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Samsung’s Suzhou LCD Factory Sale to TCL Facing Delay

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec, quoting Chinese sources, reports that Samsung’s potential sale of its LCD plant in Suzhou to TCL could be delayed because of the time taken by the South Korean government …

Tags:China| Investment| LCD Fabs| TCL

MMD Pays for Tree Planting for Philips Monitors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MMD, the TPV subsidiary that licences the Philips brand for monitors in Europe, said that it is continuing to work with ForestNation to plant trees in Tanzania to offset the environmental …

Tags:Environment| Philips

Apple VR headset may use fluid-filled lenses to counter a user’s bad eyesight.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AppleInsider reported on a patent from Apple for an optical system for a VR headset that uses fluid-filled lenses to accomodate the eyesight of different users. In the patent titled “Electronic …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Optics| Virtual Reality

Kastus And Lenovo Announce Global Partnership To Intelligently Transform Commercial Touchscreens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We carry a press release today that sets out that Lenovo has done a deal with a company called Kastus to use the firm’s antimicrobial and antiviral screen coverings in protectors …

Tags:Covid-19| Touch

Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Top-End PCs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Apple wants to push on with its own processors and is developing new chips that are intended to significantly outperform high end Intel-based systems. The new chips, expected …

Tags:Apple| Arm| CPUs| GPUs

DSCC’s Latest Display Capacity Forecast Shows LCD Capacity to Remain Tight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC upgraded its forecast for industry capacity by 3% in 2025 as a number of OLED fabs may arrive a bit quicker than previously expected. LCD TVs continue to dominate capacity, …

Tags:Forecasts| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| OLED Fabs

Japanese Looking for Safer Motorbikes – with Smart Helmets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an article about the development of the motorcycle market in Japan, Nikkei reported on information being shown in ‘smart helmets’. The Nikkei also reports that Robert Bosch has a distance …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Japan

Will MSG Sphere Come to London?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I missed the news when it was first announced in 2018, but it seems that the Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) is trying to build ‘the MSG Sphere’ with “the largest …

Tags:LED| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Outdoor Displays

Mercedes Korea Adds A/R to Navigation System

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported on the latest Mercedes E Class, said to be the best selling imported car in Korea, and highlighted that it has a new Augmented Reality navigation system. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Korea

Analyst Points to Big MiniLED Push by Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that as part of Apple’s miniLED push, the company will release a pair of new MacBook Pro models in 2021 with the technology — and a …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| Notebooks

Links for the Week

by Bob Raikes

Here are some links for the week that might be interesting, but do not need much of a comment Global semiconductor sales grow in October, says SIA Smartphone OLED prices to drop from oversupply: …

Vewd Extends Hybrid TV Leadership with BML and Hybridcast

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vewd said that it has added support to its software stack for the Japanese BML and Hybridcast hybrid TV standards. That is on topic of existing support for HbbTV and ATSC3.0 …

Tags:Broadcast| Japan| OTT Video| TVs (TV Sets)