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Roku Select TVs Hit the Stores

by Omid Rahmat

As of today, Best Buy is stocking and selling the company’s range of TVs, its first foray into the market. It’s going to be really interesting to see how Roku does in the market, …

Tags:Roku| TVs (TV Sets)

Envisics Gets $50 Million in Funding for AR HUDs in Automotive

by Omid Rahmat

The round was led by Hyundai Mobis with additional investments from new strategic shareholders InMotion Ventures, the investment arm of Jaguar Land Rover, and Stellantis. Automotive Head-Up Displays (HUDs) have been around for a …

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

BOE Confirmed to Supply LTPO OLEDs for Apple From Mianyang

by Omid Rahmat

BOE has long been transitioning from LTPS technology to LTPO technology in its B7, B11, and B12 factory production lines. It may now have the confirmation that it will be giving Samsung a run …

Tags:Apple| BOE| LTPO TFT| OLED

Avicena Partners With Osram to Make High Volume MicroLED Chip Connects

by Emory Kale

In October 2022, the company acquired the MicroLED fab and engineering team from Nanosys to accelerate the development and manufacturing of high-speed GaN MicroLEDs for parallel multi-Tbps interconnects. Now, it is partnering with Osram …

Tags:Avicena| MicroLED| Osram| VLC

The Wildly Fluctuating Data Around AR/VR/MR Shipments

by Omid Rahmat

IDC just came out with a report that says Meta had 80% of the AR/VR headset market in 2022 as global shipments declined 20.9% to 8.8 million units. A Chinese market research firm has …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Bytedance| CCS Insights| IDC| meta| VR

Foxxum OS 4 Being Embedded in CVTE TV PCBs

by Omid Rahmat

The connected TV (CTV) is getting just that little bit more accessible to consumer electronics manufacturers. Foxxum’s OS 4 is going to be integrated into printed circuit boards (PCBs) from display control manufacturer, Guangzhou …

Tags:CTV| Foxxum| TV OS

TCL Incubates $14.5 Million AR Company

by Omid Rahmat

At CES 2023, TCL was showcasing the RayNeo X2, a full-color MicroLED optical waveguide set of AR glasses. The company that created the technology for the glasses, Thunderbird Innovation, was founded in 2021 by …

Tags:AR Glasses| Rayneon Innovation| TCL

A Boost of DOOH Optimism From Europe

by Omid Rahmat

OOH fat cats, JCDecaux in France and Ströer in Germany, have been reporting robust sales, growth, and healthy bookings for their businesses. Despite a war in Ukraine, the hit on each country’s economies from …

Tags:DOOH| Financial Data| Market Data

Laptop Panel Shipments Best Indicator of Demand

by Omid Rahmat

The second quarter of 2023 saw the first QoQ increase in notebook panel shipments but it is not enough to stop a post-pandemic slide and indicates a possible lack of recovery in the second half of 2023.

Tags:Flat Panels| laptop| Market Data

Apple Unhappy About Needing Samsung Displays

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung so distrusts Apple—which is on a quest to find alternatives to Samsung’s displays—that it bars Apple engineers from Samsung factories, according to multiple former Apple employees. In one incident in 2017, Apple engineers …

Tags:Apple| OLEDs| Samsung

Keep Your Good Eye on Pixelworks’ X7 Visual Processor

by Omid Rahmat

Pixelworks has been getting some design wins for its V7 visual processor. The chipset is incorporated in the OnePlus Ace 2 and it may have helped the newly released Honor Magic5 Pro take Apple’s …

Tags:Apple| DXOMARK| Pixelworks| Smartphones