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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
SID’s Display Week will run from 31st May to the 5th June in San Jose this year. New to the 2015 show will be the addition of vehicle displays. There will also be technical symposium sessions on topics ranging from technologies (OLED, ePaper, plasma) to applications (HD and UltraHD, signage, touch). Additionally, SID has announced … Read more
MPEG LA has introduced a licence for the DisplayPort patent portfolio. The licence covers a variety of digital interface standards used to connect AV sources between products. Initial DisplayPort technology owners include Hitachi Maxell, Ltd; Koninklijke Philips; Silicon Image; and Sony. Any company with patents that it believes are essential to the DisplayPort standard is … Read more
JCDecaux SA has released its full year results, posting an EBIT of €303.1 million and turnover of €2.8 billion, which compares with an EBIT in the previous year of €219.6 million and turnover of €2.6 billion.
Global shipments of mobile phone display modules will rise just 4% YoY in 2015, says IHS, to 2 billion units. The result will be stronger competition among manufacturers of these units. Chinese makers are trying to increase their share of the global market – with BOE toppling Samsung Display in Q3 last year, to become … Read more
Sources at Innolux and AUO expect UltraHD TV panels to represent more than 30% of 50″+ LCD units shipped this year – a trend seen in December. Innolux also expects its wide colour gamut TV panels, which had a penetration of <5% in Q4’14, to reach 15% – 20% in Q1’15. The average size of … Read more
The newest in a long chain of rumours regarding Apple’s 12.9″ iPad has appeared. According to sources in Asia, the tablet will use Oxide TFTs and enter mass production in Q3’15. Samples are being sent to Apple by Sharp, LG Display and Samsung Display, although the sources said that Sharp is expected to be the … Read more
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