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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

No more from Apple in 2022 – Gurman

What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple-watcher, Mark Gurman has said that there will be no further new Apple products this year, despite previous rumours. He expects M2-based MacBook Pro models with 14″ and 16″ displays in the the first quarter of 2023 when macOS Ventura 13.3 and iOS 16.3 launch. Gurman quotes comments from Apple executives about … Read more

Mid-week Links – Week Ending 4th November 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. DTG updates D-Book An internet full of data in one second…. Strategy Analytics: vivo Topped China Smartphone Market in Q3 2022 Leyard gets approval for digital cinema LED display … Read more

DSCC Supply Chain Conference: Outlook and Issues for the TV and IT Market

Display market outlook and issues were discussed at DSCC’s “The 2022 Global Display Supply Chain Dynamics & Technology Conference” on October 19th. It gave a glimpse of what is happening in the current market and what to expect in next few years. Flat Panel display Market Slowed Down in 2022 According to Bob O’Brien’s ‘Display … Read more

Samsung’s Profits Decline But Display Sets Profit Record

What They Say DSCC dug into the recent Samsung Q3 results and trends. (Samsung Electronics Down but Still Makes $7.65 billion). After looking at overall revenues and semiconductors the firm analysed the results for the different divisions over time.  Samsung’s inventory was already high at the end of Q2 but increased further in Q3. Samsung … Read more

Daktronics Offers ‘Light Mitigation’

What They Say Daktronics put out a press release that highlighted that it is able to supply ‘light mitigation’ technology that can help where light spilling from large LEDs under the name LightDirect. The technology uses special louvres to block the light emission in unwanted directions. Daktronics said that it also offers site-specific light emissions … Read more

Exhibitions: TDK Showcases Smart Glasses Equipped with Ultra-Compact Full Color Laser Module at Major Exhibitions

TDK Corporation will display first-of-its-kind smart glasses equipped with the world’s smallest class* ultra-compact full-color laser module (FCLM) under development by TDK during CEATEC 2022. The demonstration will showcase how projection is made possible for both eyes of the laser direct retinal projection glasses using the FCLM, overcoming the long-standing issue of displays with a … Read more