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Fusion is a new UK-based company founder by two longtime broadcast industry professionals, Carl J. Dempsey and Steve Farmer. Their first product, a 55” OLED 4K-UHD monitor, is aimed at broadcast and movie production applications. It was debuted at NAB 2016. The ORD-55 features independent processing and quad-mode operation. There are four individual processors to … Read more
Flanders Scientific showed an interesting demo in their booth at NAB. They took one of their standard OLED monitors, the CMS 250, that has a peak luminance rating of 100 cd/m² and they ran it at 300cd/m². This halves the lifetime of the panel but offers some interesting options. To see if this was useful … Read more
Adder debited its DDX KVM switch at InfoComm last year and has been getting great sales ever since, the company told us. It is a lower cost option than their Infinity product, but nearly as functional. It is a 1 Gbps switch. For example, it is a 30 port switch with 7 fixed ports and … Read more
While LCD remains the dominant display technology today, IHS predicts that AMOLED shipments will climb 40% this year, to 395 million units. At the same time, revenues will rise 25%, to $15 billion. Falling costs, wider adoption in end-user electronics and the ramp-up of new manufacturing facilities are contributing to the shift. “AMOLED has a … Read more
LG Electronics reported an operating profit of 505.2 billion Won ($420 million) on sales of 13.36 trillion Won ($11.12 billion). Profit was up 65.5% on the same period last year. Home entertainment sales were down 2.3% from last year at 4.33 trillion Won ($3.6 billion) with weak TV demand in North America and Europe. Operating … Read more
Dolby Labs reported Q2 2016 net profit of $67.4 million, up 16% YoY from $58 million. Turnover was $274.3 million, compared to $271.9 million in the year ago quarter. Dolby Audio inclusion in the iOS was credited with the improved financials.
Sky Italy’s IPTV platform, which is powered by V-Nova’s Perseus codec (Sky Takes V-Nova in Italy), won Newbay Media’s Best of Show award at NAB 2016. V-Nova also used the show to announce the deployment of a Perseus-powered OTT mobile video services in India, by Fastfilmz, and Eutselsat’s use to drive UltraHD contribution of the … Read more
E Ink and Vanzo Technology have co-operated on a turnkey solution to support the development of dual-screen mobile phones using MediaTek chips. The solution combines E Ink ePaper technology with Vanzo’s software and app.
UMC reported Q1 2016 net profit of NT$ 210 million ($6.5 million), down 94.7% YoY from NT$ 3.9 billion ($123 million). Turnover was NT$ 34.4 billion ($1 billion), down 8.6% YoY from NT$ 37.65 billion ($1.1 billion). Financial performance was negatively impacted by the earthquake in February.
Kyocera reported year ending net profit of 109 billion yen ($968 million), down 5.9% from 115 billion yen ($1 billion). Turnover was 1.4 trillion yen ($13 billion), down 3% from 1.5 trillion yen ($14 trillion). Declines in telecom and applied ceramics, along with a 23 billion yen ($214 million) charge related to goodwill were responsible … Read more
Microvision reported Q1 2016 net loss of $3.6 million, down 10% YoY from $4 million. Turnover was $3.7 million, up over 4 times YoY from $0.9 million.
Nintendo reported 2016 year end net profit of 137.4 million yen ($1.2 million), down 62% YoY from 353.5 million yen ($3.3 million). Turnover was 504 billion yen ($4.7 billion), down 8.2% YoY from 549 billion yen ($5.1 billion). Lower 3DS sales impacted the turnover in the current financial year.
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