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LG Display to supply more OLED panels to Apple for iPhones in 2021

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Quoting data from Omdia, The Elec in Korea reported that Apple will see a boost of 47.6% in iPhone shipments this year, to 169 million from 114.5 million. The suppliers of …

Research: Over 8m TV sets sold in UK in 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced Television interviewed Futuresource Consulting about the UK TV set market which it calculates at 8 million sets in 2020. The firm interviewed buyers in June 2020 and found that the …

Tags:Market Data| TV Set Market| UK (United Kingdom)

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump

by Bob Raikes

What They Say To the surprise of nobody in the display analyst community, we suspect, Reuters reported that Foxconn has formally acknowledged that its planned ‘Wisconsin project’, backed by ex-President Trump, will not be …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large LCD Supply| USA

Subsidies for Booming China-EU Rail Link Unsustainable, Maersk Exec Tells Boao Forum

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Caixin reports that shipping specialist, Maersk China, suggested that Chinese subsidies for rail transport from China to the EU are not sustainable. In 2020, China-Europe freight trains made a total of …

Tags:China| Supply Chain| Transport

HTC Vive Air VR Fitness is ‘Only a Concept’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A concept for a new ‘Air’ headset developed by HTC has been leaked after appearing in a Design Guide. It has up to four cameras and was conceived to be light …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality

Toyota Moves Instruments in Console

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Toyota made a big announcement about its future plans for 70 electric and electrified vehicles by 2025. We noticed the interesting change in the instrument display in the bZ4X SUV concept. …

Tags:Automotive

Barco Reveals Q1 Progress

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Barco reported its results for Q1 2021 and saw a boost of 21% in orders compared to Q4 2020 and up 10% compared to a year ago to €228.9 million. Sales …

Tags:Barco| Financial Data

Apple Brings XDR MiniLED Technology to the iPad

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Apple held an event to launch a number of non-iPhone (mainly) products that featured: New iPad Pros with a miniLED ‘Liquid Retina XDR’ display and using its own M1 chip A …

Ion Exchange Used to Make Perovskite LEDs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from the AMOLF lab of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have developed a new way of creating a reactive ink based on perovskites. The material is created by ‘painting’ …

Tags:PeLED (Perovskite LED)| R&D (Research & Development)

MR set changes dazzle viewers of gigantic LED TV studio

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A giant curve LED wall (50m x 10m) has been used in China, with graphics from Pixotope to act as a virtual studio on Chinese TV. Up to four processors were …

Tags:China| LED| TV Production| Virtual Sets

JOLED Panel Reseller Revealed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Review Display Systems has started selling the new 22″, 27″ and 32″ UltraHD inkjet OLED panels from JOLED. The company is also expecting to have a 14″ FullHD panel, later. Colour …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| JOLED| OLEDs

Other Than Visual VR Reviewed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Well, by definition it’s not to do with displays, as the article is entitled “Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?”, but Gizmodo talked to academics working on other inputs …

Tags:Virtual Reality