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Turkey’s Arçelik targets Asian growth with Hitachi deal

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Arçelik of Turkey has taken a 60% share in Hitachi’s overseas home appliances business for $300 million. The firm will use the investment to drive its business for …

Tags:Beko| Hitachi| Investment

Iljin Display eyes turnaround from notebook and MiniLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In reporting on new funding for Iljin Tech, to help the firm turn around its business, The Elec said that the company seems to be banking on Samsung Electronics using its …

Tags:Financial Data| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Touch

HBO Max coming to Roku

by Bob Raikes

What They Say WarnerMedia and Roku have agreed ‘after protracted negotiations’ that Roku users will be able to get access to HBO Max, the premium streaming service. The access will start from 17th December. …

Tags:Roku| SVOD

Virgin Media reveals record-breaking 2020

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Virgin Media posted data about its success in 2020 in the UK, despite, or because of the pandemic. When it came to upload traffic, Virgin Media’s network saw data use jump …

Tags:broadband| Streaming Video

Global TV Market Growth in 2020 Fuelled by Western Consumers in Lockdown

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Futuresource Consulting said that the global TV market is expected to be 1.2% up in 2020 at more than 233 million units, worth $83.7 billion, down just 1%. The key factor …

Tags:Market Data| TVs (TV Sets)

Samsung confirms ‘more accessible’ foldables are in the works for 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung said in a blog post that it plans to expand the use of the S-Pen, used in the Galaxy Note devices, and also the range of foldable phones that are …

Tags:Samsung| Smartphones

Interesting Links Week ending 18th December 2020

by Bob Raikes

Every week, we see interesting articles where we can’t really add value or they are just interesting and not related to displays, so we put them in a round-up list. Samsung Note20 Ultra 5G …

Xiaomi Mi Reader Pro

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi has a new eReader that has a 7.8″ 1878 x 1404 (300 ppi) E Ink-based display with a quad core chipset, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. It is …

Tags:E Ink| eReaders| Xiaomi

Apple M1 Chip Equipped Mac Computer and EIZO Monitor Compatibility

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Eizo put out an information update about compatibility issues between Apple PCs equipped with the new M1 chip and the Big Sur OS and some of its monitors. Some systems are …

Tags:Apple| Eizo| warranty

Acer Reports November Consolidated Revenues of NT$28.72 Billion, Up 40.6% Year-on-year

by Bob Raikes

What They Say One of the Covid winners, Acer Inc, said that it’s November revenues were up 40.6% in November and up 17.9% for the year to date. Business highlights include YoY revenue growth …

Tags:Acer| Chromebooks| Financial Data

LG Display considers switching to Gumi E5 line for iPhone

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display is considering converting its E5 production line in its Gumi factory to make OLEDs for iPhones, according to Korean sources. At the moment, it uses the E6 line in …

What comes after smartphones?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The interesting Benedict Evans, who publishes a general technology email (freemium model) that included this week an interesting article that discusses ‘What comes after smartphones’. He takes a very generalised view …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Smartphones| Virtual Reality