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Samsung uses last year’s OLED material set for S22 Ultra

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung is using the same OLED material set – described as the M11 set – on the Galaxy S22 Ultra as it used on the S21 Ultra …

Tags:AMOLED| iPhone| OLED Materials| Samsung| Smartphones

AUO Optimistic about LTPS Automotive Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported on the automotive market for displays and spoke to AUO which said that it is basing a lot of new projects in that sector on LTPS backplanes. The site …

Tags:AUO| Automotive| LCD displays| LTPS TFT| Market Data| Pricing

DSCC Sees Continued Strong Growth for Foldables

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC updated on its latest Foldable/Rollable Report and highlighted that panel shipments more than tripled to 10 million in 2021, up 207%. Smartphone shipments were 6% better than forecast at 7.98 …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Notebooks| Smartphone Market

Omdia Reveals LGE OLED TV Numbers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED-Info reported data, attributed to Omdia, on LG Electronics’ 2021 shipments which were over 4 million in 2021, more than double the level of 2020. In Q4, the firm shipped 1.9 …

Tags:Market Data| OLED TVs| Transparent Displays| Xiaomi

Notion Systems Supplies InkJet to ITRI

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Notion Systems of Germany said that it has supplied an inkjet printing system developed in collaboration with MBraun of Germany, to ITRI In Taiwan. ITRI is now using the new n.jet …

Tags:Germany| InkJet Deposition| R&D (Research & Development)| Taiwan

Samsung, LG dominate global TV market with premium models

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Well, it’s not exactly news to those that watch the market, but the Korea Herald reported data from Omdia that gave Samsung top position in the TV market for the sixteenth …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| OLED TVs| Quantum Dots| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)

Gurman Clarifies Expected Products

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple watcher, Mark Gurman reported on the products that he expects to see this year in his Power On subscriber newsletter. He listed: A new Mac mini with an M1 …

Tags:Apple

Sharp CEO Tai steps down after 6-year turnaround under Foxconn

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Sharp CEO Tai Jeng-Wu will step down at the end of March after 6 years in the post following his appointment by Foxconn founder Terry Gou. His successor …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Recruitment & Appointments| sharp

Matterport Doing Well With Digital Twins

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As part of our coverage of AR & VR over the years, we have reported on Matterport, a developer of digital twins of properties, since 2015, although we haven’t reported on …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Augmented Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 21st February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Digitimes reported that Apple has conducted ‘second-phase …

Tags:AMD| Apple| Augmented Reality| GPUs| Intel| Recruitment & Appointments| Samsung| Smartphones| sony| TVs (TV Sets)

LG 42″ C2 OLED TV Same Price as 48″

by Bob Raikes

What They Say John Lewis in the UK is taking orders for this year’s LG 42″ C2 OLED and has published a price of £1,399 ($1,575 + tax), the same price as the 48″ …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Pricing

Qualcomm is adding AV1 support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm is reported by Protocol Entertainment to be developing a chip, the SM8550, due at the end of the year or later, that will support AV1 native decoding. The article reports …

Tags:Codecs| HBO| Netflix| Qualcomm| Samsung| YouTube