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Canatu Secures CNB Design Win

Canatu has secured a design win for carbon nanobud technology, with a customer in North America. The customer required flexibility, thinness and zero haze or reflections. Canatu designed a bespoke on-cell touch solution that combines a moisture barrier with the touch surface, and secured the ‘high volume’ order. More details will be revealed when the … Read more

Epson and Infocus Popular in December

PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in the USA in December. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘4,000+ lumen’. PMA’s top five list of 4,000+ lumen projectors comes from North American dealers and integrators. Sony led with its VPL-FHZ55/W, while Optoma took second and fourth spots with … Read more

LGD Will Retool LCD Lines for OLED

According to Japan’s Nikkei newspaper, LG Display will invest KRW850 billion ($718 million) in the LCD production lines at its Paju factory, in order to convert them to OLED. The retooling is scheduled for completion in 2017, and will increase LGD’s capacity for large OLED panels by 70%. This announcement is separate from last year’s … Read more

Sony Merges Playstation Units

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Sony Computer Entertainment has been merged with Sony Network Entertainment, to form a new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. The new company will deal with all of Sony’s Playstation business – hardware, software, the Playstation Store, Playstation Vue and more. Unlike Sony’s other businesses, SIE will have its headquarters in San Mateo, California, rather than … Read more

Huawei is 2015’s Smartphone Success Story

Worldwide smartphone sales reached new record levels at the end of 2015, thanks to multiple product offerings at all price points, in both mature and emerging markets. Preliminary IDC data shows that 399.5 million total units were shipped in Q4’15: 5.7% YoY growth, from 377.8 million in Q4’14. Over the course of the year, more … Read more

Samsung Sees Tough Pricing and Weak Smartphones

Samsung saw a drop in profits on a quarterly basis, and sees some tough times ahead with DRAM and LCD panels both under pressure from weaker prices. Over the year, profit was up 5.5% to $22 billion and turnover was $166 billion (See Finance Results for more details). Samsung’s LCD panels segment saw its earnings … Read more

Gou Goes Direct to Sharp Lenders

‘A person familiar with the talks’ has told the Taipei Times that Foxconn chairman Terry Gou is taking his case for the acquisition of Sharp (Foxconn Ups Sharp Offer) directly to major lenders to the Japanese firm. The sources said that he is trying to pre-empt an alternative deal with Japan’s INCJ. Gou apparently travelled … Read more

STMicroelectronics Result – 28/1/2016

STMicroelectronics reported Q4 and full year financial results, with a $2 million net profit for the quarter. Turnover for the period was $1.67 billion. Full year 2015 net profit was $104 million. Turnover for that period was $6.9 billion. In addition to financial results, the company announced discontinuation of development of STB platforms, on account … Read more

Lux Research Sees Changes in the Smart Glasses Leadsership

Lux Research, the US based Research Institute with a focus on emerging technologies has published a report on the status of smartglasses in enterprise applications. In this research, they have studied more than 70 enterprise deployments of augmented reality hardware and software. Many of these deployments are still in the evaluation or beta test phase, … Read more

Wanda Signs Dolby Cinema Deal

Wanda Cinema, a chain in China, has agreed a deal with Dolby which will bring Dolby Cinema to the country. Over the next five years, Wanda will install Dolby Cinema in 100 locations, the first of which will be opened this spring. Dolby Cinema combines Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technologies, and uses Christie’s 6P … Read more