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Gorilla Glass Targets Automotive and Alternative Applications and Technologies

While Corning’s Gorilla Glass is aimed primarily at mobile devices, the company has set up a separate group to look at alternative uses for the product. In our exclusive tour at the Sullivan Park Corning facility, we had a chance to learn more about how it is being used in automotive, architectural and other applications. … Read more

Graphics Market Begins Return to Traditional Trends

After the turmoil of the recession, the graphics chip market appears to be (finally) returning to its typical seasonality, says Jon Peddie Research (JPR), having estimated shipments in Q3’14. The third quarter is traditionally the biggest growth quarter of the year in terms of graphics chip shipments. Overall unit shipments were down 7% QoQ at … Read more

Hannstar Display Result 2/11/2014

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Hannstar Display Corporation announced turnover in Q3 of NT$5.6 billion ($183 million), down 32.8% year on year from NT$8.4 billion ($274.6 million). The company reported a net loss for the quarter of NT$580.4 million ($18.9 million), compared with a net profit in the third quarter of last year of NT$2.2 billion ($71.9 million). For the … Read more

Hannstar Falters in October

Hannstar Display achieved a 7.2% month on month increase in sales in October, though year on year sales of NT$2.1 billion ($68.6 million) represented a 12.9% decline. October’s result brought sales for the period from January to October to NT$19.5 billion ($637.4 million) down 29.2% from the same ten month period of 2013. Hannstar shipped … Read more

Hannstar Year to Date Sales Fall 26.6%

Hannstar Display reported sales of NT$2.1 billion ($67.3 million) last month, 0.4% down from October but 10.7% higher than November 2013, bringing sales for the year so far to NT$21.6 billion ($692.6 million), down 26.6% year on year. Hannstar’s small and medium sized panel shipments reached just over 38 million units, 8.3% higher MoM, while … Read more

Haptics in Hand at TGM 2014

Haptic technology was a tangible component of TGM. Haptics presentations were offered by Tactus Technology, Novasentis, Aito, and Tangible Haptics. Tactus Technology continues its push toward a product launch with its manufacturing partner Wystron and is claiming product “traction in multiple markets: smartphones, tablets, and laptops”. The images show several examples of the implementation of … Read more

Hon Hai Posts 22% Jump in Sales

Hon Hai Precision (which trades as Foxconn Electronics) grew sales in October by 22.6% year on year to NT$469 billion ($15.3 billion), bringing sales for January to October to NT$3.2 trillion ($104.6 billion), 5.8% higher than the same ten month period of last year. The company is expected to reach new highs in sales in … Read more

Hon Hai Posts Record Monthly Sales

Strong demand for Apple products helped Hon Hai Precision achieve record sales in November of NT$514.8 billion ($16.5 billion), up 12.8% from November 2013 and 9.8% higher than October. In the first 11 months of the year, Hon Hai’s total sales reached NT$3.7 trillion ($118.6 billion), representing an increase of 6.7% from the same period … Read more

Hon Hai, Innolux to Set-up Joint Panel Plant

Hon Hai Precision and Innolux are to invest NT$50 billion ($1.6 billion) in a joint venture 6G panel production plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to produce LTPS panels for smartphones. Sources suggest that the plant could have a monthly production capacity of 30,000-50,000 units. The joint venture, which will be between Innolux and another of Hon … Read more

HP Predicts The Omen Will be Gaming’s Future

The HP Omen is a gaming notebook focused on performance and portability. Powered by a quad-core 2.5GHz (3.5GHz in boost mode) Intel Core i7 CPU and with Nvidia Geforce 860M graphics, the Omen is said to be optimised for smooth framerates. Heat has a large affect on notebooks, especially when they are used for gaming, … Read more