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Samsung Group’s Future Strategy Office is expected to conduct a managerial review of Samsung Display, which will cover the company’s business plan, strategies and portfolio, to try to establish what can be improved. In the third quarter, Samsung Display posted an operating profit of KRW60 billion ($55.2 million), down 94% from Q3 a year earlier, … Read more
There have been unconfirmed reports that Samsung is planning to reassign around 30% of the workforce in its IT and mobile business. Sources suggest that both employees and executives will be affected and will be relocated to other divisions based on performance evaluations. This would be the company’s largest reorganisation since the IM unit was … Read more
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory showed two new OLED displays at Display Innovations 2014 in Japan last month. The first was a 2.8″ colour unit with 2560 x 1440 resolution – 1,049ppi! A c-axis aligned oxide semiconductor is used for the backplane. The gate driver is formed on a substrate and the source driver using a chip … Read more
Sharp Electronics Marketing Company of America (SEMCA) has announced the appointment of Jim Sanduski as interim president, following the sudden departure of John Herrington, who had been president of SEMCA for more than four years. Herrington has left Sharp “to pursue other opportunities”. Sanduski has been with Sharp for three and a half years and … Read more
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is using AltoBeam’s ATBM7811B and ATBM7812B demodulator chips in its new tuner modules, the DNOQ44QAH109A and DNOQ44QAV109A. These modules support the reception of DVB-T/T2/C/S/S2 digital television broadcasts.
User Interface – Jay Esfandyari of STMicroelectronics (STM) presented the Sensor Tutorial at the event. Esfandyari began his tutorial by charting the evolution of human interface technology from the 1940’s through to the present and into the future. In his overview of sensors for human interaction he cited microphones, motion sensors, environmental sensors, touch sensors, … Read more
A 20m² videowall has been installed at the Institute of Visual Computing at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg College in Germany. The display uses 35 displays from Eyevis: the 46″ EYE-LCD-4600-M-USN-LD, which has 1920 x 1080 resolution and 700 cd/m² of brightness. The total screen resolution is 72MP. Three workstations, with three graphics cards each and four 1920 x … Read more
Epson’s new short-throw projector line-up is aimed at education environments. Teachers can use the bundled Moderator device management software and an optional wireless module to connect the projectors with up to 50 devices. Content from up to four devices – tablets, smartphones or PCs – can be shared on each projector at the same time. … Read more
There have been two stories lately about high-resolution panels developed by Sharp. First is a continuation of the UltraHD smartphone panel rumour that we covered last month (Display Monitor Vol. 21 No 43); this claimed that Sharp was developing a 5″ – 6″ panel to be produced in 2016. According to The Japan Times, Sharp’s … Read more
Sharp Corporation returned to profit in the first six months of the year, reporting a net profit of ¥4.7 billion ($40.9 million) on turnover of ¥1.32 trillion ($11.5 billion), which compares with a net loss in the first half of last year of ¥4.3 billion ($37.5 million) on turnover of ¥1.34 trillion ($11.7 billion). For … Read more
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), is to provide Sharp with a loan of ¥10 billion ($87.2 million), indicating the banking sectors’ improving confidence in Sharp’s turnaround strategy. The news came as Sharp reported that it had returned to profit in the second half of this year (see 345s in this issue) and revised up … Read more
Maxlinear has now sold more than 10 million of its MxL608 DVB-T2 tuners worldwide. Demand has been strong in ‘all markets’ using the DVB-T2 platform, the company said.
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