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Subdued Demand for Taiwan’s Tech Exports Gives Worst GDP Projections in 8 Years

by Omid Rahmat

Taiwan’s real GDP contracted by 0.41% in Q4’22 from the same period in the previous year, primarily due to a decrease in exports and manufacturing. In 2023, Taiwan’s real GDP is projected to grow …

Tags:electronics| Market Data| Semiconductor Market

SmartKem Joins Hi-Accµracy Project Developing Active-Matrix Printed Q-LED Displays

by Omid Rahmat

The collaborative Hi-Accµracy project brings together eleven of the most innovative and forward-thinking companies in the industry in a bid to establish the next generation of organic and large area electronics (OLAE) – including …

Tags:OLAE| OTFT| QD OLEDs| SmartKem

2022 Large Format Display Demand was Soft

by Omid Rahmat

Supply issues resolved for much of the flat panel market by mid-2022. Inventory for FPDs grew in the second half of the year with demand much softer compared to earlier in the year. Projector …

Tags:LFD - Large Format Display| PMA Research| Projectors

Chip Makers Scramble for Federal Money

by Omid Rahmat

The CHIPS Act is creating a frenzy of activity around its over $200 billion in financial incentives and additional tax breaks. To stop China from becoming an advanced power in semiconductors and to maintain …

Tags:Intel| Manufacturing| Samsung| TSMC

Display Manufacturers Go Green Because it Makes Sense

by Omid Rahmat

Display companies are getting onboard with sustainable manufacturing, the process of designing and producing products in an environmentally responsible and resource-efficient manner. Products are being built with a view to energy efficiency, the use …

Tags:FPD| ISO| LCD| Recycling| RTINGS.com| Sustainability| TVs

Someone Leaked Tianma’s Tiptoeing Into VR

by Omid Rahmat

Last year, the Chinese microelectronics firm had shown its first VR display at the World Display Industry Conference in Chengdu. Now, it’s got Reddit wondering what is going on. It could all turn out …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Tianma| Virtual Reality

LCD Panel Orders From TV Makers Increasing in Q2’23 by 8%

by Omid Rahmat

Demand from South Korean and Chinese TV makers is set to turnaround in the second quarter of this year despite weak demand in the first quarter, according to research by Omdia. In Q2’23, orders …

Tags:LCD Panels| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung| TVs

New Research on Metasurface Technology Could Lead to Cheaper, Better, More Efficient Displays

by Omid Rahmat

Metasurfaces are 100 times thinner than liquid crystal cells, offer a ten-fold increase in resolution, and consume half the power. Metasurface technology is a type of engineered material that can control the propagation of …

Tags:LCD| LED| Metasurfaces| research

Do You Need Netflix to Endorse Your Displays?

by Omid Rahmat

A recent product announcement went out with a big splash on “Netflix officially sponsored” and it’s hard to understand what that means.

Tags:Netflix| Projectors| TVs (TV Sets)

Global TV Shipments Tilt Favorably Towards China’s Leading Brands

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung may be the number one TV brand for seventeen years running, but it’s China’s HiSense and TCL who are the real winners. It seems like HiSense was a little irked about Samsung’s PR …

Tags:Hisense| Market Data| TVs (TV Sets)

SmartKem’s World First: A Monolithic MicroLED Using Thin-Film Transistors

by Omid Rahmat

SmartKem claims to have created the world’s first monolithic micro-LED display using organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The company believes that its method of processing a thin-film transistor backplane on top of Gallium Nitride LEDs …

Tags:MicroLED| SmartKem

S23 Ultra Closes in on Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max and 14 Pro on Display Benchmarks

by Omid Rahmat

The Dxomark for Samsung’s latest smartphone, the S23 Ultra, shows marked improvements over the S22 Ultra making it the best Android phone on the market, and the best for video performance, overall. It may …

Tags:Android| DXOMARK| Samsung