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The annual Touch Taiwan show took place in Taipei this month. Focusing on touch panels and optical films, the event brings together companies from across Asia, Europe and the USA. 422 exhibitors attended, stretching across almost 1,200 stands and attracting an estimated 38,000 visitors from 15 countries. Asahi Glass had a thin glass product called … Read more
This week, while creating this issue of the newsletter, I was also involved with the finalising of our quarterly data for desktop monitors, public displays and interactive meeting room displays. The markets are very different and are changing very differently. As you can see on the front page story in “Large Display Monitor”, the market … Read more
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has dismissed an appeal from Innolux against the $288 million fine imposed on the company for taking part in the LCD price fixing scandal. Innolux was originally fined $300 million but this was reduced to $288 million in February 2014 by the General Court. The fine took into account … Read more
The MG278Q is a 27″ LCD monitor for gamers, produced by Asus. As well as a fast (1ms) response time and refresh rate (144Hz), the display uses AMD’s Freesync anti-tearing technology. To care for users during extended use, the MG278Q features a low blue light mode and flicker-free backlight. The monitor is capable of 120° … Read more
Samsung is cutting the prices of its newest TVs – by up to thousands of dollars, in some cases. Shortly after the news was shared, LG responded with cuts of its own, to its 2015 OLED models. Several of Samsung’s UltraHD TVs produced this year use ‘nanocrystals’ (quantum dots). These are the company’s ‘SUHD’ TVs, … Read more
PC World claims that Intel will release the first of its Skylake chips in early September. According to the rumours, these chips will feature fixed-function support for UltraHD video rendering in hardware, as well as support for the newest APIs such as DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4. They are said to run at 1,152 GFLOPS; … Read more
While we are all talking about the smartwatch and especially the latest model from Apple, Polyera has announced a watch with a flexible display for release in 2016. In this case, not only is the display a flexible AMOLED display as used in some devices already, but the whole watch is basically a flexible wristband. … Read more
The OASIS group has stated that it is working on standards for using augmented reality content in information products. OASIS is a non-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. The member list reads like a phone list of top technology companies, even though display companies … Read more
The Desktop Monitor market in Europe was down in Q2 with sales down 14% on last year as the market in Russia failed to recover after a terrible Q1. Germany was also down and as a result, Meko reported the lowest sales for the first half of the year since it started tracking the market … Read more
Lenovo has hired Andy Bass as the company’s new director of channel and SMB in the UK and Ireland. Bass is set to take over the role from 1st September, having spent the last 10 months at CMS Distribution. He will replace Darren Phelps, who left Lenovo earlier this year (Lenovo Parts Company with UK … Read more
IHS will hold its annual US FPD conference at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Santa Clara, California on 14th and 15th September this year. This year’s event will focus on the latest trends in high-definition technology. As well as presentations on topics ranging from mobile displays to digital signage, participants will include representatives from companies … Read more
IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced the preliminary agenda for the company’s upcoming US FPD 2015 conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California from September 14 – 15, 2015. Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, the conference will showcase flat panel display (FPD) technologies … Read more
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