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Acer is reported to have set up a venture capital fund as it seeks long-term investments to strengthen its technology development. Acer Venture Capital manages more that NT$1 billion ($33.5 million) and is overseen by an investment director who was brought into the company to manage the fund. Acer’s chairman and founder, Stan Shih, was … Read more
Microchip Technology, of the USA, has approached UK-based Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) with an acquisition offer. CSR announced that it had rejected Microchip’s preliminary offer as too low, according to the EE Times. Microchip has until 25th September to announce a new offer.
LG Display (LGD) held an opening ceremony earlier this week for its first overseas LCD panel fabrication plant in Guangzhou, China, expanding its presence by adding to its existing module assembly plant in the city. LGD plans to mass produce 40″ and above LCD TV panels at the new 8.5G plant, which will be operated … Read more
Microsoft’s EVP of Devices Stephen Elop has said that the company is getting close to mass production of large-screen touch displays, using technology it gained through its acquisition of Perceptive Pixel (PPI) two years ago (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 28). Elop was speaking at Microsoft’s Australian Partner Conference earlier this week and although he … Read more
This week we are highlighting LCD monitors in the 17″ standard category. There are 10 brands featured in the advertising with NEC Displays, Iiyama and BenQ the top three. In France, Iiyama was top followed by Lenovo in second and Acer, HP and NEC Displays in joint third. In Germany, Iiyama leads followed by NEC … Read more
This has been one of my famous “busy” weeks – merging the Large Display Report and Display Monitor in the same week that IFA has started may have been a little ambitious! Never mind, as I finish editing in the press room at IFA, it looks as though we have a good issue. Thanks to … Read more
Visualplanet will show an interactive touch sensor that can be applied to ‘any non-metallic surface’ at Midwich’s Technology Exposed on 17th and 18th September. The Touchfoil is a clear, large-format procap film. It will be demonstrated at the show enabling two-point touch on an 80″ shop window. The foil will be applied to the inside … Read more
IFA kicks off with a press event (although to try to get them all in, several are held before this one!). The format is much the same each year, so we’ve cut our report a bit shorter this time! IFA is 90 years old today, having started in 1924. There have been huge developments from … Read more
Acer was the first press conference and CEO Jason Chen started by saying that sales in Germany were double in Q2 2014 and in Austria, it was closer to 3X business. Chen said that he believes that Acer is “on its way back”. In the future, Acer will run a “Back to School” event each … Read more
The annual IFA conference on TV that is run by DisplaySearch and IFA took place in the new CityCube. A representative of IFA welcomed delegates and Paul Gray of DisplaySearch introduced the agenda. The first content session was by Paul Semenza of DispaySearch who gave an update on the market. There are significant changes in … Read more
David Hsieh looks after the Chinese market for DisplaySearch and is also responsible for the panel supply data. Hsieh is always an interesting speaker and he started by talking about “Smart Displays”. Hsieh defined Smart Displays as TVs, PCs and mobile phones with intelligence. Revenues in the FPD market are growing because of improving ASPs … Read more
Following the talks by Semenza and Hsieh, there was a panel session that was introduced by Paul Gray who asked, “Why UltraHD?” Looking at TV by region: * China – there is no clear winner in terms of local TV set brands – they are all fighting. The makers are showing competence compared to Japan … Read more
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