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MHL Persevering with Alt Mode

by Bob Raikes

MHL was at the show to promote itself and was, like VESA, focusing on its USB Type C “Alt” Mod. However, the group started by telling us about the latest design win – the …

VESA Happy with Type C Progress

by Bob Raikes

The first meeting we had on the show floor was with VESA, which was highlighting DisplayPort. The big development over the last year has been the introduction of USB Type C interfaces that include …

Hannstar said that its sales were down 1% month on month, 41% year on year, in December at NT$1,216 million ($36.5 million). Large panel shipments (including HannsG monitors) were down to 51K, from 96K, …

Tags:Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Will Foldable Phone Arrive in 2016?

by Bob Raikes

HSBC has said that the pressure on Samsung’s smartphone business may lead the firm to bring forward its plans for a foldable OLED smartphone from 2017 to late 2016. (Rumors: Devices with Foldable Displays …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 01

UltraHD Alliance Launches New Logo

by Bob Raikes

Unusually, the UltraHD Alliance held a press event late on the evening of the first press day at CES, but we went along anyway. Despite the relaxation (mostly liquid!) at the CES Unveiled event …

Dialog Grows But Warns on Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

UK-based Dialog Semiconductor said that it’s preliminary results show that revenue in Q4 2015 was $397 million, with 17% growth for the year as a whole, at $1.355 billion. The company expects continued softening …

Tags:Dialog Semiconductor| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Arrow Electronics New OEM President

by Bob Raikes

Arrow Electronics has named Mark Taylor as president of its global OEM computing solutions business.

Innovation (And Everything Else) Grows at CES

by Bob Raikes

The Consumer Electronics Show again managed to grow in 2016, becoming the largest edition of the event ever. More than 3,800 companies attended as exhibitors, across more than 229,000m² of space. In excess of …

Tags:CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 02

New BlackBerry Products Will Run Android

by Bob Raikes

BlackBerry confirmed to CNet at this year’s CES that Blackberry’s own OS has come to an end and that all new products will run Android. The BlackBerry OS will still be supplied on existing …

Tags:Android| BlackBerry| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Innolux Sees 15% Decline in 2015

by Bob Raikes

Innolux’s sales grew by 3.8$ to NT$26.4 billion ($792m) in December, but were still down 30.8% on the year ago period. 10.21 million large panels were shipped, 5.8% up on November, while small and …

Tags:Financial Data| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 01

More Android TVs coming this year

by Bob Raikes

The official Android blog has said that there will be a lot of new Android TVs in the market this year. The blog said: “If you’re looking for a new TV, you can select …

Tags:Android| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 23 - Issue 01

SiTune Releases Tuner for 8K Broadcasts

by Bob Raikes

SiTune Corporation of San Jose has said that it has developed the STN6528, the first tuner capable of supporting the new Advanced Wide Band Digital Satellite Broadcasting Standard (ARIB STD-B44) for broadcasting 8K digital …