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LCD Volume to go Down, Area to Go Up

Witsview said that while overall volume of large panels of 7″ or above will decline in 2017 by around 2.4% to 725 million units, the area will grow by 3.8% because of the increasing size of panels being bought. The company said that there may be a shortage of 40″ to 45″ panels because of … Read more

Taiwanese Smartphone Makers Down in Q3

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Digitimes Research said that smartphone shipments by Taiwan-based vendors declined 35% from Q3 2015 to 12.36 million, with lower than expected shipments from HTC, Asustek Computer and Acer which meant lower orders for assemblers including Compal, Foxconn, Arima and Wistron. Compal and Arima are reported to have started shipping to Sony, but at lower levels … Read more

Foxconn Electronics Result 14/11/2016

Foxconn Technology has announced its Q3 FY16 results with net sales of NT$1,074.1 bn ($33.9 bn) with a slight increase of 0.7% over Q3 FY15 net sales of NY$1,066.1 bn ($33.3 bn). The company also reported sales of NT$471.9 bn ($14.9 bn) for October 2016, increasing 0.76% over the previous month but decreasing 6.17% on … Read more

Asustek Results 14/11/2016

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Asustek Computers announced Q3 FY16 results with sales of NT$107.5 bn ($3.4 bn) and net profit of NT$5.9 bn ($187.7 mn), resulting in a net profit margin of 5.5%. The Q3 FY16 sales increased 14% as compared to previous quarter sales of NT$93.9 bn ($2.9 bn), but slightly lesser than last year’s Q3 sales of … Read more

Asus AR Phone at CES?

Asus is expected to be the second company after Lenovo with its Phab phone, to have a smartphone with Google Tango, the company’s CEO, Jerry Shen has said. The Google Tango platform is for augmented reality applications. The smartphone product will be called the ZenFone AR and should be shown during CES 2017. The company … Read more

LG In Trouble with Gamers for OLED Input Lag

Gamers have raised complaints about input lag on LG’s HDR OLED TVs and have put a petition on change.org asking LG to do something about the delay which is said to be around 50ms – 60ms. The petition says: With millions of PS4 consoles now having HDR support for videogames, along with millions of Xbox … Read more

The Trickstick is a Handheld “Persistence of Vision” Display

Electricks (San Francisco, CA) is developing a product called Trickstick. The device is a hand held “persistence of vision” display in the form of a wand. “Wave it in front of you and a colorful, detailed image appears out of thin air.” The operating principle of the Trickstick is based on the fact that, due … Read more

An Interesting Week at JDI

The last week has been a very interesting one for Japan Display Inc (JDI). First they released their quarterly results (not so great), then they announced a cooperation with E Ink to develop electrophoretic display-based signage and to top off the news cycle, Reuters reports on a potential bail out of ¥75 billion ($685 million) … Read more