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Pricing of LCD TV panels will soften in Q2’15, say sources in Asia, as China’s BOE ramps up production at the G8.5 Chongqing plant. LG Display will also increase its shipments. These factors will increase supply and lower pricing. TV panel demand is expected to pick up this month as Chinese vendors prepare for promotions … Read more
AU Optronics (AUO) saw sales and panel shipments decline in February. Revenue for the month of NT$28.3 billion ($895.8 million) was 11.8% lower than January and broadly flat year on year, taking sales so far this year to NT$60.5 billion ($1.9 billion), 1.2% ahead of the first two months of 2014. AUO shipped just over … Read more
Efforts to clear inventory have limited PC shipments worldwide in Q1’15. It is thought in Taiwan that this will cause a 20% QoQ fall in shipments, according to ODMs and component makers. PC demand has been limited, due to a lack of innovative features and competition from mobile devices. Apple is apparently the only player … Read more
Photo credit: CNetRazer has shown a new prototype of its OSVR headset, first seen at CES (Razer Strikes Nvidia’s Shield). The original used an LCD display, which has now been changed for an OLED. Additionally the unit can now connect to smartphones and mirror its display to another screen. Razer has also introduced two modular … Read more
Samsung has said that pre-orders for its new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphones have reached record levels. 20 million orders had been placed by mobile operators at the end of the weekend following MWC: 15 million for the S6 and 5 million for the S6 Edge.
Sony has licensed Microvision’s PicoP laser beam scanning (LBS) pico projector technology. The company will pay an $8 million upfront license fee, as well as royalty payments. Microvision and Sony have been working together since April 2013.
Chughwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a 21.4% month on month and 18.4% year on year fall in sales last month to NT$3.8 billion ($120.2 million). February’s result brought sales to date to NT$8.6 billion ($272.2 million), 6.7% lower than the same period of 2014. CPT shipped 114,000 large panels, down 15.6% sequentially but slightly higher … Read more
An American company, Thumbs Up!, has introduced its own VR headset – although it doesn’t have a display. In the style of Google Cardboard the Samsung’s Gear VR, the Immerse Virtual Reality Headset is compatible with ‘most’ Android phones and iPhones and includes 360° head tracking. The salient point is the price: $40.
At the recent IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in San Francisco February 22 – 26, R. Funatsu from NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, (STRL) (Tokyo, Japan) and 11 of his colleagues from NHK and Forza Silicon, (Pasadena, CA) presented a paper titled “133Mpixel 60fps CMOS Image Sensor with 32-Column Shared High-Speed Column-Parallel … Read more
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, the Apple Watch smartwatch will ship 15 million units worldwide in 2015. Apple will quickly become the world’s number one smartwatch vendor with 55 percent global marketshare this year. Cliff Raskind, Director at Strategy Analytics, said, “We forecast total global smartwatch shipments to grow 511 percent from … Read more
MPEG LA, LLC today announced the availability of the DisplayPort Patent Portfolio License. The DisplayPort License provides coverage for a variety of digital interface technology standards used in connecting audio/video sources among products such as computer monitors, video projectors, televisions, adaptors, personal computers, graphic cards, motherboards, storage devices, smartphones, tablets, flat panel displays and cameras. … Read more
John Archer, writing for Forbes, has discovered that LG plans to launch an OLED HDR ‘solution’ this year. OLED has been criticised recently, mainly by LG’s competitors who do not have their own OLED models. The most common issue raised is the fact that OLED technology – while very dark – is not bright enough … Read more
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