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Sigmaintell Sees Small LCD Pricing as Flat, TVs as Rising

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sigmaintell put out its panel pricing reports for both small/medium and large panels for April 2021. Small medium prices are broadly stable, with a rise in one size of amorphous LCD …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Pricing| Small Medium Panel Supply

TCL Moves IJP OLED TV Plans On

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TechRadar reports that TCL had said that it plans to introduce inkjet printing for TV panels in 2023. DSCC had a lot more information on this that was published in its …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| TCL

Market launch for the world’s largest 8K display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reported that the Sharp 120″ 8K 8M-B120C LED display is now shipping in the German market. (Sharp Launches New 120 inch 8K Display) The set was first seen at IFA …

Tags:LCD Panels| LFD - Large Format Display| sharp

Dell Bullish on PC Market Development

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Dell held an investor call focusing on its Client Solutions Group and was very bullish about the future growth of the PC business. It quoted a forecast from IDC that put …

Tags:Dell| Forecasts| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

Sony Updates Xperia Phones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony announced three new smartphones highlighting the firm’s technology in cameras and imaging. In the Xperia 1 III there are four focal lengths available from three cameras, and the ‘periscope’ camera …

Tags:Smartphones| sony

Nvidia Extends Foveated Rendering with Tobii

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In a talk at the Nvidia GPU Developers’ Conference (GDC) this week, Nvidia said that it will make it easier for app developers to integrate foveated rendering (FR) into their applications. …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition

LG and Acer Doing Well in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG announced its preliminary results for Q1 2021 and said that revenue and operating profit increased 27.7% and 39.2%, respectively, from the same quarter the previous year and reached the highest …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| LG Electronics (LGE)

E Ink ESLs Now 4 Colour

by Bob Raikes

What They Say E Ink announced some new four colour displays under its Spectra sub-brand for use in ESLs and retail signage. SES Imagotag and Pricer are both quoted as working with E Ink …

Tags:E Ink| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Retail

OLED Production to Increase 94% Y/Y in Q2 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC reported that a recovery from the pandemic, combined with strong demand for OLEDs in smartphones, TVs and other devices, and coupled with capacity increases, will lead OLED production to grow …

Tags:OLED Fabs| Small Medium Panel Supply

LTPO

DSCC Highlights LTPO and High Refresh in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an information dense blog post, DSCC picked out some highlights from its most recent report on ‘Advanced Smartphones’. It highlights the trend to higher refresh rates, which have developed from …

Tags:Apple| LTPO TFT| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

OLUM Has Cell Approach to FMM

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The ET News in Korea reported that a Korean start-up, Olum Material, has developed a new technique for shadow mask OLED deposition, replacing current fine metal masks (FMM). The company calls …

Tags:OLEDs| Vapour Deposition

Apple to Make Combined TV STB + Smart Speaker

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple is planning a new box that would combine the functions of the Apple TV STB and Homepod smart speaker and add a camera to enable videoconferencing with a connected TV, …

Tags:Apple| Voice Input