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Links Week Commencing 11th October 2021

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. Sony to join TSMC on new $7bn …

Tags:Dolby Vision| Financial Data| Google| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Patents| Semiconductors| sharp| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony

Barco Explains RPC Screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported last week on an upgrade to Barco’s MVL-721 and commented that there were two kinds of front screen, but that we couldn’t find out what they were. (Barco Updates …

Tags:Barco| Control Rooms| Projection Cubes| Projection Screens| Rear Projection

Innolux & AUO Report on September

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Innolux & AUO released their monthly reports. AUO was up 35.3% in sales for the third quarter over 2020 although area shipped was down 6.1% over the same period. Innolux said …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Innolux

Holograms get real: Startup creates objects out of light and thin air

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article by CNet drew our attention to a Silicon Valley start-up that is developing light field displays, Light Field Lab. Investors in the firm include Samsung, Comcast and Verizon. According …

Tags:Holographic Displays| Investment| R&D (Research & Development)

Valve VR Headsets Gaining Popularity

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Road to VR reports that the Valve Index headset is the second most used VR headset on the Steam platform, behind the all-conquering Oculus Quest 2. Although relatively expensive at $1,000, …

Tags:Market Data| Virtual Reality

Close Up of the Nintendo Switch OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge has taken a close-up shot of a Nintendo OLED Switch console and showed that it doesn’t have the pentile matrix pattern of pixels that are seen on Samsung smartphones. …

Tags:Nintendo Consoles| OLED Fabs| Samsung

K&S Starts Shipping New MiniLED & MicroLED Equipment

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kulicke & Soffa said that it has started to ship its Luminex ‘next generation mini and microLED solution’. The firm said that the step is the culmination of several years’ development …

Tags:MicroLED| MiniLED| Production Equipment