LG G4 Available in UK
LG’s new G4 smartphone is now available in the UK through Exertis and selected high street and network operator LG partners.
Visionox Begins AMOLED Mass-Production
Click to enlargeChina’s Visionox has begun mass-production of a 5.5″ AMOLED display panel, for the mid-range/high-end smartphone market. The company is using its G5.5 plant for the process (Visionox Follows Samsung in OLED Capacity).
Large Battery Options for Handheld Group’s Rugged Tablet
The Handheld Group’s Algiz A10X-7P01-V2 is a rugged tablet PC, running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 on a quad-core Intel Celeron CPU, with 4GB of RAM. It is compliant with IP65 and MIL-STD-810G protection, against solid and liquid ingress; temperature (-20° – 60°); humidity; shock; and vibrations. Resistive touch technology is used. 1366 x 768 … Read more
Taiwan Chip Makers Post Increased Sales
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) achieved a 15.4% year on year increase in sales in May to NT$70.1 billion ($2.2 billion), though this was 6.9% lower than the previous month. TSMC’s sales for the first five months of the year totaled NT$367.5 billion ($11.8 billion), 35.7% higher than the corresponding period of last year. United Microelectronics … Read more
Canal+ Expands Hybrid Offer
Canal+ has launched a new DTT/OTT receiver in France. Viewers can use the unit – Le Cube S – to access all of the company’s content via DTT signals or the internet.
Kopin Positive on New Applications (IC10)
Dr John Fan is CEO of Kopin, which makes microdisplays. Fan said that the company is looking strongly at going into wearables. He said that the headset is the most important wearable device, but is the most difficult to make well because of the channels. There are several categories of headset, one for “information snacking”, … Read more
Gagnon Warns on Inelastic Market for Large TVs (IC7)
In a talk over lunch, Paul Gagnon of IHS gave a good talk on TV trends. He was very interesting on the conservative nature of buyers of very big screens. The sales of very large (>60″) are really quite small. Price elasticity is very low in large TVs. Simply dropping prices doesn’t drive real volume. … Read more
Tactus Adds Feeling to Touch (IC6)
Tactus is a developer of IP for creating raised areas on touch screens, which it calls “Phorm”. This can be used to create better keyboards and input systems. The company has its first product coming out this year and its main manufacturing partner is Wistron. The first product is an add-on for an iPhone mini … Read more
Prysm Continues its Pivots (IC5)
Stuart Monks is from Prysm which has developed LPD laser phosphor displays. Monks came from Polycom to join the company and is looking at how collaboration occurs in an enterprise. Prysm, as we have reported before, is pivoting away from its LPD displays to other market segments based around collaboration on big displays. The company … Read more
Haptics Have Lots of Growth Opportunities (IC4)
The next section was entitled “Evolution of the Immersive Experience” and covered a range of technologies. Immersion is a company that is “about haptics” which it sees as the feedback for touch experiences. The speaker from the company was Paul Norris, CFO of Immersion, which is established in haptics IP. Adding haptics increases the richness … Read more
Nanoco Sees QD Applications beyond Displays (IC3)
Keith Wiggins is from Nanoco, the UK-based firm which has specialised in non-cadmium quantum dots. The company has 112 staff with more than 80 chemists. Wiggins believes that businesses that have a “sensory” impact have the best profits. The Nanoco business strategy is based on market applications and early feedback from Japan was that materials … Read more
Nanosys Wants 25% of the QD Market (IC2)
The next speaker was Jason Hartlove, CEO of Nanosys, a competitor to QDVision. Nanosys was founded in 2001 and Hartlove said that it has produced 4 tonnes (enough for more than 1 million TVs) of materials (Competitors we spoke to on the show floor wondered where all this material has gone, as shipments of QD-based … Read more
