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Lextar Catches Up on Touch Taiwan

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lextar sent out a press release describing what it had shown at Touch Taiwan last week. The firm highlighted a number of applications but also linked to the Ennostar image gallery …

Tags:MicroLED| MiniLED| Touch Taiwan 2021

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Apple With Backlight Supply Chain Challenge

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported rumours that Apple may have had problems with supply of its new miniLED XDR display-based iPad Pro because of low yield from TSMT. Separately, Trendforce identified Yenrich as …

Tags:Apple| iPad| MiniLED| tablets

Apple Commits $430 Billion in US Investments Over Five Years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple said that it planned to invest $430 billion in the US over the next five years and committed to build a new North Carolina Campus in the Research Triangle Area. …

Tags:Apple| Investment| R&D (Research & Development)| USA

FPD Revenues to Increase 28% in 2021 to Record $151 Billion

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC posted a blog article that highlighted the strong growth in FPD revenues to a record forecast of $151 billion in 2021 although revenues are likely to flatten from 2022. Mobile …

Tags:AUO| BOE| CSOT| Innolux| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display| sharp

Acer Predator X25 360 Hz Monitor Review: Raw Power and Speed for eSports

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Toms Hardware has had a good look at an Acer Predator X25 360Hz monitor and described it as “The ultimate display for no-holds-barred gaming systems”. The 24.5″ FullHD IPS monitor is …

Tags:Acer| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HFR - High Frame Rate| Testing

Apple Wins a Patent for ‘Thermal Touch’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Patently Apple blog reported that Apple has got a patent for ‘thermal touch’ based on using data from infrared sensors. The technology is reported to be based on work done …

Tags:Apple| Patents| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch

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AUO Announces 32” 8K Panel Aimed at Editing

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say I had put aside a Digitimes article about a new 8K 32″ panel for professional monitors from AUO. I was just about to dig into it when I saw that Chris, …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Testing

The importance of touch-to-display response time in gaming

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DXOMark, the organisation that we tend to report when judging the image quality of cameras, has published an article about the importance of the response time of touch, especially in game …

Tags:Smartphones| Testing| Touch

IBC in September – or December

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The organisers of IBC have confirmed that they have a ‘fall-back’ plan to move the 2021 event back to December 3rd – 6th from the currently scheduled dates from September 10th …

Tags:Events| IBC 2021

Absen Live–Exploring Virtual Studio

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Absen, the LED specialist, is planning a series of webinars on topics related to the use of LEDs and the first of these is around the use of LEDs in Virtual …

Tags:Absen| Events| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Virtual Sets