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UDC Breaks Cover on new OLED Blue

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In its quarterly earnings call, UDC said that it has extended its deals with LG Display, Visionox and Tianma as well as announcing a new plant to be established with PPG, …

Tags:Financial Data| OLED Fabs| OLED Materials| OLEDs| UDC

Google Promotes Chrome for Digital Signage, Again

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sixteen-nine.net reports that Google is making another approach to the digital signage market as there is a new version of Chrome, the Chrome OS Flex, that can run on existing devices …

Tags:Digital Signage| Google| Operating Systems

Samsung Display to Add Solus as a Supplier for OLED M12 Material

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Samsung Display is adding Solus Advanced Materials is adding Solus Advanced Materials as a supplier for capping layers (CPL) in its M12 OLED material set which was …

Tags:Merck| OLED Materials| Samsung Display

BOE demonstrates a new foldable OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GizChina reported that BOE has shown a prototype flexible OLED (f-OLED) that can be in- and out-folded to make an N shape. It has a maximum diagonal of 12.3″ when open, …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices

Attention, the next 800 meters are LED!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis has reported that Samsung has used an 800 metre long LED advert along a motorway in Utrecht in the Netherlands. There are two large (106.5 m²) screens and a large …

Tags:LED| Netherlands| Outdoor Displays

DSCC Highlights Glass Growth

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog post (free registration needed) that included extracts from its latest display glass report and reported that glass shipments increased by 13% in 2021 to a record level …

Tags:Corning| Glass| Market Data

Analyst: Are the console wars over?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Market researcher Dataxis released its estimates of console sales by Sony and Microsoft in the ‘console wars’, with the result (17 million for Sony, 12 million for Microsoft) suggesting that Sony …

Tags:Consoles| Market Data

Links Week Ending 25th February 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 second part of this week. (Apologies – this should have been …

Tags:Apple| Barco| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Game Playing| Google| Interactive Displays| Market Data| Materials| Mediatek| Motion Capture| Qualcomm| R&D (Research & Development)| Semiconductor Market| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| ViewSonic| Wireless

HP and Lenovo Chromebooks expected to support Steam

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Google spotted that a plan for Chromebooks to support the Steam gaming service might be getting close as it said that Google now has timelines on the implementation. The site found …

Tags:Chromebooks| Game Playing| GPUs| Nvidia

Researchers Taken Facial Recognition in VR to a New Level

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from Australia, New Zealand and India have used facial recognition technology to use users’ expressions to trigger actions in virtual environments, potentially reducing the need for hand-held controllers. Smiling, frowning …

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

BOE Develops 8K 120 Hz Panel

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association contacted BOE to get more information about a 110″ 8K 120Hz LCD that had been developed. The article points out that the panel uses the same technology as …

Tags:BOE| HFR - High Frame Rate| LCD Panels| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)