Links Week Ending 18th March 2022
by Bob Raikes
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Kuo: only iPhone 14 Pro models …
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IVAS US Defence Development Struggling?
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The Information’s Reality Check reported that Microsoft is “expecting negative feedback from the customer” in its development of a headset, known as IVAS and based on the HoloLens. The article suggested …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Microsoft| Military & Defence
Taiwanese Report February Data
by Bob Raikes
What They Say AUO and Innolux released their results for February. Innolux was down in revenue by 8.6% on January and down 13.4% on last year to $769 million. Large panels were down 15.0% …
Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Innolux
DSCC Report Reveals Advanced Tablet Market Rose 99% in 2021 & Apple Dominates
by Bob Raikes
What They Say DSCC published some data on its blog that looked at displays for ‘advanced’ displays as part of its Advanced IT Display report. The firm said that the Apple 12.9″ iPad Pro …
Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| MiniLED| OLEDs| Samsung Display| tablets
Samsung Negotiations Continue over QD-OLED
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The Korea Bizwire said that arguments about pricing are continuing to delay the introduction by Samsung Electronics of TVs based on Samsung Display’s QD-OLED technology. The site said that the VD …
Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung| sony
Foxconn Hit by Covid Restrictions in China
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Foxconn has shutdown its facility in Shenzen after Chinese authorities imposed a partial lockdown due to a rise in Covid-19 cases, Nikkei reported. There were reported to be 60 new infections …
Tags:China| Covid-19| Foxconn (Honhai)
Gurman’s view of Apple’s Plans
by Bob Raikes
What They Say 9to5Mac said that it has heard that Apple is developing a new version of the Pro Display XDR with higher resolution than the current 32″ 6016 x 3384 device. Bloomberg’s Apple …
Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Notebooks| PCs
Ukraine Vice PM Asks Asus to Shutter Russia Business
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Tom’s Hardware reported that the Ukranian Vice President, Mykhailo Fedorov, made an appeal on Twitter to Asus to stop selling products to Russia. The blog reports that the Taiwan News had …
Tags:Acer| Asus| Russia| Taiwan| Ukraine
Metamerism and New Display Technologies
by Bob Raikes
What They Say The SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal published an article that looked at the challenges of metamerism in different emerging display technologies and ways of compensating for this. (Does WCG Make More People …
Tags:Colour (Color)| Colour Quality
Samsung QD-OLED Soon?
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Eagle-eyed observers spotted an advert for two Samsung QD-OLED TVs from Value Electronics in the US. The advert was still online when we looked. There are two model numbers, the QN65QS95B …
Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung
Infographic: Q4 2021 | Semiconductors
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Counterpoint Research published its data on the semiconductor market in Q4 2021 which showed Samsung well ahead of Intel with strong DRAM and NAND sales. Major smartphone SoC and GPU vendors …
Tags:Broadcom| Nvidia| Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| TSMC
Yes Windows users can use Apple’s new Studio Display—mostly
by Bob Raikes
What They Say MacWorld has got confirmation that the new Apple Studio display should work on Windows PCs, at least as a monitor and with a webcam and speakers. However, a number of the …
Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Super Hi-Vision (8K)
