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Google Raxium Acquisition is Confirmed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported rumours that Google was to buy Raxium, a developer of MicroLEDs back in March and that deal has now been confirmed in several places. The Information’s Reality Check said …

Tags:| Google| Mergers & Acquisitions| MicroLED

Schott in vivo X Fold

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A couple of weeks ago we heard that Vivo has launched the x Fold in China and now we have heard that both the exterior glass used is Schott’s Xensation ? …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Glass| Smartphones

New JVC Projectors Are for Simulation

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies, in my recent IT²EC report, I missed highlighting that JVC has a couple of new projectors based on its DCI-4K (4096 x 2160) D-ILA LCOS chips. There is a 4K …

Tags:JVC| LCOS| Projectors| Simulation

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BOE almost made no iPhone OLED panels since February

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that BOE has only made a small number of OLED panels since February. This was initially because of a shortage of drivers (with LX Semicon reported to be …

Tags:Apple| BOE| OLEDs| Supply Chain

First 240Hz OLED in a Razer Notebook

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Razer’s new Blade 15 is the first notebook to feature a 15.6″ 2560 x 1440 (16:9) OLED display with 240Hz refresh rate. Previously, the firm had offered 60Hz UltraHD OLEDs and …

Tags:Game Playing| Notebooks| OLEDs

LCD TV panel prices to keep falling in May

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Quoting Chinese researcher Sigmaintell as a source, Digitimes confirmed the general view in the market that TV panel prices will continue to decline with 32″ to 55″ units slipping $2-4 per …

Tags:LCD displays| Pricing

US TV Panel Pricing Still Declining – DSCC

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sweta summarised how LCD panel prices are going in her DD on Monday (When Can LCD TV Panel Prices Stop Declining?) and just as we published it, DSCC updated its thoughts …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)| USA

Pete Palomaki Tears Down Another Broken TV

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DD contributor Pete Palomaki posted a video showing a teardown of a broken TCL 5 Series TV and found that the FALD LED backlight had YAG phosphor LEDs. The set is …

Tags:LCD Backlights| LED| Phosphors| Quantum Dots| Teardowns| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)

Links Week Mid-Week Week Ending 6th May 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the middle part of this week. Market and finance results from Q1 …

Tags:Apple| Codecs| Desktop Monitors| DLP Projectors| Financial Data| Intel| Kopin| Samsung| Satellite| SES| Sky| Streaming Video| SVOD| UK (United Kingdom)| Virgin Media| Virtual Reality

ETH Zurich Explains VR as Enabler of Asynchronous Work

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The ETH Zurich in Switzerland made a ten minute video that showed its concept of how intellectual working life could be made more efficient by managing actual and virtual events that …

Tags:R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality