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LG’s Discover OLED promotion is a £3 million ($4.7 million) campaign, running until the end of the year, to support the company’s OLED TV range. The campaign consists of TV, online and experiential outdoor marketing activities. Consumers will also have a chance to win a 55″ EC930 OLED TV.
CEO of LG Display, Han Sang-beom, has won the Gold Tower Order of Industrial Service Merit award. It is presented for contribution to Korea’s display industry, and is the top award in Order of Industrial Service Merit’s five grades.
LG Display (LGD) is reported to have established a new division to focus exclusively on commercialising OLED technology. The new division is to be led by the company’s CTO, Yeo Sang-deog, who was recently promoted to president from executive VP for his contribution in securing LG’s OLED leadership and expanding client base in TVs and … Read more
Liberty Global plc has reported its third quarter and nine month results and also announced the completion of its tender offer to acquire Dutch cable operator, Ziggo. The company’s net profit in Q3 reached $157.1 million, compared with a net loss a year earlier of $830.1 million. The company said that this year on year … Read more
The 15.6″ P35X v3 from Gigabyte is marketed as the lightest laptop in its size category. Weighing between 2.2kg and 2.3kg, depending on components, the unit is less than 21mm thick. Dual heat pipes channel heat away from the sensitive components, aided by two fans for the CPU and GPU. Fan speed can be adjusted … Read more
Germany’s Mas Elektronik has introduced the ‘big brother’ to its Xoro Pad 8W2 tablet. The Xoro Pad 10W4 is one of the growing number of Intel tablets, running Windows 8.1 on a quad-core 1.8GHz processor and using Intel HD graphics. The 10.1″ display uses an IPS panel with 1280 x 800 resolution. The tablet features … Read more
Mediatek hit a new sales high last month, with sales increasing 16.5% sequentially to NT$21.6 billion ($706.6 million), a monthly record. October’s result helped Mediatek to achieve a 62.7% increase in sales for the period from January to October of NT$179.2 billion ($5.8 billion). The company has also released its third quarter results, posting a … Read more
Microchip Technology has said it will not be making an offer for UK-based chipmaker CSR. In September the US company was reported to have approached CSR with an acquisition offer (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 25), having previously rejected a preliminary offer as too low.
There were mixed results for Taiwan’s major notebook manufacturers in November. Acer reported a 1% month on month increase in sales in November to NT$28.5 billion ($913.7 million), though this was down 7.3% year on year. November’s result brought sales so far this year to NT$300.8 billion ($9.6 billion), down 9.3% from the same period … Read more
Asus’ Zenwatch (Display Monitor Vol. 21 No 36) is now available in the USA, for $200. The product will also be available on the Play Store later. Additionally, the company has launched its Eeebook X205 laptop (Display Monitor Vol. 21 No 36) in Germany, and The Memo Pad 7 in the UK. John Lewis is … Read more
Revenue from desktop monitor sell-in was up 7% YoY in Q3’14, thanks to an ASP rise of 10%. Meanwhile, shipments were down just over 3%, to 34 million units, says DisplaySearch. Manufacturers are trying to reverse the trend of declining monitor margins with larger sizes and improved features, justifying higher prices, said DisplaySearch’s Hidetoshi Himuro. … Read more
CRN.de has conducted a series of interviews with members of the monitor industry, from key companies in Germany. They include: Sebastian in het Panhuis of Asus (http://tinyurl.com/od8ckdw); Markus Korn of Samsung (http://tinyurl.com/noa7mv5); Michael Vorgberger of LG (http://tinyurl.com/nuf52rk); Dominic Mein of BenQ (http://tinyurl.com/ofzshh3); Lutz Hardge of AOC/MMD (http://tinyurl.com/nab495s); and Stephan Peters of NEC (http://tinyurl.com/p7f9yp8). Many different … Read more
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