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Taiwan small- to mid-size LCD panel shipments to grow sequentially in 2Q21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research said that Taiwan’s shipments of small- to medium-size LCD panels are expected to edge up 3.7% sequentially but decline 15% on year in the second quarter of 2021, after …

Tags:Small Medium LCDs| Taiwan

Hitachi & Vestel Launch Hospitality TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hitachi, via Vestel’s press agency, put out a release explaining the launch of a ‘vast new range’ of hospitality TVs from 32″ to 65″ and with support for Hitachi’s Hospitality Content …

Tags:Hitachi| Hospitality TVs| TVs (TV Sets)| Vestel

Global notebook shipments to surpass 62 million units in 2Q21

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Digitimes Research reported that notebook sales (excluding those with detachable keyboards) were down 8.7% sequentially in Q1 2021 to 57.51 million as good demand from education and gaming helped a smaller …

Tags:Chromebooks| Market Data| Notebooks

New DSCC Report on IJP

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a release to highlight its new report on Inkjet Printing technology for display manufacture. It covers both emitter deposition and colour conversion. From 2020 to 2025, IJP display capacity …

Tags:Forecasts| InkJet Deposition| Market Data| QD OLEDs

Apple to Launch a Foldable Phone Using AgNW in 2023

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is reported by MacRumors.com as saying that Apple is planning an 8″ QHD+ flexible OLED-based folding smartphone in 2023. Samsung is likely to be the exclusive …

Next-gen codecs set to disrupt transcoding for the next ten years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A new report from Rethink Research says that ‘fallout from HEVC’ is damaging the adoption of VVC, but AV1 adoption is rising because of Android TV and OTT delivery. At the …

Tags:Codecs| Forecasts| Market Data

Panasonic Likely to Outsource TV Production to TCL

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Kyodo News in Japan reported that Panasonic is thinking about closing its TV production plants in India and Vietnam and switching to TCL as an OEM supplier. A factory north of …

Tags:OLED TVs| Panasonic| TV Production| TVs (TV Sets)

Links for w/c 3rd May 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. The US Video Game Industry Is Thriving …

IMax to triple Japanese screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an interview with Bloomberg, the CEO of IMax said that it expects a strong rebound after the pandemic in Japan and plans to almost triple (from 39 now to 100) …

Tags:Barco| Cinema going| IMAX| Japan| PLF (Premium Large Format) Cinema

Facebook will keep investing heavily in AR and VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say During Facebook’s Q1 2021 earnings call, Marki Zuckerberg highlighted the continued investment in AR & VR as a key to ‘the next computing platform’. In a comment that was aimed at …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta| Financial Data| Investment| Virtual Reality

Dr. Isamu Akasaki, 92, Dies

by Bob Raikes

Isamu Akasaki in 2014 (cropped from Image source)What They Say On the 1st April, Professor. Isamu Akasaki, the Nobel Prize winning developer of blue LEDs, died in Nagoya Japan. He was 92. He won …

Tags:Awards| Japan| LED

ISE Amsterdam and Germany Cancelled

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ISE has decided to cancel the Munich and Amsterdam events that it was planning after the full Barcelona event was modified to four regional events. The events in Barcelona and London …

Tags:Germany| ISE 2021| Spain| UK (United Kingdom)