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RTBf Goes 100% Eizo

by Tom Allen

Belgium’s national broadcaster for the French-speaking community, RTBf, uses several Eizo touch screens in its studios. New screens were installed recently in a round of modernisation. Eizo’s 17″ Flexscan T1781, combined with the 23″ …

Tags:Back Panel| Belgium| Broadcasters| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Intel’s Refresh Drives Axiomtek Player

by Tom Allen

OPS883 is Axiomtek’s newest digital signage player, supporting UltraHD resolution and dual displays. It is based on Intel’s 22nm ‘Haswell Refresh’ chips. The OPS architecture means that the player can be slotted into the …

Tags:Intel| Large Display Monitor| Media Players| OPS| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Eyevis is Well Ahead in IBC Preparations

by Tom Allen

Eyevis has announced its plans for IBC 2015 (11th – 15th September), in Amsterdam. The company, on stand 9.B24, will showcase many of its display products. These will include a new slim (422mm-thick) rear-projection …

Tags:Back Panel| Events| Eyevis| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Photographer Snaps Apple Watch Close-Up

by Tom Allen

Scientist and photographer Bryan Jones has put the Apple Watch’s display under the microscope. Of course, the sub-pixel arrangement looks very different to that of the LCD-based iPhone; the blue sub-pixels are much larger …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| pixels| Vol 22 - Issue 28

White Box Phablets in First-Ever Decline

by Tom Allen

According to Etmag, Chinese vendors’ white-box phablet shipments suffered their first-ever YoY decline (-15%) in Q2’15. Poor market conditions and growing branded phablet shipments contributed to the fall. Sales of white-box units have been …

Tags:China| Emerging Markets| Mobile Display Monitor| phablets| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Android Gaining Popularity in Embedded Applications

by Tom Allen

VIA Technologies has conducted a worldwide survey on the uses of Android as an embedded platform. 93% of the roughly 250 respondents were already or were considering its use, with the majority (28%) looking …

Tags:Android| Digital Signage| Digital Signage Software| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 28

CSOT On Track for Q1’17 Production

by Tom Allen

Image credit: OLED-InfoIt has been reported that construction of CSOT’s upcoming G6 LTPS fab in Wuhan, China, is ahead of schedule. Mass production will begin in Q1’17, and the facility will produce small- and …

Tags:China| CSOT| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| LTPS TFT| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Rumour: LGD Aims at 12 Million 4k OLED TVs by 2020

by Tom Allen

ET News, from Korea, has posted a chart that it claims shows LG Display’s own UltraHD OLED TV production forecast.

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED TVs| Production| Supply Chain| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 28

BBC Micro Returns to UK Schools

by Tom Allen

The BBC, working with ARM, Microsoft and Samsung, has finalised the design of a tiny computer, which will be supplied – for free – to every Year 7 schoolchild (11 year-olds) in the UK …

Tags:Arm| Back Panel| BBC| Education| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Intel Postpones Kaby Lake, Following Skylake Delays

by Tom Allen

Intel delayed the release of its Skylake processors earlier this year, until August for desktops and Q4 for notebooks. Now we hear that the next-generation 14nm Kaby Lake processors will also be held back. …

Tags:Chips| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 22 - Issue 28

SDC Slashes Pricing to Raise Orders

by Tom Allen

According to sources in Taiwan, Samsung Display has lowered its smartphone panel pricing to various customers, in order to raise orders. The move was taken due to Samsung Electronics’ lower-than-expected smartphone sales. Microsoft is …

Tags:LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Semiconductors Enter 25th Month of Growth

by Tom Allen

Global semiconductor sales rose 5.1% YoY in May 2015, says the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Sales reached $28.2 billion, up from $26.8 billion May 2014. They were 2.1% higher than April’s sales of $27.6 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 22 - Issue 28| Worldwide