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More 5G & OLED Bits & Pieces

by Ken Werner

I’m still collecting interesting news items that for one reason or another don’t justify a whole Display Daily. Or maybe I’m too lazy to do the research that would make a whole Display Daily …

Tags:5G| BOE| OLED Fabs| OLEDs| Production

A Drib and a Drab

by Ken Werner

From time to time, something comes along that’s interesting but doesn’t rate a Display Daily all to itself. Here are a pair of them. DRIB I am continually amazed that we can now buy …

Tags:Automotive| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)

TCL’s CSOT to Mass Produce Rollable Ink-Jet Printed OLEDs in 2024

by Ken Werner

Rollable OLEDs are nothing new. LG has been showing its OLED-R horizontally rollable TV display on the trade show circuit for years, and BOE has shown a rollable prototype. But in late October, TCL’s …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| InkJet Deposition| OLEDs| TVs (TV Sets)

Vehicular Display Makers Explore Dual-Cell LCD

by Ken Werner

The auto industry is comfortable with LCDs. They survive 150,000+ miles of over-the-road vibration and pounding, and tolerate temperatures from Siberian winters to Arizona summers. (Well, most of the time. Mazda 6 sedans circa …

Tags:Automotive| Dual Panel LCDs

Where’s E Ink?

by Ken Werner

E Ink dominates the market for ePaper, the class of reflective, very low power display films and panels. The company came to prominence with its monochrome electrophoretic technology, which offered — and still offers …

Tags:E Ink| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| eReaders| Reflective Display

When It Comes to Displays, China Wins

by Ken Werner

Most of us are generally aware that some electronics companies are moving their sources of display out of China. Even Foxconn, the China-friendly Tawan-based company that is China’s largest employer plans to move more …

Tags:BOE| China| CSOT| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs

TCL Hopes to Show IJP QDOLED TV at IFA 2021

by Ken Werner

On September 3, the first day of the hybrid IFA 2020 Conference in Berlin, I had a telephone interview with Marek Maciejewski, TCL Product Development Director for Europe. Maciejewski revealed that TCL might show …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| JOLED| QD OLEDs| Quantum Dots| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)

LCD’s Next Generation: MiniLED vs. Dual Cell

by Ken Werner

As a part of SID’s Display Week 2020 Shin-Tson Wu (Pegasus Professor at the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida) gave an invited paper entitled “High-Dynamic-Range MiniLED and Dual-Cell LCDs.” Let’s …

Tags:Dual Panel LCDs| MiniLED| OLED TVs| SID Display Week 2020

I Saw It, but I Didn’t Understand It

by Ken Werner

At the Pepcom show within a show at CES 2020 I saw some attractive miniLED demonstrations by a company called Rohinni (Coeur d’Alene, Idaho) and some additional nicely integrated miniLED applications in Rohinni’s nearby …

Tags:BOE| LCD Backlights| MiniLED