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ViewSonic Named Best-Selling Collaboration Display Brand of 2018 Q1

by Andrew Fenn

Visual display solution provider, ViewSonic, took a 41.4% share of unit sales through distribution during the first quarter of 2018, according to The NPD Group. The company’s ViewBoard interactive flat panels also earned two …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| USA| ViewSonic| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Analog Devices Results 30/05/2018

by Vijaya

Analog Devices, Inc. announced its financial results for second fiscal quarter ended May 5, 2018. Revenue for Q2 2018 was $1.51 billion, an increase of 32%, compared to $1.14 billion in Q2 2017. Net …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

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Acer Result 09/05/2018

by Vijaya

Acer Inc. announced its financial results for the first quarter 2018 with net revenues of NT$54.8 billion ($1.84 billion), a decrease of 2.2%, compared to NT$56.1 billion ($1.88 billion) in Q1 2017. Net income …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Apple Announces New File Format for AR at WWDC 2018

by Norbert Hildebrand

At the just finished WWDC 2018 Apple introduced a new AR Kit 2 including a new file format for AR content. So far, every developer has created their own AR content within a software …

Tags:3D Formats| Apple| Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Mix AR Glasses Moving Towards Production

by Arthur Berman

ANTVR Technology Co., LTD (Beijing, China) has developed an AR glasses product that the company describes as small, lightweight, having large field of view and compatible with SteamVR. The product is called Mix and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Strategy Analytics: Smart Home Device Sales to Exceed Smartphones by 2023

by Andrew Fenn

Global demand for smart home devices will exceed sales of smartphones by 2023, according to Strategy Analytics. Consumers worldwide bought 664 million smart home devices in 2017 and this will increase to 1.94 billion …

Tags:Internet of Things IOT| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22

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Team Develops a Backplane Material Better than LTPS

by Ken Werner

In February a team of researchers from Binghamton University (Binghamton, New York), Blue Wave Semiconductors (Baltimore, Maryland), and Solar-Tectic LLC (Briarcliff Manor, New York) published an article in Elsevier Material Letters reporting “the growth …

Tags:Amorphous TFT| LTPS TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Ocean Outdoor Acquires Scottish Digital-Out-of-Home Firm

by Andrew Fenn

Ocean Outdoor has acquired Forrest Media, a leading provider of large format outdoor media solutions in Scotland, for £200 million ($267.7 million). The deal expands Ocean’s national footprint and enhances its position as a …

Tags:DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 25 - Issue 22

IHS: iPhone X Led Global Smartphone Unit Shipments in 2018 Q1

by Andrew Fenn

As global smartphone shipments reached 345.5 million units in the first quarter of 2018, Apple iPhone X was the leading model, with 12.7 million units shipped. According to IHS Markit, iPhone 8 ranked second, …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 22

Large Panel Shipments Rise in May

by Yvette Raikes

In May large panel shipments for the “big four” rose 13.2% MoM and 9.1% YoY to 20.928 million. AUO saw monthly revenue of NT$25.744 billion ($862 million), an increase of 5.2% MoM but down …

Tags:AUO| CPT| Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 22