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At the end of September, Panasonic will begin mass-production of curved touch panels (5″ – 12″) for automotive use. The company says that the panel will be a highly sensitive capacitive-touch unit. Film sensors are integrated into a plastic cover panel, reducing the thickness of the unit. Openings in the panel, in which input switches … Read more
TCL Multimedia achieved a significant increase in sales of smart TVs in July, which rose 82.7% year on year to 317,548 sets. Total TV sales for the month, however, dipped 1.3% to over 1.1 million sets. The group’s total LCD TV sales in China were down 18.7% YoY to 404,954 units, of which the sales … Read more
A report from Ofcom shows that linear TV viewing continued to fall in the UK last year. There was a 1-minute rise in on-demand viewing, but a 12-minute fall in linear viewing. This led to average daily viewing falling by 11 minutes compared to 2013 – the second consecutive year of decline. In addition, while … Read more
Planar Systems Inc. has released its third quarter results, posting a net loss of $293,000 on turnover of $42.5 million, which compares with a net profit in Q3 of last year of $706,000 on turnover of $45.8 million. In the first nine months of the year, Planar recorded a net profit of $4.4 million on … Read more
Nvidia Corporation posted a second quarter net profit of $26 million, down 79% from $128 million in Q2 of last year, on turnover which was flat year on year at $1.1 billion. Net profit in the first six months of the year fell 39% to $160 million from $265 million a year earlier, while turnover … Read more
JOLED plans to create a research and development centre in spring next year, where work will be done to establish technologies for mid-size OLED mass production. Established by Sony and Panasonic, JOLED is targeting 10″ – 20″ displays for use in tablets and notebooks. It aims to begin pilot production in the spring and ship … Read more
A tablet with an integrated DLP projector, the ProjectorPad P70, has been developed by Aiptek. It is a 7″ tablet, but using the projector the on-screen image can be mirrored and displayed at a diagonal up to 120″. A 1.6GHz quad-core processor (ARM Cortex A9) runs Android 4.4.4, with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of … Read more
Foxconn has signed an agreement with India’s Maharashtra state for a five year, $5 billion investment in a new electronic manufacturing facility. Company founder, Terry Gou, said earlier this week that he was considering establishing manufacturing units in various states in India, as well as forging partnerships in India’s fast-growing smartphone market. In May, the … Read more
Innolux said sales in July fell 1.7% sequentially and 18.6% year on year, to NT$29.7 billion ($938.2 million), bringing sales for the first seven months of the year to NT$123.4 billion ($3.8 billion). The company’s president, JC Wang said that the company expects to achieve only slight growth in the second half of the year, … Read more
A report from Korea’s Money Today claims that Samsung Display is to invest $3 billion to expand OLED display module facilities in Vietnam. The result would be a more vertically-integrated supply chain in the country. SDC has apparently already been granted approval from the Vietnamese government.
Smart Technologies Inc reported its financials for its first fiscal quarter to the end of June. Revenue was down by 20% year on year to $98.7 million, and there was a loss of $3.7 million, up from $300K last time, as the company transitions to its new Kapp products. The company said that it has … Read more
Key Ingredient (www.keyingredient.com), a high-tech company focused on making cooking easy and smart by harnessing the latest technologies to advance the digital cooking experience for home cooks, has launched the SmartPrompt™ Pan, the first smart cooking pan with a built-in display that accesses more than 2 million recipes. The SmartPrompt Pan is currently available to … Read more
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