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Samsung Sees Significant Adoption of Foldable Smartphones as Enterprise Demand Doubles

Samsung Electronics announced the number of Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip smartphones sold for enterprise use has more than doubled year on year. From January to October 2022, the number of foldable smartphones Samsung contracted to enterprise customers increased by 105% compared to the same period in 2021.1 With foldable smartphone shipments expected … Read more

8K QD-OLED TVs and high-res QD-OLED monitors are getting closer (or maybe not!)

What They Say FlatPanelsHD reported a ‘transient’ press release that said that Kateeva was celebrating shipping a G8.5 inkjet printer ‘for high-volume production of QD-OLED displays to a leading manufacturer. Known as “Jarvis”, the tool will be used to print displays for 8K TVs and high-resolution monitors’. The press release was later removed but it … Read more

TCLE Mini LED Smart Screens Win CES® 2023 Innovation Awards

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TCL Electronics Holdings Limited is pleased to announce that TCL Mini LED 4K Smart Screen 75C935 and TCL Mini LED 4K Smart Screen 75C835 have been awarded the CES® 2023 Innovation Award for their striking innovative design and engineering features. The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in … Read more

34 inches at 175 Hz—See More Faster with Alienware QD-OLED Gaming Monitor

Alienware’s 34-inch curved QD-OLED gaming monitor (AW3423DW) was the first and may be the only true gaming quantum dot OLED (QD-OLED) gaming monitor. A few other companies are offering repurposed 4K 45-in plus flat faced 138 Hz TVs as a gaming monitor. Alienware is curved, has quantum dot display, G-Sync and is 27% faster. Samsung, … Read more

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Growth to Decline 3.6% in 2023

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Global semiconductor revenue is projected to decline 3.6% in 2023, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. In 2022, the market is on pace to grow 4% and total $618 billion. “The short-term outlook for semiconductor revenue has worsened,” said Richard Gordon, Practice Vice President at Gartner. “Rapid deterioration in the global economy and weakening … Read more

NB Panel Shipments in October Dropped to a Decade Low for That Month and Will Remain in a Slump in 4Q22, but Growth Will Return in 1Q23, Says TrendForce

TrendForce’s latest research finds that shipments of display panels used in notebook computers (NB panels) came to 13.5 million pieces (pcs) in this October, showing a MoM drop of 16.1% and a YoY drop of 45.0%. Based on TrendForce’s tracking of NB panel shipments, this figure is a 10-year low for the month of October. … Read more

China’s Consumer VR Shipment to Reach Nearly 7 Million Units in 2026, According to IDC

According to a recent IDC forecast, consumer standalone VR shipments in China increased by 166.2% year-over-year in the first half of 2022. China standalone VR in 2022Q1 reached 229 thousand units shipped, while 2022Q2 had almost 273 thousand units shipped. The VR landscape has had an increase in players compared with previous years, and many … Read more

Bottom Up, ‘Cinematic’ Chemistry for Blue QDs

Most quantum dot displays use a source of blue light (LEDs in nearly all cases except Samsung Display’s QD-OLED panels) but this means that you have to make the blue light emit from the display in the same way as the red and green light, which adds some challenges. In particular, more than you want … Read more

Apple to lose 6 Million iPhone 14 Pros

What They Say Bloomberg quoted “a person familiar with assembly operations” as saying that Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro shipments could fall short by 6 million units after the disruption in Zhengzhou, China that we reported last week (Foxconn Chinese iPhone Plant in Unrest Breakout). The shortfall is expected to be made up in 2023. The … Read more

[China Trend Report] Further Delays to BOE Chengdu B16 Line Investment

What They Say UBI Research of Korea published a press release that said that there is a possibility that the investment in BOE’s B16 8.7G OLED line located in Chengdu will be further delayed. A member of the State Assets Commission, Beijing Municipal government’s regulations on BOE Group is the cause. Staffing for the line had … Read more