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Acer Reports August Consolidated Revenues of NT$27.27 Billion, Highest in Nearly Five Years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer reported that its sales were up by 34.9% year on year in August, and were up 11.2% for the year to date. Chromebooks were up 59.6% YoY, while gaming products …

Top-5 notebook brands see shipments peak in August, says Digitimes Research

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The top global notebook brands hit a new high in August according to Digitimes Research. HP is said to have been above five million units. Despite a trade ban by the …

Tags:Chromebooks| Notebooks| Taiwan

BOE Reattempts to Supply OLED to Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say BOE is expected to try again to become a qualified supplier of OLED panels for fitting to refurbished iPhone 12s. The company tried to supply originally from its B11 fab but …

Tags:Apple| BOE| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Small & Medium Displays

Digital View launches a new interface board for 32″ and 42″ E Ink panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digital View has developed a new interface system to support E Ink’s 32″ and 42″ monochrome panels, the E-T1000. It includes a USB interface so that content can be uploaded and …

Tags:Display Controllers| E Ink| Interfaces

The Reinvention of Retail

by Bob Raikes

What They Say McKinsey, the international consultants, published data about changes in the retail environment because of Covid. The company believes that the market has experienced ten years of development in just three months. …

Tags:internet| Retail

Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 leaks in full via official promo videos

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A pair of promotional videos were uploaded to Facebook which indicated the Quest 2 VR headsets would use the Qualcom Snapdragon XR2 and ‘nearly 2K per eye’ as well as 6GB …

Tags:Oculus VR| Virtual Reality

Sharp PC unit Dynabook’s Tokyo listing pushed to late 2021: CEO

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Japanese PC maker, Dynabook – owned by Sharp and including the Toshiba PC business bought by Sharp in 2018 – had hoped to have an IPO this year, but has deferred …

Tags:Investment| Japan| Notebooks| sharp| toshiba

Samsung to Launch The Premiere 4K UST Laser Projector

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung’s Visual Display business announced a couple of new 4K laser projectors, the LSP9T and LSP7T which are intended to create images of 130″ and 120″, respectively. The projectors fit into …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Laser Projectors| Samsung

Here’s everything Apple revealed at its September hardware event

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple held its ‘traditional’ September event to release new products, but didn’t announce any new iPhones, apparently because of Covid-related development and supply chain delays. It announced a new Apple Watch, …

Tags:Apple| iPad| Smartwatches| tablets

Aledia Gets Investment for Manufacturing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Aledia, a start-up out of the high tech R&D LETI organisation in Grenoble, France, has raised €140 million to build production facilities in the region. What We Think We have been …

Tags:Investment| Manufacturing| MicroLED

Analysis of TCL ChinaStar’s acquisition of Samsung Suzhou Gen8.5 LCD factory

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Omdia released free of charge a detailed look (26 Powerpoint slides) at the takeover of Samsung’s Suzhou fab by CSOT/TCL. The document looks at what is happening, how TCL might develop …

Tags:CSOT| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Market Data

LCD panel prices keep rallying in September

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reports that panel prices are rising for TVs, notebooks and PC monitors partly because of restricted supply of driver and power management chips. What We Think Panel makers have to …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Pricing