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BOE In the Door for FOLED at Samsung

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Korean ETNews blog reported that BOE is expected to start supplying flexible OLEDs for Samsung Electronics Galaxy M smartphones in the second half of the year. Production will start in …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones

USPTO Overturns a Solas OLED Patent Win

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The US Patent Office has overturned a decision, previously in favour of Solas IP over a patent on flexible touch displays. The Patent office ruled that the patent was not itself …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Litigation| Patents| Samsung Display| Touch

Pat Gelsinger opens up Intel’s checkbook for IDM 2.0

by Bob Raikes

What They Say According to our friend, Dr. Jon Peddie, Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has rapidly set-out what is being called his “Integrated Device Manufacturing 2.0” (IDM 2.0) plan. Under the plan. the …

Tags:Intel| Semiconductor Market

Unikorn to make microLEDs for Epistar

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reports that Unikorn, a spin-out from Epistar and based in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan that acts as a semiconductor (III-V compound) foundry business, is to make mircroLED panels for its …

Tags:MicroLED| MiniLED

Large Panel Prices Keep Rising

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sigmaintell put out its Large Panel pricing trend report for March with its forecast for April, where it still sees across the board increases. The Chinese market is not optimistic about …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Pricing

Apple May Have to Compensate Samsung

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald, quoting un-named ‘industry insiders’ said that Apple may have to compensate Samsung for ordering fewer displays that its target production as its volume will be 75 million for …

Tags:Apple| Next Action| Samsung| Smartphone Market

Barco Highlights Sense X Uniformity Technology

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Barco released a blog post that highlighted its Sense X auto calibration system for LCD walls, which is intended to ensure both inside each display (intra-tile uniformity) and over the complete …

Tags:Barco| Display Calibration| LFD - Large Format Display| Video Walls

Barco Plans Release of World’s First Native-4K Single-Chip DLP Projector

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Barco posted a video about a new projector, the F400-HR, that is said to be the first single chip DLP projector to support UltraHD without a need for pixel shifting, although …

Tags:Barco| DLP| Laser| Laser Projectors| Simulation

Badger Adds Subtitles to Conversations

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Badger is a product from Satellite Display which has developed a large E Ink-based smart badge that connects to a smartphone to allow text from voice recognition technology to be displayed. …

Tags:E Ink

Sharp Extends into Services in Europe

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Invidis reports that Sharp has taken over a Swiss IT integrator ITPoint AG to start the process of developing a new European IT service division. The site said that the main …

Tags:LFD - Large Format Display| sharp| SIs (System Integrators)

Samsung Display flexible AMOLED panels make headways in China, says Digitimes Research

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research reported on some deals in the smartphone supply chain for flexible OLEDs. It said that Samsung Display’s new 1500 cd/m² E4 display has helped the firm to sell more …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Smartphones

Apple to Use Hybrid Fresnel Lenses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MacRumors reported that respected Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo as forecasting that Apple would use a hybrid Fresnel lens stack (with three lenses per eye) based on optical plastic to minimise weight …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Optics