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Seiki Pushes to Change Brand Perception

by Tom Allen

China’s Seiki brand is keen to promote itself, rushing to become known as a maker of high-end products. It’s a turnaround for the company that many people know for launching the first sub-$1,000 UltraHD …

Panasonic Signs as Olympic Ceremony Partner

by Tom Allen

Panasonic, for the first time, will be an Official Ceremony Partner of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The company will provide more than 100 of its PT-DZ21K2 projectors, multiple broadcast-grade AV-HS6000 series …

And Finally – Vol 23 No 01

by Tom Allen

Late last year, Jaguar pulled what some might call ‘a stunt preying on peoples’ expectations’, and others would refer to as ‘brilliant marketing’. Let’s just say that it involves virtual reality – but, then …

Boldman Mounts LED Screen on Listed Building

by Tom Allen

Aluminium construction company, Boldman, is seeing increasing adoption of its frames for large-scale LED screens. Work was recently completed on a 13.9m x 7.8m x 0.6m framework for a screen (10mm pixel pitch, 6,000 …

Tags:Display Mounts| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Huawei: Europe Will Boost Phone Shipments

by Tom Allen

Sources in the handset supply chain say that Huawei expects to ship 120 million smartphones this year, up from 108 million last year and 75 million in 2014. The company believes that its business …

Tags:Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Casio’s Smartwatch Can Take a Beating

by Tom Allen

For the last two years, Casio’s press conference has been disappointingly light on display news – so we were happy to see a new smartwatch being announced, called the WSD-F10. Kazuhiro Kashio, president and …

Intel and Google Team Up on Realsense Phone

by Tom Allen

A smartphone developer kit with Intel’s Realsense and Google’s Project Tango (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 9) technology has been announced. The 6″ device (2560 x 1440 resolution) costs $400 and features a 0.3MP …

Top Chip Vendors Beat Market Downturn

by Tom Allen

Semiconductor revenue totaled $333.7 billion in 2015, a 1.9% YoY decrease from $340.3 billion a year earlier. The top 25 vendors’ combined revenue rose 0.2% and accounted for 73.2% of total market revenue. The …

Samsung Expects Profits Rise, Misses Estimate

by Tom Allen

Samsung has released its earnings guidance for Q4’15, estimating consolidated sales of KRW53 trillion ($43.5 billion), and operating profit of KRW6.1 trillion ($5 billion). The profit represents a 15% YoY rise, from KRW5.4 trillion …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 01

STMicroelectronics Has Sky Design Win

by Tom Allen

STMicroelectronics’ Cannes/Monaco family of SoCs are being used to power the Sky Q set-top boxes. The STBs will be available early this year. (Sky Shares UltraHD Launch Plans)

And Finally – Vol 23 No 02

by Tom Allen

The frog will haunt my dreams…It wasn’t all displays at CES: lots of news focused on the IoT. From smart wigs to smart socks, we’ve already seen lots of development in the space. But …

SiliconCore Enhances Common Cathode

by Tom Allen

SiliconCore has unveiled three new technologies to enhance its common cathode LED architecture. It has been working on them for more than two years. The first is a new LED driver chip called the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED Drivers| SiliconCore| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 01