Panel Supply Delays iPad Pro
The oft-rumoured 12.9″ iPad Pro (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 45) has apparently been delayed again. According to Bloomberg’s sources, production will now begin in September, because of delays in display panel supply.
KOE Moves to High Res for Industry
KOE Europe has introduced a new 10.1″ LCD display module, with high resolution, for industrial use. While many industrial display modules have resolutions of 1024 x 768 or lower, KOE’s new TX26D202VM0BAA has 1920 x 1200, with a pixel density of 224ppi. The introduction is part of a continued move towards higher-quality displays for industrial … Read more
QMC Achieves Cadmium-Free Production
Quantum Materials Corporation (QMC) of San Marcos, Texas, is now shipping evaluation and production quantities of its red and green cadmium-free quantum dots (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 7).
Nearly 50% of US Homes Will Own a 4K TV by 2020, says Strategy Analytics
The USA will emerge as the leading market for 4K or Ultra HD TVs in terms of household penetration by 2020 followed by the leading Western European markets, Australia, South Korea and China. According to Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices (CHD) report “Ultra High Definition TV Displays: Global Market Forecast,” demand for UHD TVs is … Read more
Andromium MHL Dock turns Smartphones into Notebooks
Andromium has developed a “guest OS” and hardware dock to turn smartphones into notebooks, exploiting the MHL architecture. The product is aimed at developing markets and the firm says that complete packages of phone and dock could sell for $250 to $300. We spoke to Gordon Zheng at MWC in Barcelona.
Samsung Display Apparently New Apple Supplier
As we have reported in the past (Apple Looks to LG for AMOLED), it is very likely that LG Display is supplying the flexible AMOLED screen to be used on the Apple Watch. New media reports from Korea now claim that Apple has signed a deal with Samsung Display to become the second supplier for … Read more
Electronic Partner to Distribute Hisense in Germany
Electronic Partner in Germany is to become an exclusive distributor of Hisense smartphones and tablets across the country.
Lenovo Names new Head of Channel Business
Lenovo’s head of SMB in Germany and Austria, Robert Pasquier, has decided to leave the company and is to be replaced by Bernhard Fauser. Fauser currently serves as director of sales for Lenovo’s Central Region.
Valve Streams Games Cheaply, Provides Console Release Date
Valve has finally provided a date for the release of its Steam Machine consoles. Units will begin to be released from November this year. At the same time the company showed off the Steam Link: a box that can stream games from a PC or Steam Machine to a TV, at 1920 x 1080 resolution … Read more
Gear VR Consumer Version Coming This Year, Says Oculus
Samsung’s Gear VR (Samsung Brings B2B to Consumer Show) will be launched this year alongside the Galaxy Note 5 – or so implied John Carmack, CTO of Oculus VR. Carmack told Game Developers’ Conference attendees that the product would be launched with Samsung’s next hardware cycle. Samsung’s new Note devices tend to be launched at … Read more
Semiconductors Rise to New January High
Worldwide semiconductor sales in January were the highest they have ever been at the beginning of a year, according to the USA’s Semiconductor Industry Association. Total sales reached $28.5 billion – an 8.7% YoY climb from January 2014’s $26.3 billion. Seasonal trends were reflected in the fact that these sales were 2% lower than those … Read more
HTC’s February Sales Rise 27% YoY
HTC achieved a 27.7% year on year rise in sales in February to NT$9.2 billion ($292.1 million), though this was 25% lower than January’s result. Last month’s total brought sales for the first two months of 2015 to NT$21.5 billion ($682.5 million), up 27.3% from the same period of 2014.
