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PCs Rise in APAC QoQ, But YoY Comparison is Down

The market for PCs in APACxJ was up 8% QoQ in Q3, but down 5% YoY according to IDC. Total shipments equalled 26.6 million units – higher than the firm’s original forecasts. Consumer shipments were higher than expected in the region’s two largest markets: China and India. Retail walk-in purchases were high in India following … Read more

Russian PCs Remain Low for Seventh Quarter

PC shipments in Russia have fallen for the seventh consecutive quarter, IDC data has shown. Shipments were down 16.1% YoY in Q3, to a total of 2.27 million units overall. The portable PC market fell 18.8%, to 1.46 million units, and desktops were down 10,9% to 809,000 units. The Russian market “continue[s] to be negatively … Read more

Samsung Corrects Weak Colour Vision With OLED

At IMID 2014, Samsung Display (SDC) introduced a 14″ OLED panel (rumoured recently, in Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41). Sources list the resolution as ‘WQUXG’, although this resolution does not exist and likely refers to WQUXGA, which is 3840 x 2400 (we suspect that there is an error here – TA). Also at the … Read more

Samsung’s Wireless Tech is WiGig

Recently (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41), we noted that Samsung’s ‘development’ of a 60GHz wireless technology was surprising, given that the company has been involved with the WiGig standard for several years. Samsung’s announcement implied that the technology was developed in-house. Philip Solis, an analyst for ABI Research, has written about the topic in … Read more

TSMC Plans 16nm in 2015

TSMC’s co-CEO, CC Wei, has said that the company will begin volume production of 16nm FinFET process products in Q2’15, or early Q3’15. In tests, these chips have shown that processor speeds can reach as high as 2.3GHz, with power consumption down to 75mW. Wei made the comments at a recent investors’ conference (see Finance … Read more

Graphene Enables High-Modulation Electrochromic Device

Electrochromic displays, which change their state (i.e. opaque to transparent) when exposed to electricity, potentially offer low cost and mechanical flexibility. However, fragile materials and material mismatches with the electrodes have so far hampered the performance of these displays. Now researchers at Turkey’s Bilkent University have used graphene to create an electrochromic device with 55% … Read more