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Polariser Prices Continue to Fall

Polariser prices have dropped by about 3% per quarter for ‘the last few quarters’, sources have said, with the trend expected ...

Boogie Board Sync: More than Meets the Eye

While Kent Displays (Kent, Ohio) – a struggling developer of cholesteric liquid-crystal technology – was converting itself into a successful consumer-products ...

Innolux Predicts 30%+ UltraHD Share in Q4

Innolux president JC Wang has told Asian media that UltraHD TV shipments will reach 30 million this year. Panel pricing has ...

Roku Boosts its Share in the US

According to research from Parks Associates, in Q1 of 2017, 7% of streaming media players owned by U.S. broadband households were ...

France: Total Begins 700MHz Trial

Total Telecom has received a temporary licence from French broadcast regulator CSA, to trial mobile telecom services in the 700MHz band. ...

Quantum Materials Begins Shipping Cadmium-Free Red and Green Quantum Dots

Rapidly growing North American quantum dot manufacturer Quantum Materials Corp (OTCQB:QTMM) today announced it has begun shipping Cadmium-free red and green ...

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AUO’s Sales and Shipments Decline

by Helen Vince

AU Optronics (AUO) saw sales and panel shipments decline in February. Revenue for the month of NT$28.3 billion ($895.8 million) was 11.8% lower than January and broadly flat year on year, taking sales so …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10

20% Fall Forecast for PCs

by Tom Allen

Efforts to clear inventory have limited PC shipments worldwide in Q1’15. It is thought in Taiwan that this will cause a 20% QoQ fall in shipments, according to ODMs and component makers. PC demand …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Razer Switches LCD For OLED on Open-Source Headset

by Tom Allen

Photo credit: CNetRazer has shown a new prototype of its OSVR headset, first seen at CES (Razer Strikes Nvidia’s Shield). The original used an LCD display, which has now been changed for an OLED. …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Razer| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Samsung Reaches Pre-Order Record

by Tom Allen

Samsung has said that pre-orders for its new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphones have reached record levels. 20 million orders had been placed by mobile operators at the end of the weekend following …

Tags:Curved Displays| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Production Capacity| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Sony Agrees Licensing With Microvision

by Vanessa Browning

Sony has licensed Microvision’s PicoP laser beam scanning (LBS) pico projector technology. The company will pay an $8 million upfront license fee, as well as royalty payments. Microvision and Sony have been working together …

Tags:Back Panel| Embedded Pico Projectors| Large Display Monitor| Microvision| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 11

CPT’s Monthly Sales Down 21.4%

by Helen Vince

Chughwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a 21.4% month on month and 18.4% year on year fall in sales last month to NT$3.8 billion ($120.2 million). February’s result brought sales to date to NT$8.6 billion …

Tags:CPT| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 11

Thumbs Up! Takes a Lesson From Tier Ones

by Tom Allen

An American company, Thumbs Up!, has introduced its own VR headset – although it doesn’t have a display. In the style of Google Cardboard the Samsung’s Gear VR, the Immerse Virtual Reality Headset is …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 11

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NHK and Forza Silicon Present 133 Mpixel 60 fps Image Sensor

by Matthew Brennesholtz

At the recent IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in San Francisco February 22 – 26, R. Funatsu from NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, (STRL) (Tokyo, Japan) and 11 of his colleagues …

Tags:Cameras| Mobile Display Monitor| NHK| Sensors| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Apple Watch to Ship 15 Million Units Worldwide in 2015

by Helen Vince

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, the Apple Watch smartwatch will ship 15 million units worldwide in 2015. Apple will quickly become the world’s number one smartwatch vendor with 55 percent global …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Wearable Market

MPEG LA Introduces License for DisplayPort

by Helen Vince

MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the DisplayPort Patent Portfolio License. The DisplayPort License provides coverage for a variety of digital interface technology standards used in connecting audio/video sources among products such …

Tags:DisplayPort| Licensing

LG Defends HDR OLED, Promises Product in 2015

by Tom Allen

John Archer, writing for Forbes, has discovered that LG plans to launch an OLED HDR ‘solution’ this year. OLED has been criticised recently, mainly by LG’s competitors who do not have their own OLED …

Tags:AMOLED| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED Fabs| OLED TVs| Vol 22 - Issue 11

SID Adds Automotive to 2015 Display Week

by Tom Allen

SID’s Display Week will run from 31st May to the 5th June in San Jose this year. New to the 2015 show will be the addition of vehicle displays. There will also be technical …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 11