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by Yvette Raikes
Following a downturn in 2015, the semiconductor market saw some recovery in 2016 with 2% growth, according to IHS Markit. Worldwide turnover reached $352.4 billion, up from $345.6 billion. Part of the reason was …
Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 12
by Yvette Raikes
Compal is to purchase a 2.15% stake in Leshi Zhixin Electronic Technology, a TV-making subsidiary of LeEco. Compal will pay CNY700 million ($102 million) and Compal president, Ray Chen, says that this is to …
Tags:Compal| Large Display Monitor| LeEco (formerly LeTV)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 12
by Yvette Raikes
MediaTek has already increased its holding in IC specialist affiliate Airoha Technology to 69.6%. The company will now buy the remaining shares and the two firms will merge. Airoha will be delisted from the …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mediatek| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 12
by Yvette Raikes
There is a big difference in statistics on TV content provision between the USA as a whole and rural North America. 82% of rural households still use more traditional video service providers, with just …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 12
by Yvette Raikes
Ocean Outdoor and BBC Three are combining to show TV content on city centre Wi-fi-enabled screens in the UK. BBC Three hopes that this will give them access to “light” TV viewers – those …
Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 10
by Yvette Raikes
During its review of the past financial year, Hong Kong IC maker Solomon Systech said that sales of its PMOLED display drivers had seen strong growth. The drivers have also attracted new design wins …
Tags:Display Drivers| Mobile Display Monitor| PMOLED| Vol 24 - Issue 10| Wearables
by Yvette Raikes
Sharp plans to increase its LCD TV sales by four times over the next four years, according to Japanese sources as reported by Digitimes. In the company’s current financial year (April 2016 to March …
Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Manufacturing| sharp| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 10
by Yvette Raikes
Following the successful 4K Ultra HD broadcast of college basketball, Fox Sports and DirecTV will deliver 4K NASCAR racing on April 1st on DirecTV’s on-demand video service. Major league baseball and NBA games in …
Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 10
by Yvette Raikes
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has announced a 360 degree interactive VoD format for its advertisers called Ad 360 through its subsidiary, 4Sales. Viewers using the All 4 VoD service will be able to immerse …
Tags:360 Degree Video| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 10
by Yvette Raikes
With more methods of watching TV entering the market, the share of broadband households in the US which have pay-TV has dropped according to analyst TDG, reported by Advanced Television. In 2011, 9% (just …
Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| TV Viewing| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 10
by Yvette Raikes
In Spain, Euskaltel is said to be about to acquire regional cable network Telecable for €750 million ($804 million). Euskaltel has already bought R Company, so this is further consolidation of the Spanish cable …
Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Spain| Vol 24 - Issue 10
by Yvette Raikes
The $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T has been approved by the European Commission. The commission concluded that there were no competition concerns, since there were no overlaps between the two companies’ …
Tags:AT&T| Cable| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 10
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