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What They Say The Verge reported that Google has discontinued its next Pixelbook notebook and dispersed the team that was developing it, although it confirmed its plans as recently as May and was expected to release this premium Chromebook next year. What We Think I can’t be completely surprised by this. The Chromebook market has … Read more
What They Say Acer reported its financial result for August and highlighted the 15.9% month on month growth to $644 million, rather than the 7.9% decline year on year. The firm said that commercial business (excluding Chromebooks) and desktop PCs were up by 4.4% and 9%, respectively. Businesses beyond the PC and display core businesses … Read more
Although Marek Maciejwski of TCL told me at IFA that he has been surprised by how many 98″ LCD sets it is selling, to people that want the same size image as their projector, but usable in any light conditions, others are still developing new sets and there are new developments and entrants. One of … Read more
What They Say Two separate reports this week suggest that more smartphone handset assembly may be moving to India. Reuters reported analysis from JPMorgan that a quarter of Apple’s iPhone production could be in India by 2025, with 5% of iPhone 14 production moving by the end of this year. Apple has been working with … Read more
What They Say TrendForce said that after a weak year already, the shipment of notebook LCD panels in Q3 2022 will be down 13.4% QoQ to 45.1 million, down from 49.9 million in 2019, the last Q3 before the pandemic. TrendForce further indicates notebook panel shipments came in at 15.6 million units in July, a … Read more
What They Say Hat-tip to Sixteen-Nine.net’s Dave Haynes who spotted data from Omdia’s latest data for the LED video display category, which grew 17.7% year on year although China was up just 4.7%. There has been some easing in factors that were causing trouble such as lockdowns and supply chain delays. There is an increase … Read more
What They Say Another hat-tip to Sixteen-Nine.net for spotting a report that container shipping costs from China to the West Coast of the US have dropped around 60% from January 2022 and are now at around $5,400, while containers to Europe are down to around $9,000, down 60% from January. That’s a long way down … Read more
What They Say DSCC has updated its analysis of the state of the industry now that all the numbers are in for Q2. The great profits of last year have now turned to losses for many. Total revenues decreased by 17% Q/Q and were down by 25% Y/Y at $27.8 billion, down 30% from their … Read more
What They Say DSCC said that as it nears the completion of its latest forecast for its Quarterly Foldable/Rollable Display Shipment and Technology Report, it has reduced its forecast for 2022 foldable smartphone panel shipments by 12% to 17.7 million panels, which still represents strong growth with a 77% increase vs. 10.0 million in 2021. … Read more
As part of its ongoing research pertaining to the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its quarterly JPR Workstation Market Report for Q2’22. Following suit with the prior quarter’s results, Q2’22 again showed continuing moderation in the workstation market’s growth rate. However, a slowing rate should not be inferred as a decline in … Read more
What They Say A sample of Meta’s next VR headset, the Meta Quest Pro, is said to have been left in a hotel room and found by a PC gaming streamer, Ramiro Cardenas. Cardenas’s images and video show a black headset with three front-facing cameras and newly designed controllers without rings. It appears much more … Read more
What They Say Xperi (Xperi and Vestel on a Roll at IFA) announced that it is making a new version of a cloud-managed operator-grade set-top box (STB) OS that integrates payTV with streamed content available as a custom launcher and TV app for Android TV Operator Tier STBs. Its framework can be tailored by operators … Read more
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