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Apple Rounds Up Luxshare, Foxconn, TSMC, and Sony to Make AR Device

A clearer picture is emerging of what is going into the making of Apple’s competitor to Meta’s Quest. It may be that we have to look no further than Sony’s PSVR2. Nikkei Asia is reporting that people familiar with the project are saying that existing Apple contract manufacturers, Luxshare Precision Industry, and Foxconn are helping … Read more

New Research on Metasurface Technology Could Lead to Cheaper, Better, More Efficient Displays

Metasurfaces are 100 times thinner than liquid crystal cells, offer a ten-fold increase in resolution, and consume half the power. Metasurface technology is a type of engineered material that can control the propagation of electromagnetic waves, including light, in ways that are not possible with traditional materials. It is made up of a planar array … Read more

The Display Has Driven Me to the Dark Side

It started with a display. Of course. When I decided to get a new tablet as my old Samsung just didn’t have enough storage for anything very useful any more, I couldn’t resist the very, very impressive miniLED display in Apple’s iPad Pro. The tablet is very big, but its display is truly awesome. (and … Read more

Chinese TV Brands Pull Panel Orders Forward, so Non-Mainstream Brands Will Be First to Encounter Hikes in Panel Prices

Global TV shipments are projected to drop by 24.3% QoQ to 41.99 million units for 1Q23. This shipment figure represents a new low for first-quarter result in almost a decade. TV brands on the whole have not been performing well, but Chinese brands are in a worse situation because this year’s Lunar New Year holiday … Read more

TP Vision Delivers Growth in Key Segments of the Philips TV & Sound Business

Sales of OLED Ambilight TVs show a YoY increase of 22% driving business growth. Despite increasingly difficult global economic and politically challenges, TP Vision has maintained growth in key segments of both the companies TV and Audio businesses with the performance of OLED Ambilight TVs and GO Sports products a particular highlight in the company’s … Read more

By the End of 2024, 40% of Asian-based Supply Chain Organizations Will Recover 2 Percentage Points of Margin Through Rebalanced Resiliency Efforts

IDC predicts by end of 2024, 40% of Asian-based supply chain organizations will have rebalanced resiliency efforts to reflect the realities of inflation and necessary efficiency to recover 2 percentage points of margin. This is just one of IDC’s predictions unveiled in its latest report, IDC FutureScape : Worldwide Manufacturing 202 3 Predictions – APeJ Implications. … Read more

SmartKem’s World First: A Monolithic MicroLED Using Thin-Film Transistors

SmartKem claims to have created the world’s first monolithic micro-LED display using organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The company believes that its method of processing a thin-film transistor backplane on top of Gallium Nitride LEDs has the potential to accelerate the commercialization of microLED displays, which promise higher brightness, lower power consumption and longer lifetime. MicroLEDs … Read more

S23 Ultra Closes in on Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max and 14 Pro on Display Benchmarks

The Dxomark for Samsung’s latest smartphone, the S23 Ultra, shows marked improvements over the S22 Ultra making it the best Android phone on the market, and the best for video performance, overall. It may lag Apple’s top of the line offerings, the iPhone Pro and iPhone Pro Max, but the differences in performance are minor. … Read more

Samsung TVs Are Number One

SAMSUNG 2023 MICROLED TV. PHOTO: SAMSUNG

According to market research firm Omdia, in 2022, Samsung ranked first in the TV market for the 17th consecutive year, selling 9.65 million units of QLED and Neo QLED TVs and dominating the ultra-large TV market segment for TVs over 75-inches and 80-inches with market shares of 36.1% and 42.9%, respectively. For the premium TV … Read more

Sony Bravia 2023 Lineup Leaked Online

Sony Bravia Core

The company is supposed to be delivering an announcement shortly on the Bravia models for 2023 but a YouTube video, subsequently taken down, provided an early leak of information. At CES 2023, Sony was more interested in its PVR2 launch in 2023 then its television lines. However, there are scattered reports online of a possible … Read more