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As production costs fall and supplier talks continue, LG Display expects its OLED TV technology to make a profit in 2015. David Choi (SVP of LGD’s strategy marketing group) said at an event in Seoul that lower manufacturing costs will reduce prices and end losses, according to Bloomberg. These lower prices – plus deals with … Read more
PC monitor shipments continued to fall worldwide in Q2’14, when compared to the same period a year earlier. The 32.5 million PC monitor shipments represented a YoY decline of 2.9%, IDC’s data has shown – although this is still 4% higher than forecast. The firm expects no change in the trend, predicting slippage to 107 … Read more
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has referred to the workstation market’s Q2’14 as a ‘breakout quarter’ (while admitting that characterising a mature market as ‘breakout’ “verges upon [an] oxymoron”). Q2 saw record levels of unit volume and revenue in global workstations. 1.05 million units were shipped worldwide: 10.8% QoQ and 11.5% YoY growth. The result is … Read more
Samsung is to withdraw from the German notebook market. According to local media, the decision is only related to the German market; Samsung will stop selling notebooks (and Chromebooks) to focus on more profitable segments.
Since committing to an investment in Sharp at the end of 2012 (Display Monitor Vol 19 No 49), Qualcomm has been working with the Japanese company to develop a display using both Pixtronix’s MEMS and Sharp’s IGZO technologies. We saw the first example of their work, a 7″ display, at SID 2013 (Display Monitor Vol … Read more
The global semiconductor market will be valued at $336.3 billion next year, a 3.1% YoY rise, says Taiwan’s MIC. Primarily this is due to the Apple Watch and new Internet of Things products. Taiwan’s shipment value will grow at almost double the global rate, up 6% to TWD2.2 trillion ($72.8 billion), driven by increased shipments … Read more
Zytronica will present what it calls ‘an insight into emerging trends for human-machine interfaces’ at Electronica in Germany (11th – 14th November). A particular focus will be given to curved screens, with the centrepiece being a proof-of-concept concave 40″ multitouch display. A waist-high 19″ touchscreen keyboard will also be shown on the same printed glass … Read more
Worldwide UltraHD panel shipments will exceed 17.2 million units this year – a 473.4% increase on 2013. Data from Taiwan’s MIC shows that these units underwent a 178.8% QoQ increase in Q2, almost reaching 4.4 million shipments. Share of the total LCD TV panel market was about 7%. In Q4, MIC forecasts that more than … Read more
This article first appeared in the Display Standard newsletter, ‘Veritas et Visus’ (www.veritasetvisus.com) Last month, the UK
The 42″ 4209L is a new interactive LCD signage display from Elo Touchsystems. Designed for 24/7 operation, the screen is rated for an MTBF of 50,000 hours. As part of Elo’s Intellitouch series, the 4209L uses surface acoustic wave (SAW) touch technology. Dual-touch is supported. Resolution is 1920 x 1080, with a VA panel providing … Read more
All of BenQ’s newest M5 DLP projectors, designed for small and medium spaces, output 3,200 lumens of light and have a lamp life (190W) of up to 10,000 hours. As well as outputting 10-bit colour, the MX525, MS524 and MW526 all feature BenQ’s Smarteco technology. Several modes are designed to lower power consumption and raise … Read more
USB 3.0 docking stations are now relatively common, but Club 3D believes that it has developed a world first: a dock that can connect a device to an UltraHD monitor and transfer high-resolution signals. The Sensevision CSV-3103D uses Displaylink’s DL-5000 chipset (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 3), which can transport UltraHD signals at 30fps over … Read more
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