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Samsung Display Files US Patent Lawsuit against JOLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that the patent battle between JOLED and Samsung is hotting up as Samsung (via its IKT subsidiary) has filed an additional suit against the firm and Asus. IKT …

Lenovo’s New Titanium Yoga Notebook Features Sensel

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sensel, whose touch and haptics sensor we reported on recently (Sensel Unveils Groundbreaking Haptic Touchpad At CES 2021) has said that the device is in its first device, the Lenovo ThinkPad …

Tags:Haptics| Notebooks| Touch

Acer Debuts Two Durable, Convertible Chromebooks for the Education Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer launched two convertible Chromebooks, both fitted with Corning Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass. The Spin 512 has a 3:2 aspect ratio an extends the antimicrobial treatment to the keyboard, touchpad and palm …

Tags:Acer| anti-microbial| Chromebooks| Glass

DDI Shortage Helping Monitor Panel Allocations

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Trendforce reported that a shortage of display driver chips is driving LCD makers to focus on monitor and notebook panels, which are more profitable than TV panels and larger TV panels, …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Display Drivers| Large LCD Supply

BOE’s 2nd Gen 10.5 LCD factory to reach full capacity in 1st half

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reports, quoting local Chinese media, that BOE has secured $3 billion in funding to expand its B12 production line for OLEDs for smartphones in Chongqing. The company currently operations …

Tags:BOE| Investment| Large LCD Supply| OLED Fabs| Small Medium LCDs

Perovskite Materials can Deliver Transparency and Conductivity

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Science Daily said that a group led by University of Minnesota Professor K. Andre Mkhoyan has made a discovery that combines transparency and conductivity in perovskite materials. The group found metallic …

Tags:Materials| Perovskite| Touch

Researchers achieve stable and high-efficiency blue LEDs based on halide perovskites

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group of researchers from around the world, but with lead authors at Linköping University in Sweden, have developed new ‘spectrally stable’ blue perovskites over a wide range of emission wavelengths …

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

Former Huawei unit plans to churn out 100m smartphones in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Nikkei reports that Honor, the company spun off from the low end smartphones of Huawei, plans to make about 100 million sets in 2021. However, there is uncertainty as to …

Tags:Huawei| Smartphone Market

The mini-LED TV market in 2025 is the trend of the premium TV market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UBI Research of Korea, has said that it expects the share of the high end TV market taken by miniLED to go past the share taken by OLEDs by 2024. The …

Tags:MiniLED| OLEDs| TVs (TV Sets)

TSMC to Kick off Mass Production of Intel CPUs in 2H21

by Bob Raikes

What They Say EE Times reports, quoting Trendforce as a source, that Intel has moved the production of 15% to 20% of its non-CPU chips to TSMC and UMC. While the company is planning …

Tags:CPUs| Intel| Semiconductors| TSMC

Lenovo has upgraded its ThinkBook Plus

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lenovo has upgraded its ThinkBook Plus that has a larger external E Ink display, moving up from 10.8″ to 12″ and with resolution going up to 2560 x 1600. The main …

Tags:E Ink| Lenovo| Notebooks

Highlights from S21 Launch Event – Numerous Upgrades at Lower Prices and Outlook vs. S20/S10 and iPhone 12

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Ross Young of DSCC has published a blog article that takes a deep dive into the differences between last years Galaxy S20 series and this year’s 21 series. It points out …

Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones