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Japan’s Sharp bets on VR hardware as ‘metaverse’ takes off

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Sharp is beginning to benefit from the work it has done over time to develop displays for VR, especially since the Foxconn takeover in 2016. The Nikkei reported …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| sharp| Virtual Reality

Acer Still Enjoying Covid Boost

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer seems to be continuing to surf the wave that was generated by Covid in its key areas and said that its revenues in February were up 12.7% on last year …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data

Samsung TV Plus, Tennis Channel team for first FAST tennis offer

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Next TV reports that the Tennis Channel’s T2 content will be available on the Samsung TV Plus advertising supported service in the US. T2 is youth-targeted and will include matches from …

Tags:AVOD| Samsung| Smart TV| Sports and Stadiums

Samsung Caught in Scandal over S22 Performance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that Samung has been attacked by a lot of users in Korea over reports that an add-in, the ‘Game Optimizing Service’, or GOS, may kick in to …

Tags:CPUs| Korea| Samsung| Smartphones

2021 OLED Shipments Rise 25% Y/Y

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC said that 242 million OLEDs were shipped in Q4 2021, up 11% on Q3, bringing shipments for the year to 831 million, up 25%. Smartphones dominated with 638 million, up …

Tags:Flexible Displays| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| OLED Monitors| OLED Notebooks| OLED TVs| OLEDs| QD OLEDs| Samsung Display| Smartphones

Expectations for iPhone 14-19 Notch vs. Hole vs. UPC Designs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC has an interesting explanation of what it currently expects the future to be for iPhone designs as Apple looks, like others, to reduce the impact on the display of the …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| OLEDs| Under-Display Cameras

OLED-based IdeaPad Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Laptop Magazine reviewed the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon notebook, which has a 14″ 2800 x 1800 OLED display that it describes as ” not only gorgeous, but (it’s) also super …

Tags:Lenovo| OLED Notebooks| Testing

Samsung Stops Russian Shipments

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reacting to the Russian invasion and war on Ukraine, Samsung has said that it will suspend shipments to Russia. Sales of semiconductors in Russia accounted for less than 0.1% of Samsung …

Tags:Russia| Samsung| Ukraine

Links W/C 7th March 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. A great 360 degree presentation of Van …

Tags:Automotive| Broadcast Monitors| Desktop Monitors| Litigation| MMD (AOC Philips)| Museums & Exhibitions| OLEDs| Patents| Russia| Supply Chain| Ukraine| VideoConferencing

SID Has Some Free Webinars

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Two of the US SID Chapters are holding free to view webinars this week. The Upper Mid-West Chapter has one on the topic of Nodis TruTint Nanoparticle-based Display and Smart Glass …

Tags:E Ink| Events