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Apple to account for half of flexible OLED smartphones in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec in Korea reports a forecast from Stone Partners that half of all new flexible OLED smartphones due to launch in 2021 will come from Apple, with the market representing …

Tags:Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market

Vizio releases AMD FreeSync update for 2020/21 P-Series & M-Series TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vizio said that its M-Series Quantum, P-Series Quantum, and P-Series Quantum X, which have the firm’s ProGaming Engine, will be upgraded to support AMD FreeSync, with the P-Series going to the …

Tags:Game Playing| Nvidia| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Vizio

8K Seminar at SMPTE 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association is a sponsor of the 2020 SMPTE virtual conference. There are 13 talks that have been arranged that will touch on 8K covering Production, workflows, creative aspects and …

Tags:Events| SMPTE| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

WBS Links for the week

by Bob Raikes

There seemed to be a lot of news this week, so here are some other links that I saw that might be of interest. Honda e: Strong Visual Appeal, But Some UX Falls short …

Tags:Automotive| Desktop Monitors| Foldable Devices| HbbTV| HDMI| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Samsung| Software| STBs

Global smartphone shipments improve in 3Q20

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Global smartphone shipments fell by slightly over 6% on year in the third quarter of 2020, improving significantly from the previous two quarters as demand for smartphones outside the China market …

Tags:5G| Smartphone Market| Smartphones

Dong A Eltek aims to expand OLED kit sales to Visionox

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec in Korea reports that Dong A Eltek, a maker of inspection equipment has been profiting from increased investment in OLED production by Visionox of China. Six of its G6 …

Tags:OLEDs| Production Equipment

Sky Deutschland’s Das Boot sets sail in 8K and Dolby Atmos

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The third season of Sky Deutschland’s Das Boot will be the first international series to be filmed in 8K and Dolby Atmos. The show’s previous seasons were both shot in 4K …

Tags:Dolby Atmos| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

AMD acquiring Xilinx in $35B semiconductor mega-deal

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The chip industry consolidation dance continued as AMD has entered into an agreement to buy Xilinx for $35 billion, giving the company access to a broad set of specialized workloads. AMD …

Tags:AMD| Mergers & Acquisitions| Semiconductor Industry

Avantama qualifies its green pQD display film

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Avantama of Switzerland, a developer of quantum dots, has told Perovskite-Info that it has had its green perovskite material qualified for production use. What We Think I thought this was a …

Tags:Perovskite| Quantum Dots| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)