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Antycip Shows Us its UK Demo Suite

We decided to make the most of the (relative) slowdown of news in the summer to catch up with a company that we met at the Laval Virtual conference and which had invited us to visit. Antycip is a French company that specialises in simulation and virtual reality system development and installation and also has … Read more

NES Classic Outsold PS4, Xbox One and Switch in the US in June

NPD Group’s Mat Piscatella sent out a tweet reporting that the best-selling games console in the US during the month of June 2018 was Nintendo’s NES Classic, a compact remake of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, first released in 1983. The NES Classic can’t run NES cartridges, but rather comes pre-loaded with a selection of … Read more

Daydream View Headset Heavily Discounted at Verizon

A few months on from the release of Lenovo’s Mirage Solo standalone headset running on Google’s Daydream VR platform, Daydream View is being heavily discounted as companies seemingly wind their stocks down. When we checked, Verizon was selling the device for under $30, a 70% discount off its recommended retail price. Once stocks are gone, … Read more

Keep Taking the Tablets…

This week, we have a number of data reports on market developments, especially in MDM, with news on the tablet and smartphone markets. The news that Huawei has displaced Apple as the second largest supplier in smartphones seems to me something of an inflection point and an indicator of a trend in the future. BOE … Read more

IDC: Tablets Shipments Continue to Decline in the Second Quarter of 2018

The worldwide tablet market declined 13.5% during the second quarter of 2018 as global shipments fell to 33 million, according to IDC, which paints a poorer picture of the market compared to market data from Strategy Analytics, which found that the market declined only 6%, to 40.9 million units. The stark difference is found in … Read more

Innolux Result 02/08/2018

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Innolux saw Q2 profit before tax of NT$1.0 billion ($33.1 million), down from NT$16.2 billion ($528.8 million) a year ago, on sales which fell to NT$66.5 billion ($2.2 billion) from NT$84.5 billion ($2.8 billion). For the first half, there were before-tax profits of NT$4.9 billion ($161.2 million), a decrease from NT$31.5 billion ($1.0 billion), on … Read more

Sharp OLED Business Ramping Up, Appliances Moving

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Unconfirmed reports from Asia suggest that Sharp will start to ship smartphones using the company’s own OLED panels in Q4, with EVP Katsuaki Nomura quoted as the source of the information. Separately, Sharp has said that it will stop making household appliances in Japan with production moving to Thailand and to other Foxconn facilities. The … Read more

NPD Group: 17% of US Population Solely Use SVoD Services

While the majority of consumers in the US view video content from a variety of sources, in both physical and digital formats, the number of people using only Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and other SVoD services is on the rise. 17% of the US population relied solely on SVoD services to view video content … Read more

Macroblock Explains LED Developments

Macroblock, the LED display driver specialist, has released details of its annual conference. In its report on the event, it explained the advantage of a common cathode configuration, which allows the voltage to be independently varied according to the colour, which allows a lower voltage for the Red LEDs, and reducing power consumption. The company … Read more

Strategy Analytics: Apple, Huawei, Microsoft Take 40% Share of Ultra-Competitive Tablet Market

The latest research from Strategy Analytics shows an extremely competitive tablet market where many Android vendors are losing share and revenue due to falling prices and little innovation compelling new consumer sales. Apple, Huawei, and Microsoft each showed shipment growth in the quarter and combined to take 40% market share. Despite these successes from market … Read more