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Phosphor & Quantum Dot Industry Forum 2022

Last week was the return of the in-person Phosphor & Quantum Dot Industry Forum. It’s always a challenge to distil conferences like this into key takeaways, but here is my best shot at highlighting three trends I observed: Energy, Color, Non-display applications. Energy There was a new focus on energy this year in a number … Read more

Raysolve Microdisplay Shown

What They Say Raysolve based in Hong Kong has released a video demonstrating its latest 0.39″ microLED monolithic microdisplay which is based on blue LEDs with a photolithographic QD colour conversion layer (Raysolve Announced the First Demonstration of 0.39-inch single-chip full-color Micro-LED Micro-Display, Standardized Products are Coming Soon) What We Think Raysolve raised $10 million … Read more

New Technique for Perovskite Patterning from Korea

What They Say Perovskite-info.com reported a new R&D project to develop a new patterning technique for the production of perovskite nanocrystal displays which are ultra-thin and high-resolution. The technique uses a ‘stamp-like’ printing process. The team is said to have made RGB patterns at 2,550 ppi.  The printed PeLEDs are claimed to have outstanding electroluminescence … Read more

Eizo Now Over 40% Health Care

What They Say Showing that even fully B2B businesses are not immune from the global slowdown and chill winds of negative consumer sentiment, Eizo Corp announced revenues down 16.4% for the first half of its fiscal year to the end of September at $248 million, with income falling by 64.3% to $17 milllion. The firm … Read more

China’s Smartphone Market Dropped 11.9% in 3Q22, a Double-Digit Decline for the Third Consecutive Quarter, IDC Reports

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 71.1 million smartphones shipped in China in 3Q22, down 11.9% year-on-year (YoY). The decline was narrower than the previous two quarters despite the continued weak demand. The market saw its first quarter-on-quarter growth of 6.0% in the year, partly supported by Apple’s iPhone 14 series and Huawei’s … Read more

Tablet and Chromebook Shipments Continued to Decline in Q3 Amidst Ongoing Market Headwinds, According to IDC Tracker

Worldwide tablet shipments were down 8.8% year over year in the third quarter of 2022 (3Q22), totaling 38.6 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. This was the fifth straight quarter of decline for the tablet market. Chromebook shipments also struggled in 3Q22, falling to … Read more

Omdia: Global Smartphone Shipments See Worrying 7.6% Fall from the Previous Year, with Chinese OEMs Taking the Biggest Hit

The latest Omdia smartphone preliminary shipment report for the third quarter of 2022 shows that global smartphone shipments totaled 301.2 million units. This marks a decrease of 7.6% compared to the same period last year, but a 2.5% increase compared to the previous quarter. Major set OEMs in China recorded the greatest negative growth, compared … Read more

Skyworth Digital Technology Broadens its RDK Content Offering through the NetRange Smart TV Portal for RDK

NetRange MMH GmbH, an ACCESS company and a global provider of white-labelled, turnkey Smart TV and OTT ecosystems, and Skyworth Digital Technology, have announced that the NetRange Smart TV Portal for RDK and the NetFront™ Browser BE have been selected to provide global content services through Skyworth RDK set-top boxes. RDK is a powerful open … Read more