displays and Suggests ACES

by Bob Raikes

The Business Conference was opened with introductions by Yong-Seog Kim, President of SID and Ben Keen of IHS. Keen introduced IHS which runs the Business Conference and which has acquired seven companies to build …

Tags:Colour Management & Processing| Desktop Monitors| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Press Events| SID Display Week 2016

Four Breakthroughs at SID 2016

by Bob Raikes

I love the SID DisplayWeek event. I have attended the event every year since 1995, so this was my 22nd visit. As I mentioned in an article last year, looking back at my early …

Tags:Editorial| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Quantum Dots| Vol 23 - Issue 20

Quantum Dots OverHyped? Check at DisplayWeek

by Bob Raikes

We will shortly have a great Display Daily article from Barry Young of the OLED Association on what he sees as the hype for quantum dots at SID. However, if you are still at …

Tags:OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016

MicroLEDs on the Agenda for SID, AWE and Infocomm

by Bob Raikes

Our front page story from Sony was not difficult to choose this week. We have a special “microsite” with news from SID’s Display Week, which starts in a couple of days. In my introductory …

Tags:AWE 2016| Editorial| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2016| sony| Vol 23 - Issue 19

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EMEA Monitor Market Up in Q1

by Bob Raikes

Given the poor conditions in the PC market, it’s surprising to be reporting that the market for desktop monitors in EMEA was up on last year in Q1 2016 according to Meko’s DisplayCast DTM …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 23 - Issue 19

NEC Showcase Rises to New Height

by Bob Raikes

The NEC Showcase took place this year at the Millbank Tower. The nearest underground station was Westminster, beside the Houses of Parliament in London. I was surprised to see a band and lots of …

Tags:FlatFrog| Large Display Monitor| NEC Showcase 2016| Touch| Video Walls| Vol 23 - Issue 19

Eyevis to Use ColorSpark in DLP Engines

by Bob Raikes

Eyevis of Germany was showing its ESP range of DLP-based LED projector engines which are widely used in aircraft and automotive simulators. The company has supplied projectors for 17 aircraft simulators being developed by …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Eyevis| ITEC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Simulation| Vol 23 - Issue 19