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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
Scala has added NEC’s OPS digital player system (OPS-DRD) to its certified Android player family. The OPS-DRD is an all-in-one solution for managing dynamic displays in cost-sensitive, heavy-volume segments. Video resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 are supported, with 24/7 use due to a fanless design and solid state components.
The recent launch of Windows 10 in 2H 2015 has many PC OEMs holding their breath that the revamped operating system software will trigger a replacement opportunity for aging laptops. According to the latest market data findings from ABI Research, total system shipments for portable computing are predicted to reach 165 million units for full-year … Read more
Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. and Granite River Labs (GRL) today announced the expansion of the SlimPort® Adopters Program (SAP?) to include the USB Type-C™ connector. Available to any USB Type-C device manufacturer, the program offers SlimPort® certification including signal quality pre-test for DisplayPort, HDMI and VGA, interoperability testing to confirm the maximum display resolution with devices … Read more
“When will elasticity kick-in”? That question posed by an investment banker before taking LG Display public in 2004 seems pertinent today, a dozen years later. My answer then was that elasticity will kick-out, not in, because the tide of replacement demand in the PC market was ebbing away. Perhaps that deserves more explanation because people … Read more
AMOLED material consumption will ‘surge’ in the second half of 2015, says IHS, as LG Display increases production of its WOLED TV panels. The WOLED material market was worth $58 million in the first half of this year. However, IHS predicts almost threefold growth, to $165 million, in the second half. A CAGR of 79% … Read more
Winners of the 2015-2016 EISA awards, from the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), have been announced. The group named Philips’ 55PUS7600 as the ‘Best Buy TV’ winner; LG’s 65EG960V for ‘European Home Theatre TV’; LG 65UF950V for ‘European Smart TV’; Samsung’s UE65JS9500 for ‘European High End TV’; and Sony’s KD-65X9005C for ‘European Design TV’.
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