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US TV Inflation in Free Fall

What They Say DSCC has published a blog article that highlights the dramatic drop in US TV set pricing in recent months. The article includes the chart (below) that shows the ‘TV sub-index’ which tracks TV prices compared to the overall price index. Prices rose last year for the first time ever, but have fallen … Read more

Growth In Public Display Market Flat In Q2; Chinese Lockdowns Affected Demand: Omdia

What They Say Sixteen-Nine.net reported data from Omdia that showed that there was QoQ growth of 1.1% in public displays. The firm suggests strict COVID lockdown restrictions in China affected the demand for public display products in several sectors, including transportation, retail, and manufacturing. Quoting Omdia, the site said: IFP and touch displays saw their … Read more

Little Impact in Taiwan from Earthquakes

What They Say Taiwan suffered magnitude 6.4 and 6.8 earthquakes yesterday and Trendforce of Taiwan reported on the impact of the events on chips and panels. Chip makers have not been significantly affected, it seems, although some machinery needed re-initialisation. In terms of panels, Innolux and AUO are said to have already had slowed down … Read more

Driven by Digitalization and Sustainable Development, Global E-paper Market Estimated to Reach US$4.7 Billion or 50% YoY in 2022, Says TrendForce

Sep. 19, 2022 —- The global electronic paper (e-paper) industry is on the rise due to digitization trends and ESG sustainable development. Based on e-paper’s power conservation and low carbon advantages, products such as e-paper tablets, electronic shelf labels, and electronic notebooks have quickly penetrated into the consumer and commercial markets. According to TrendForce estimates, … Read more

Links Week Starting 19th September 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week – only a few as I have been busy at IFA. Android TV grows its share in European Smart TV market TCL launches upgraded 2022 6-series miniLED LCD … Read more

LG Display develops high efficiency OLEDoS and color filter structure

What They Say The Elec has more information on LGD’s OLEDonSilicon chip plans. The paper said that the devices will use a thin film encapsulant and colour filter, rather than glass. The colour filter will be just 1.5 microns thick and deposited using ALD first and then adding a silicon nitride layer, while the TFE … Read more

Display Industry to Show Weakness thru H123, Suffers 1st Quarterly Loss in Q222 after 7 Consecutive Profitable Quarters

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Over the past few months the economic conditions for the consumer electronics market have been deteriorating, but there is a start of a normalizing correction in inventories, which had been built up throughout the supply chain over the past two years. Hopefully the inventory corrections will offset the economic deterioration in North America, which is … Read more