Dow to Build Cadmium-Free QD Plant in South Korea
The Dow Chemical Company is to start construction of what it claims is the world’s first large-scale, cadmium-free quantum dot manufacturing operation at the company
EC to Investigate Apple
The European Commission has concluded a preliminary investigation into Apple’s tax affairs in Ireland and concluded that the company benefited from unlawful state aid, following allegations of ‘special deals’ agreed with Irish authorities. The Commission has decided to launch an in-depth investigation into the arrangements between Apple and the Irish authorities, as part of a … Read more
OLED Breakthroughs
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 Result 01/10/2014
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
Will Windows 10 Fix The Errors of Windows 8?
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
New BOE Fab to be Supplied by Air Liquide
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.
Matchstick Sparks Kickstarter Rush
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
AGC’s Clearsight Suitable for Outdoor Use
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
Epson Continues to Perform in Top-Selling August Projectors
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
Pan-EU Project Tests ITO Replacements
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
UBI Predicts Changing Encapsulation at Samsung
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
Video Over LTE Gets Closer to US Deployment
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
