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Nokia Launches OZO Player SDK for VR

Nokia has released the Ozo Player SDK, which is designed to act as a cross-platform technology for VR video. The platform ...

Jusha Claims Global Patent for Mixed Mode Operation

Jusha of China is very ambitious to develop its business in Europe and has recently appointed a full time sales person ...

Content Creation Must Change with Consumption

There is a special guest at the DTG Summit every year, and in 2016 that was Nathalie Nahai, the ‘web psychologist’. ...

Analogix’s Market Proven DisplayPort over USB-C Solutions are Mobile Industry’s Top Choice, Over 10 Million Controllers and Transmitters Have Been Shipped

Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. today announced that it has now shipped more than 10 million DisplayPort™ over USB-C™ controllers and transmitters into ...

German Retail Sales to Rise

German trade association HDE expects a slight increase in retail sales in the country this year – which would make 2015 ...

Submissions to Hispasat’s 4k Festival Up 40%.

The shortlist for Hispasat’s 4k International Short Film Festival (Spain, September) contains 40% more films than the 2015 edition, Hispasat has ...

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IHS Markit Publishes Virtual Reality in Retail Blog

by Andrew Fenn

IHS has published a new blog detailing the discussion of a panel held at June’s Electronic Home Shopping Conference in Venice, Italy. The panel, featuring the blog’s author Maria Rua Aguete alongside three industry …

Tags:IHS Markit| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 30

CEC Panda Places $40 Million Order with Orbotech

by Andrew Fenn

Orbotech will be providing LCD panel manufacturer CEC Panda with $40 million worth of inspection, testing and repair solutions for the company’s next-generation fabrication facility in Chengdu, China. As part of the deal, Orbotech …

Tags:CEC Panda| China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 30

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Apple Drops to Third Place in Q2 Wearables Results

by Andrew Fenn

Xiaomi and Fitbit have overtaken Apple in the wearables market, which grew by 8% in Q2, according to new figures reported by Canalys. Xiaomi shipped 3.5 million units over the last three months. Meanwhile, …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 30| Wearable Market

Foxconn’s Sales Are Up in July

by Yvette Raikes

Foxconn Electronics posted July turnover of NT$315.1 billion ($10.4 billion), down slightly MoM but up 7.5% YoY. This resulted in revenue to date of NT$2.2 trillion ($72.5 billion), up 1.6%. The company said that …

Tags:Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 30

WiseChip Sees Strong Growth

by Yvette Raikes

WiseChip Semiconductor, which makes PMOLED panels, saw profit for the first half of the year of NT$127 million ($4.2 million) on turnover of NT$905 million ($29.8 million). In July revenue was NT$182 million ($6.0 …

Tags:Financial Data| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 30

TSMC Gears Up FinFET Production

by Bob Raikes

The Commercial Times in China has reported that TSMC is expected to start making 12nm FinFET chips in the fourth quarter of 2017. They will be used in Xavier CPUs and Volta GPUs for …

Tags:Chip Technology| Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TSMC| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Quanta Has Good Q2

by Yvette Raikes

Quanta Computer reported Q2 net profits of NT$3.98 billion ($131.2 million), up 13.6%, on turnover which rose 13.3% YoY to NT$235.37 billion ($7.8 billion). The company commented that it would have seen a decline …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quanta| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Better Be Flexible

by Norbert Hildebrand

One hot topic that we have been following over the years is flexible displays. The topic is of course related to the advent of OLED displays challenging LCD screens as the display of choice …

Tags:Flexible Batteries| Flexible Devices| Flexible Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 31

Is New Leadership Needed for Next Generation Cinema?

by Chris Chinnock

In a previous Display Daily, I claimed that the LED Cinema Era has Started. But what are the ramifications of this new technology entering a space that has so far been the exclusive domain …

Tags:Cinema| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Standards| Vol 24 - Issue 30

CR & Microsoft Dispute Reliability of Surface Products

by Bob Raikes

Consumer Reports (CR) in the US said that it was removing its recommendation of four of Microsoft’s notebook products and “cannot recommend any other Microsoft laptops or tablets because of poor predicted reliability”. The …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Articles Feature Information about DisplayPort

by Bob Raikes

We recently saw a number of interesting articles about DisplayPort, and published by hub-maker StarTech. The first article gives a brief overview of the DisplayPort Alt-Mode. A second article covers the MST mode that …

Tags:DisplayPort| Thunderbolt| Vol 24 - Issue 30