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Nanosys Achieves EPA Approval

Nanosys says that it is the first quantum dot manufacturer to complete the USA’s Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) New Chemicals Programme review process. Approval of this process enables Nanosys to continue its production scale-up of QDs. Until Nanosys’ approval, all QDs in the USA were manufactured under the EPA’s Low Volume Exemption rule, which only … Read more

DuPont Displays, Kateeva Collaborate on OLED TVs

DuPont Displays and Kateeva are to join forces to develop optimised inks, equipment and processes to further advance inkjet printing technology for OLED TVs. The companies said that the aim of the collaboration is to establish a proven, cohesive offering for OLED device manufacturers that enables a simpler process for manufacturing OLED TV displays using … Read more

Workstations Suffer From Strong Q4

The Q1 global workstation market was seasonally down, but Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports that the decline was ‘substantially deeper’ than normal. Around 912,400 workstations were shipped in Q1’15, equal to an 11.7% QoQ and 3.5% YoY fall. Professional GPU shipments were similarly down, with shipments of just over 1 million units: the lowest industry … Read more

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 23

The Geforce GTX 980 GPU, Nvidia‘s newest flagship, is now even more powerful. The company has updated the card in the form of the new GTX 980Ti, with support for UltraHD gaming at an average of 45fps. Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture is used in the card, with support for DirectX 12. The new card also has … Read more

Roll-to-Roll Results are “Very Encouraging”

The UK’s Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is running a pilot of Beneq’s roll-to-toll atomic layer deposition (ALD) system. The system, which CPI acquired in 2014, is being used to prepare for producing ultra-barrier films for flexible solar cells, OLEDs and quantum dot films at a lower cost. The pilot process has been in operation … Read more

Yota Succeeds in E Ink/TFT Tablet

Russia’s Yota Devices has created a new tablet device with the same E Ink/TFT screen combination as the Yotaphone, according to local sources. Sergei Chemezov, head of state-owned Rostec (which owns a 25% stake in Yota), told the Vedemosti newspaper, “We are working on a tablet. I’ve already seen it”. One of its features is … Read more

Merck VP “Pretty Confident” on Samsung OLED TVs

Merck’s OLED unit VP, Udo Heider, is “pretty confident” that Samsung will begin to produce OLED TVs again. Samsung denied rumours that it will take up OLEDs again earlier this year (Samsung Denies OLED Rumours, Considers G10). In an interview with the Korea Times, Heider made the prediction based on the falling cost of OLED … Read more

Computex Roundup

Image credit: The Inquirer While many companies had lots to show at Computex, some remained quiet, sharing only a little information – or at least, little relevant to the display industry. Eyevis focused on the new features of v7.2 of its iChannel software: an on-site digital signage software solution. Features include a playlist editor, widgets … Read more

‘No Feature’ Smartwatch is Fully Customisable

A Taiwanese startup has shown a revolutionary smartwatch called the Noodoe at Computex – because it has no features. At all. Well, ok, there is one: it uses a wearer’s own imagination to tell the time. ‘Camera Brush’ is the smartwatch’s USP. A drawing is captured with a smartphone camera, using the Noodoe app. Elements … Read more