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Global shipments of diagnostic displays are forecast to grow at a 5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), between 2014 and 2018. According to the latest DisplaySearch Specialty Displays Report, larger high-resolution wide-aspect-ratio displays are starting to become more popular, but 21.3” displays had a 67% share of unit shipments and a 65% share of revenues … Read more
Touch specialist, TPK Holding, said sales for 2014 were down 18.6% from 2013 at NT$129.5 billion ($4.1 billion). Sales in the final month of the year were flat month on month at NT$13.3 billion ($420 million), though for the fourth quarter, TPK achieved a 21.4% sequential increase in sales at NT$39.6 billion ($1.2 billion).
JOLED, the joint venture company established by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Japan Display (JDI), Sony, and Panasonic last summer, has now been officially established and started operating. The new company was formed last August with the aim of producing small and medium sized OLED displays (JOLED Inc – the Japanese Answer for AMOLED). INCJ is … Read more
Radiant Opto-Electronics saw sales drop 28.5% year on year in December to NT$4.8 billion ($151.6 million), taking sales for the year to NT$51.4 billion ($1.6 billion), 19% lower than 2013. Shipments of BLUs for LCD monitors increased 41.3% sequentially in December to 479,000 units, while for TV use, shipments were almost 30% higher at 35,000 … Read more
Lenovo has completed the integration of IBM’s X86 server business in the UK and Ireland. Although the original deal between IBM and Lenovo was closed last October, the companies said at the time that employees and business operations in the EMEA region would be migrated from IBM to Lenovo over a period of a several … Read more
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) ended the year with a fall in both sales and panel shipments. December’s revenue of NT$4.5 billion ($142 million) was 8.8% lower than November and down 8.9% year on year, taking sales for the year to NT$56.4 billion ($1.8 billion), 3.9% lower than the previous year. The company’s large panel shipments … Read more
I hate fighting 3D Zombies. As soon as you dispatch one, another grotesque figure chins up, and here we go again. Another funny thing about zombies is it always seems like they sneak up on you. Of course, the zombie I am talking about is the long-buried yet persistent 3D canard: “3D is bad for our … Read more
A new consumer version of ODG (Osterhout Design Group) augmented reality technology was revealed at last week’s CES show in Las Vegas with the promise of a landmark styling in the what’s-old-is-new-again approach to its latest technology. The company said it turned to perhaps the most popular sunglass design in history, the RayBan Wayfarer for … Read more
A team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California (Riverside, CA) lead by Wenshou Wang is developing rewriteable paper. It is based on the use of color-switching dyes and an ultra violet light to write an image on a physical medium. At this time, the medium is either a glass or plastic film. The old … Read more
On Christmas Eve, Primeview USA Inc. (New York, NY) announced it was introducing an OLED monitor targeting industrial applications. The product is being introduced in partnership with LG Display (LGD) and, of course, uses LGD glass. Primeview PRV55OLED industrial display The initial product is a 55” industrial display, model number PRV55OLED, which will be available for delivery in Q1 … Read more
MediaTek announces its collaboration with Google on the world's first Ultra HD TV platform solution for Android TV — made possible through Google's Android TV software integration on MediaTek's MT5595 System on Chip (SoC) hardware. Consumers can watch movies and shows from Google Play, stream their favorite app, and play Android games on their Ultra … Read more
After a year of weak growth for the LCD TV industry in 2013, worldwide shipment growth has accelerated every quarter in 2014, with total units rising more than 10% in Q3’14. The latest Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report from DisplaySearch, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), has raised the global forecast for … Read more
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