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Unusually, we lead this week with a technical story. However, the breakthrough in blue lifetime could be significant indeed. It was 2003 when we reported two talks by David Fyfe of CDT, one of the pioneering companies in OLED (and later acquired by Sumitomo). One was at the DisplaySearch event in the March and the … Read more
Jabil Circuit Inc. has announced its preliminary fourth quarter and full year results. The company recorded a net loss in the final quarter of $26.2 million on turnover of $4 billion, which compares with a net profit in Q4 of the previous year of $127 million on turnover of $4.5 billion. For the year, Jabil’s … Read more
Microsoft eschewed the conventional wisdom of linear numbers with its announcement of Windows 10 recently, completely bypassing Windows 9. The name signals that the OS is not an incremental update. As predicted, the Start Menu makes its long-awaited return, with a blend between the old list of apps and a selection of resizable live tiles. … Read more
French industrial gases producer Air Liquide has won a ‘major’ contract with BOE. Under the terms, Air Liquide will provide gas to BOE’s new G8.5 FPD fab in Chonqing, China. The factory will be commissioned in the first half of next year, producing displays for laptops, tablet and monitors, using technologies such as Oxide-TFT.
Mozilla’s Chromecast rival, Matchstick (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26), has been revealed, with a competitive price of $25. The device, which was quickly funded on Kickstarter (http://tinyurl.com/karoadz), uses open-source software. Developers are being invited to build apps now, although first-gen Chromecast apps will run as standard. Matchstick connects to an HDMI port and features … Read more
Asahi Glass Co. (AGC) has begun sales of a new, anti-reflective glass called Clearsight. The product possesses higher resistance to chemicals and the weather. A special coating is applied to the inner and outer faces of the glass, lowering reflectance and minimising reflections. Up to this point, AGC has been using imported anti-reflective glass, although … Read more
PMA Research has announced the top-selling projectors in North America in August. The company divides the results into three categories: ‘pico and personal’; ‘mainstream’; and ‘high end’. Aaxa took three of the top five pico and personal models. The P4-X, P300 Pico and P2 Jr. were placed in first, third and fourth respectively. These models … Read more
The production of flexible displays is currently dependent on ITO material, for transparent conductive and encapsulation films. Replacing ITO is proving difficult, with challenges in terms of cost, sustainability and manufacturing scale. The project was set up because throughout Europe, it is proving extremely difficult to develop the manufacture of these alternative materials beyond laboratory … Read more
Samsung’s upcoming A3 line will use a new hybrid encapsulation technology, Korea’s UBI Research claims. Rather than the current Vitex technique, the new method will be ‘similar to the method that LG Display takes’, where the film is laminated after the resin coating process. The A3 fab is a G6 line, due to begin operation … Read more
We recently reported on how AT&T and Verizon are showing signs that they will be rolling out LTE-Broadcast. AT&T has now added more sound bites to the growing push, saying that it is building a network to deliver video to LTE-enabled devices over a new LTE Broadcast network of its own design. Speaking at the … Read more
UK retail chain Argos has made two new appointments as part of its strategy to become a digital retail leader. Ian Dobson joins the company as head of customer and market insight, in which role he will lead the development of strategies driven by an understanding of customers and how they shop. Matt Hobbs has … Read more
Nanoco Group has appointed Keith Wiggins to the newly created role of COO. He joins Nanoco from Dow and will be responsible for the operational management of the company including key customer relationships and a focus on building Nanoco’s strategic businesses.
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