Gartner Says Tablet Sales Continue to Be Slow in 2015
by Helen Vince
After a troubled year in 2014, the global tablet market is not returning to the levels of growth seen in the last four years as demand for tablets will continue to be slow in …
FlatFrog InGlass Wins PC OEM
by Tom Allen
Flatfrog Laboratories is ramping up production of its InGlass touch modules for AIO PCs, which will be used by an unnamed ‘top tier’ OEM in North America. Shipments began in December. The first AIO …
Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch PCs| Vol 22 - Issue 03
Casio Has Plans for Core Business
by Tom Allen
At BETT, Casio was launching the Core – a new laser-LED hybrid projector that is positioned for mass-market adoption. As a solid-state model, the Core has a long lifetime, with no filters or lamps …
Tags:BETT 2015| Casio| Hybrid LED (Laser)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 05
Xiaomi Doubled Revenue in 2014
by Helen Vince
Xiaomi reported that it more than doubled its revenue last year, with pre-tax sales rising to almost $12 billion. The company’s mobile phone sales were 227% higher than the previous year, reaching 61.1 million …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Xiaomi
Rumour: Flexible OLEDs From Foxconn Next Year
by Tom Allen
Asian sources claim that Foxconn is developing flexible OLED panel technology and expects to send out 5″ samples in 2016. Reports from Japanese media say that the panels will be used on smartphones and …
Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 22 - Issue 04
Global LED backlighting production value to fall 10% in 2015, say Taiwan makers
by Vanessa Browning
The value of LED backlighting production will fall by about 10% this year, say Taiwanese LED makers, as TV and tablet production value falls. Both smartphones and TVs will represent about 30% of production …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| TV Production| Vol 22 - Issue 04
Sensio’s UltraHD 3D Format is Lossless
by Tom Allen
Sensio Technologies has launched a new 3D format called Sensio 3D/4K, which is optimised for UltraHD 3D TVs. The format enables the distribution of high-definition 3D content, without stereoscopic compression loss. It is compatible …
Tags:3D| 3D Formats| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 04
Sigma Launches UltraHD VP9/HEVC Chip
by Bob Raikes
The first topic that we discussed with Sigma Designs was HDR technology. Sigma was the first company to support Dolby Vision technology in its SoCs and both TCL and Philips have shown sets that …
Tags:CES 2015| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sigma Designs| SOCs| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 03
Opera SDKs Arrive on Android TVs
by Vanessa Browning
The latest smart TVs using Android L will be shipped with a Blink-based rendering engine from Opera Software. The SDK 4.x series will be launched on Sony TVs and the 3.x series on TCL …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04
Display Daily goes Live!
by Bob Raikes
It may be slightly crazy as we all dash around for CES, but the holiday (?) gave us the chance to finalise the build of the new website at DisplayDaily.com. From now on, our …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor
Roku Announces Roku TV 4K Plans
by Helen Vince
4k – Roku, Inc.announced its plans to support 4K Ultra HD streaming for future Roku TV™ models. The company has prepared a Roku TV reference design for 4K smart TVs for license to TV …
Cambrios Collaborates with LGE to Win Dozens of Touch Sensor Designs
by Helen Vince
Touch panels –Cambrios Technologies Corporation, the leader in silver nanowire-based solutions for the transparent conductor markets, and the CEM (Chemical & Electronic Material) Business Division of LG Electronics (LG), announced that LG has achieved …
