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Foldable Smartphone Panel Shipments Expected to Be Down Sharply in Q4’22

What They Say DSCC said that the expected production of foldable shipments has been reduced from an earlier estimate of 5.4 million down to 2.9 million – a reduction of 46%. That would mean that the market would be down 54% QoQ and 26% YoY. The main factor is slow sell-through of the Z Flip … Read more

Slowdown in Display Fab Utilisation in Q3 Was Worse Than Expected and Continues – DSCC

What They Say DSCC pointed out that the LCD continues to suffer with display fab utilisation further slowing in Q3 and worse than expected. After a 6% sequential decline in Q2’22, total TFT input for all display makers in Q3 was down 20% QoQ and 24% YoY at 66.1 million m², and in the current Q4’22 the … Read more

Futaba expands its strategic relationship with RiTDisplay for the production of PMOLED displays

What They Say OLED-Info reports that Futaba will move its PMOLED production process to RiTDisplay and the firms will collaborate on technology and the development and sale of displays for automotive applications.  Futaba believes that producing its displays at RiTDisplay will enable it to reduce production costs and be more competitive, especially as competition is … Read more

Philips unveils its first QD-OLED and 42″ OLED monitors

What They Say Philips has launched a new sub-brand, Evnia, for game playing monitors and has three initial models A 34″ curved QD-OLED display 34M2C8600 – with 3440 x 1440 (21:9) resolution and 1800R curvature as well as VRR and 175Hz support – due in January for €1,850 A 42″ UltraHD OLED monitor 42M2N8900 with … Read more

TV panel prices stop falling

What They Say Digitimes said that Pan Tai-chi, general manager of the TV Business Center of Innolux had said that TV panel prices have started to re-bound as TV panel inventories have bottomed out for most brands. He also said that higher end monitors and TVs have ‘started to gain momentum’. Panel prices are likely to … Read more

HTC VIVE Partners With Imversed for an Innovative Mixed Reality Experience

HTC, one of the leading tech companies in the world, is proud to announce its partnership with Imversed in bringing mixed reality to life. HTC has its own virtual reality headset with VIVE, and Imversed presents an opportunity to combine HTC’s existing technology with alternate reality adaptation. Virtual reality, the simulated experience that employs pose tracking and … Read more

Taoping Launches Innovative Dual-Sided, Thin Film, Display; Targeting More than 200 High Value, Mall Installations in 2023

Taoping Inc. announced a new, state-of-the-art dual-sided, thin film, photonic-crystal display. The cutting-edge displays have already been successively deployed in numerous major shopping malls in China. Integreated with Taoping’s smart cloud distribution system, the innovative display is the latest transformative product offered to help customers more effectively market products and services to highly valued customers. Mr. Lin … Read more

Amazon says fear of Google putting off vendors from TV hardware partnership

What They Say Amazon said that fear of some retaliation by Google has deterred half a dozen hardware vendors from signing up in an investigation in India by the Competition Commission of India. The Commission fined Google $162 million after finding that Google abuses its strength in Android. Here’s what Amazon told the CCI: Amazon has … Read more

Links Week Starting 24th October 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. For the next couple of weeks, we will have more links and fewer/shorter articles because of Bob’s vacation. New Launch From Loewe OLED Bild V.48 Panel Maker Q3 … Read more

LG Display’s OLED Panels Obtain the Industry’s First ‘Perfect Black’ Verification from UL Solutions

LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced that its OLED panels have been recognized as the only existing TV and monitor panels to achieve perfect black levels in any environment. LG Display recently received the ‘Perfect Black’ verification for all OLED panel models ranging from 42 to 97 inches from the world-renowned … Read more

Watchfire Announces Purchase of Anthem Displays

Watchfire Signs, a leading manufacturer of premium digital displays owned by an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, is pleased to announce that it has completed the purchase of the assets of Anthem Displays, LLC. Headquartered in Elizabethtown, NC, Anthem Displays has been engaged as a digital billboard manufacturer since 2014 and was previously held by Circle … Read more