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17 Embedded World Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Auspice Star is from Taoyuan in Taiwan and makes a range of special monitors for touch and industrial applications. We asked what made the company different from the others that do this, and heard …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| ELO| Large Display Monitor| Touch| Vol 22 - Issue 09

16 Valens Pushes HDBaseT into Industrial PCs – Autos Next?

by Bob Raikes

Valens was at the show to promote its new HDBaseT chips. We’re used to seeing these in digital signage, but they are very useful in industrial applications. The latest Colligo chip was being shown …

Tags:Automotive| Electronic Displays 2015| HDBaseT| Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09

15 NLT Can Support Touch with Gloves on Wet Screens

by Bob Raikes

NLT (the NEC/Tianma venture) told us that it is seeing a lot of interest in widescreen formats, now. It has had many years of supplying 4:3 and 5:4 displays with a constant fit/form/function for …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| LCD Modules| Mobile Display Monitor| NLT| Pcap (Procap)| Touch Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 09

13 Litemax Has Lots to Show in Special Displays

by Bob Raikes

Litemax of Taiwan is a speciality monitor supplier that had plenty to show. It had ATM displays with up to 2,500 cd/m² of brightness and supporting -20° C to +60° operation. There was a …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| High Brightness Displays| Industrial Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Maritime| Mobile Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 22 - Issue 09

12 Data Modul Highlights Touch and Updates on Arrow

by Bob Raikes

Data Modul was, of course, at the show with a strong presence. We asked about the Arrow acquisition and it seems that “the deal is not yet done” although it looks likely that it …

Tags:Arrow Electronics| Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09

11 Beneq Brings Transparency to EL Displays

by Bob Raikes

Beneq is the name of the business that runs the facilities that make EL displays in Espoo, Finland. The company spun out of Planar in 2012 and continues to make EL displays for customers …

Tags:EL (Electroluminescent)| Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 22 - Issue 09

10 Embedded World Show Features Display Area

by Bob Raikes

The Embedded World exhibition takes place alongside the Electronic Displays conference and had a number of exhibitors, so we slipped away from the conference for a quick foray around the hall where most of …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 09

Monitor Market Finishes 2014 Slightly Up

by Bob Raikes

The European Desktop Monitor market managed to end the year just 1% up on 2013, according to Meko’s DisplayCast service. Although the growth was low, it follows four consecutive years of decline. “There was …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Vol 22 - Issue 09

Sharp Can Supply Memory LCD

by Bob Raikes

Jeremy Lock is from Sharp’s R&D lab in Oxford and he looks at all sizes of displays, but at the conference he talked about small displays for wearables. There are a lot of questions …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 09| Wearables

08 LG Display Can Reduce LCD Refresh Without Flicker

by Bob Raikes

Hee Eun Lee is from LG and she spoke about power reduction in mobile display devices by reducing refresh rates For smartphones, hardware is improving, but the power consumption remains an issue. Refreshing the …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 09

07 Fraunhofer Working on QD LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Christian Ippen is from the Fraunhofer IAP and he also talked about QDs, which the Fraunhofer is researching. His introduction covered some of the ground that 3M had been over. The Fraunhofer uses an …

Tags:Electronic Displays 2015| Fraunhofer| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 22 - Issue 09

06 QDs in Cars Have to be Cadmium Free

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Michael Patz from 3M Germany and he talked about quantum dots (QDs). QDs are semiconductors that act as phosphors. The tiny particles, around 3nm, will emit pure green light at …

Tags:3M (MMM)| Automotive| Electronic Displays 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 22 - Issue 09| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)