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Smartphone Booms as Watch Woes Continue for Apple

by Steve Sechrist

The WSJ (Wall Street Journal) today reported Apple is getting the lion’s share (a whopping 92%) of all profits in the booming smartphone industry. The chart on the right shows global operating profits in …

Apple Watch Display Reflectance Unveiled

by Steve Sechrist

Once again, in the pursuit of “state-of-the-art” displays, we are getting a peek with the DisplayMate Labs microscope into an Apple Watch display shoot-out. This time, founder Dr. Raymond Soneira, announced an in-depth review …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Colour (Color)| Sapphire| Shoot Outs| Vol 22 - Issue 27

Wearables Waiting for the Advent of Soft Electronics

by Steve Sechrist

The Apple Watch is now shipping with predictions it will bust all records for the nascent wearable category, with the lift coming primarily from the fan-boy base (OK, girls too) that believes Apple can …

Fraunhofer Shows Bidirectional SVGA Microdisplay at SID

by Steve Sechrist

The Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics group was at SID Display Week 2015 with a new SVGA Bi-directional Microdisplay OLED chip that can both reproduce and record images. The OLED on silicon display …

Next Gen Microdisplay Discussed at SID – AM LEDs

by Steve Sechrist

One of the more profound papers on core microdisplay (MD) technology advancement at SID Display Week came from a Columbia University start-up company, Lumiode. In Session 26.2 the team led by Dr. Brian Tull …

Tags:Microdisplays| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Automotive Displays Come of Age at SID Display Week

by Steve Sechrist

New at this years SID Display Week was the special coverage of vehicle displays. Long a niche market for LCD fabs, the space is still dominated by the top automotive component integrators like Continental, …

4DD’s Refocus on SLM Business

by Steve Sechrist

4thDD’s Spatial Light Modulator components including the 2048 x 1536 pixel QXGA-3DM SLM shown at SID Display Week 2015At this year’s SID Display Week we took time to talk with ForthDD’s CEO Greg Truman …

3D in IZone at Display Week 2015

by Steve Sechrist

At Display Week 2015, in the prototype IZone booth, 3D display was alive and well. One such autostereoscopic (no glasses) technology came from a Shenzhen, China company, SuperD 3D technology, with its 3D mobile …

Ubiquitous Energy is Display Week IZone Prototype Winner

by Steve Sechrist

Winner of this year’s Best I-Zone Prototype at Display Week 2015 award was Ubiquitous Energy, an MIT start-up now based in Redwood City, CA that was showing a demo of “the world’s first truly …

Tags:Environment| Large Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Solar Panels| Steve Sechrist

E Ink Upgrades Colour Announces Shelf Label Partnership

by Steve Sechrist

At SID Display Week 2015, we took time to meet with global marketing director of E Ink Holdings, Giovani Mancini to discuss the latest developments in the E Ink (e paper) universe. This includes …

IHS Business Conference Kicks Off SID

by Steve Sechrist

At the (almost) standing room only Display Week Business Conference to kick off the Society for Information Display’s yearly symposium and expo, the pre-show audience was flooded with marketing data from presentations documenting the …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| IHS DisplaySearch| Market Data| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 23

An SID Display Week iZone Sneak Peek

by Steve Sechrist

Word on the street is that this year’s iZone (short for Innovation Zone) at the upcoming Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week will feature some hot new micro display module technology from Korea-based …