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Densitron now has a plant in Taiwan that specialises in optical bonding of touch screens and cover glass. The company has announced that it can now add polycarbonate cover lenses to its array of bonding material. Densitron has managed to match the expansion curve of the polycarbonate lenses (which will often expand during temperature and … Read more
LG Display reported Q4 net loss of KRW 14 billion ($11.6 million), compared to a net profit of KRW 389 billion ($323 million) YoY. Turnover for the period decreased 10% YoY to KRW 7.5 trillion ($6.2 billion ) from KRW 8.34 trillion ($6.93 billion ). For the full year, net profit was reported at KRW … Read more
Barco, systems will be used in several virtual reality and art installations at the New Frontier exhibition with its large venue projectors and presentation switchers. The 2016 Sundance Festival will take place from January 21 – 31 in Park City, Utah
Apple reported flat Q1 net profit of $18.4 billion, up marginally YoY from $18 billion. Turnover was also flat at $75.9 billion, compared to $74.6 billion, up under 2% YoY. Apple claimed all time record sales of iPhones, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Gross margin went up from 39.9% a year ago to 40.1% this … Read more
MagnaChip said that since 2007 it has shipped over 160 million AMOLED driver ICs. Most of these ICs went to smartphones, but MagnaChip says they also shipped drivers to digital cameras and tablets. MagnaChip’s technology current uses 55-nm process nodes, and is developing sub 55-nm processes.
Panasonic’s newest solid state projector is a 1DLP unit using laser phosphor technology and a four-segment colour wheel: the PT-RZ570U. Designed for use in mid-size classrooms, the projector is intended to be maintenance-free. Light source lifetime is 20,000 hours, and the product is filter-free. It also has a sealed optical engine block. As a solid-state … Read more
Vivitek’s newest laser projector will be shown off at ISE 2016 in February, but is available now. The DU8090Z features an automatic colour sensor, for brightness and colour consistency; and blending, warping and geometry correction. Lens shift, zoom and focus are all powered. The projector can display picture-in-picture, using different input sources (HDMI, DVI-D, component, … Read more
Colnatec is supplying technology to a European firm building an OLED deposition machine that is headed for China. The machine will adopt Colnatec’s temperature-controlled Tempe system and is said to be larger than any previous machine. The Tempe system was originally developed to stabilize OLED device performances, for its material characterization capabilities, and for in-situ, … Read more
Samsung has announced plans to establish its own film studio for the production of VR movies and stories in New York. Samsung also announced a long-term partnership with the Sundance Institute with the aim of promoting the film production of VR contents and creative talents.
Sony has acquired Altair Semiconductor, for $212 million. The company expects to complete the transaction in early February. Altair is an Israeli company, which owns modem chip technology and related software for the 4G-LTE standard. Sony says that, by combining Altair’s technology with its own sensing technologies and image sensors, the company will attempt to … Read more
20.8 million PCs were shipped in EMEA in Q4’15 – an 18.2% decrease YoY, says IDC. Shipments were strong between summer 2014 and January 2015 thanks to Microsoft’s Bing promotion, so comparisons were unfavourable. Since then, hardware manufacturers and their channel partners have focused on lowering stock levels. Shipments were down 18% for the year … Read more
The oversupply issue currently affecting the LCD industry – exacerbated by China’s aggressive investment in production capacity and high fab utilisation – will continue well into 2016, says IHS. Large-area LCD supply is forecast to be 14% higher than demand this year, compared to 12% higher in 2015. Partly thanks to Chinese government subsidies, LCD … Read more
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