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What They Say IBC released its visitor numbers at 37,071 from 170 countries and said that there were more than 1,000 exhibitors. The number was 34% down on the 2019 total of 56,390. What We Think I was only at IBC for a single shorter day, as it was the last, but I got round … Read more
What They Say A hat-tip to Alfred Poor, publisher of Health Tech Insider for pointing me to an article about the use of ink-jet printing to create Bragg mirrors. The technology has been developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) which has been able to make the reflectors without the use of vacuum deposition. … Read more
What They Say Chris Chinnock of Insight Media (and sometime Display Daily contributor) has written a white paper on the development of ‘dynamic pixel tuning’ developed by Porotech and which enables R,G and B pixels to be created using a single epitaxy process, controlling the colour by the current density (and the luminance by PWM). … Read more
What They Say Bloomberg reported that the US army is taking delivery of the first batch of the IVAS Hololens-based headsets. Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Douglas Bush has “cleared the Army to begin accepting” some of the 5,000 sets of goggles, spokesman Jamal Beck said in a statement, after tests. Based on the test results … Read more
What They Say Various reviewers have been looking at the new Corsair flexible curved/flat monitor that was launched recently (Curved Monitor? Certainly! How Much Would You Like?). PC Gamer liked the 45″ 3440 x 1440 (21:9) display a lot, partly for the flexibility (literally) and partly because of the OLED image quality and fast response. … Read more
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
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