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Sharp to Sell its Stake in Sakai Display Products

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Various websites have reported that Sharp has sold all its shares in Sakai Display Products Corp, the G10 fab that was at one time the jewel in its crown as an …

Tags:Investment| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Large LCD Supply| sharp

Home Electronics Markt Index Q1-4/2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The GfU put out its data for home electronics sales in 2020 in Germany. The fully detailed information can be downloaded here. However here are some items we picked out. TV …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Desktop Monitors| Germany| Market Data| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Smartphone Market| tablets| TVs (TV Sets)

ISE Clarifies June Policy

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Mike Blackman of ISE put out a statement with details of the organisers’ policies for the event which is still due to go ahead from 1st to 4th June this year. …

Tags:Covid-19| Events

Sigmaintell Forecasts Panel Price Rises for March

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Sigmaintell Research of China published its Large LCD panel price trend report for February and forecast that all prices will be up again in March. The rises are being helped by …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Pricing

LG Stalled on Rollable Phone and Sells only 10 Rollable TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An unconfirmed report in the Korea JoongAng Daily said that LG has only sold ten 65″ rollable OLED TVs in Korea in the last quarter of 2020. The sets, in the …

Tags:Foldable Devices| Korea| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs

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Compal Notebook’s Three Screens Connect Wirelessly

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lilyputing.com reported on a three display notebook concept design, the Airttach, from Compal that was mentioned as a submitted product for the IF Design Award 2021. The concept is noted as …

Tags:Compal| Notebooks

HGiG explained: what is HGiG?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say What HiFi published an explanation of the HGiG guidelines that are intended to optimise the HDR performance of game content shown on TVs. What We Think We have been reporting on …

Tags:Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| TVs (TV Sets)

HP Up, Except in APAC

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HP reported its fiscal Q1 2021 revenue result which was up 7.0% from last year to $15.6 billion. $10.6 billion was in personal systems, up 7.2%. Non-GAAP operating profit was $1.477 …

Tags:Financial Data| HP Inc| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

LET’s profit in 2021 to hinge on Samsung foldable phone success

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reports that South Korean display equipment manufacturer Leading Edge Technology (LET) in 2021 will rely for its profits on how many foldable smartphones Samsung can ship. The site reports …

Tags:Financial Data| Korea| Production Equipment

Links Round-up Week Starting 1st March 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. Dimenco Simulated Reality Development Kit LG Sold …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Environment| eWaste| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Retail| Semiconductor Market