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Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google Form the No-Apple Android XR Alliance

by Omid Rahmat

Roh would not elaborate on the specifics of Samsung’s first new XR product, which will not appear at Wednesday’s launch event. “We’re getting there, but we’re not too far away,” he said. “For the …

Tags:Apple| Google| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Qualcomm| Samsung| XR

First Full-Color LCDs using CQD Lasers as Backlight

by Omid Rahmat

Thanks to the narrow line width and high brightness, colloidal quantum dot (CQD) lasers show promising applications in next-generation displays. However, CQD laser-based displays have yet to be demonstrated because of two challenges in …

Tags:Colloidal Quantum Dots| Laser| LCD Backlights

MIT Engineers Develop New Way to Make Defect-Free Displays

by Omid Rahmat

Micro-LEDs (µLEDs) have been explored for augmented and virtual reality display applications that require extremely high pixels per inch and luminance. However, conventional manufacturing processes based on the lateral assembly of red, green and …

Tags:MicroLED| research

TV Viewing Feeling the Economic Pinch

by Omid Rahmat

Subscription TV services suffered during the fourth quarter, perhaps as a result of the cost of living crisis. Just over 15% of Americans say they don’t use any TV subscription services now, up +2.8 …

Tags:Attest| TV Viewing

Qualcomm is Turning Heads in Headsets

by Omid Rahmat

Qualcomm seems to dominating XR headsets. In an interview from CES that only recently surfaced, Hugo Swart, Qualcomm’s VP and GM of its XR efforts, talked with VentureBeat and talked about how the 60+ …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Qualcomm

The Deuteration of OLEDs

by Omid Rahmat

Isowater, a vendor of deuterium oxide (D2O), claims to have achieved a major technological breakthrough with its first production of market-grade D2O on its way to producing sustainable long-term commercial supplies of deuterium oxide. …

Tags:Deutration| Isowater| OLED

Samsung Profits Go Down to 8-Year Low

by Omid Rahmat

Dragged down by memory chip sales, Samsung’s 2022 show the company continuing to invest heavily in capex to take a hit in profits. But there was some good news from Samsung Displays (SDC): SDC …

Tags:Financial Data| Samsung

Samsung to Use New QM2 Structure for OLEDs in 2023

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung Display is expected to expand its existing 30K monthly QD-OLED Capa. to 45K monthly by 2024. In addition, from 2023, it plans to further expand its lineup by mass-producing 49-inch and 77-inch panels …

Tags:QD OLEDs| Samsung

LG DISPLAY'S 45-INCH MLA-BASED WOLED PANEL WILL APPEAR IN GAMING MONITORS THIS YEAR

LG’s Micro Lens Array (MLA) Technology Applied to Gaming OLEDs

by Omid Rahmat

LG Display applied the MLA on the gaming OLED panels they launched this year. They expanded to gaming OLED panels after showcasing their MLA technology-based 3rd generation OLED TV panels at the beginning of …

Tags:Asus| Gamer| LG Displays (LGD)

Siliconcore Claims Highest Resolution Outdoor Display

by Omid Rahmat

At ISE 2023, SiliconCore is showcasing and saying its 1.2mm Outdoor LED Display, the company’s first product in the outdoor display market, offering a sustainable and durable solution compared to outdoor LCD displays. With …

Tags:Outdoor Displays| SiliconCore

No Safe Space for Smartphones but the Future

by Omid Rahmat

The recent analysis of the Chinese smartphone market came out within days of the IDC worldwide smartphone tracker. The numbers align with no corner of the market immune from a sharp downturn in numbers. …

Tags:Apple| Canalys| IDC| OLED| Samsung| Smartphones