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Launched in April 2015, the Apple Watch represented a watershed moment in the development of the nascent smart watch sector, capturing the rapt attention of industry participants and consumers alike. Smart watches have undergone a strong period of innovation and development during the past year, with numerous models introduced on the Android Wear operating system … Read more
Starting in the second half of 2015, the overall consumption of active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) materials will surge, as LG Display increases the production of white organic light-emitting diode (WOLED) TV panels. In the first half of 2015, the WOLED organic materials market reached $58 million; however, in the second half of the year … Read more
The Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ are Samsung’s newest flagship phones (Samsung Beats Apple to Flagship Punch), and feature the company’s latest version of OLED technology. Ray Soneira of DisplayMate has analysed the performance of each phone’s display in a variety of lab tests, as part of his display shootout series (http://tinyurl.com/ot4tu2r). The Note … Read more
This week, I covered the news that Apple really does seem to be moving forward with its project to build a self-driving car (Confirmation of Apple’s Autonomous Car Plans). ‘Project Titan’, as it’s known to us mere mortals, will be an electric vehicle that can cart users in relative comfort from point A to point … Read more
NEC’s PH502L is said to be the world’s most compact 5,000-lumen laser projector. First introduced at ISE this year, we recently saw it an Infocomm (NEC Ups Laser Phosphor Projector Offerings), and the NEC showcase in London. As a solid state model, the laser light source in the DLP projector will last for 20,000 hours. … Read more
Despite the relative stability of the desktop PC market, and the growth of the technology sector in general, Jon Peddie Research reports an 11% QoQ fall in Q2 GPU shipments. Embedded and integrated GPUs are having an impact on sales of discrete GPUs. Total GPU shipments were down 18.8% YoY, combining the 21.7% desktop contraction … Read more
LG Display is to shift its investment priority to OLED displays, due to the speed with which Chinese rivals are catching up in the LCD market. Over the next 10 years, LGD plans to spend KRW10 trillion ($8.5 billion) on ‘future displays’. These include OLEDs, flexible units and high-end LCD screens. The size of the … Read more
Documents seen by The Guardian imply that Apple really is working on its own self-driving car. Under a Public Records Act request, The Guardian newspaper obtained records of correspondence between Apple engineers and officials at the GoMentum Station: a 2,100-acre former naval base, 40 miles north of San Francisco. The facility contains 20 miles of … Read more
The European IT market will achieve minimal growth in 2015, following two years of revenue declines and low sales growth, according to a prediction by the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO). The results, published by Germany’s Bitkom, forecast 0.9% revenue growth, to €651 billion. While IT hardware and, software and services will increase 2.1%, to … Read more
Tablet shipments in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) sub-region were down 21.4% in Q2’15, compared to Q2’14, says IDC. 2.8 million units were shipped. 2-in-1 (hybrid) devices experienced the greatest annual decline, with shipments falling 38.6%. Despite this, IDC writes that the share of hybrid devices in the overall tablet market has remained steady … Read more
According to China’s Sigmaintell Consulting, BOE, CSOT and Nanjing CEC Panda together shipped 79.4 million large-size TFT-LCD panels in the first half of the year. This is a 16% YoY increase and represents 20.3% of the global total (up 3.5% YoY). 28.7 million panels were for TVs, up 48% and representing 21.8% of the global … Read more
Tablet shipments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) fell by 21.4% in the second quarter of 2015 compared to the same quarter in the previous year, to 2.8 million units shipped, according to the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Quarterly Tablet Tracker published by International Data Corporation (IDC). The greatest year-on-year volume decline … Read more
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