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Links Week Ending 9th 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 end of this week. There are a lot as I was so busy with IFA this week! A hat tip to my old friend Alfred Poor (you may know him from SIDs past … Read more

Links Week Ending 16th 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 end of this week. There are a lot again as I was busy with IBC this week! Well at least artists will still need to be human… (AI + Photoshop) hat-tip to Benedict … Read more

Advanced TV Market Growth Slowed in Q2’22

What They Say DSCC published its latest Advanced TV report that, unsurprisingly, found that the combination of macroeconomic and geopolitical events and higher prices for OLED TVs led to a dramatic slowdown in growth for the Advanced TV market. Advanced TV shipments and revenues declined on a Y/Y basis in Europe, and partly as a … Read more

Tesla presents QLED TVs at IFA

What They Say Intriguingly, a company at IFA called Tesla was showing, among other things, Tesla TVs. However, there is nothing connected to Elon Musk here – rather the brand is licensed for a range of products. What We Think The Tesla name came from businesses that were based on technology and research from Nicolas … Read more

Add-in Board Unit Sales Experience a Significant Correction from Q1, Yet Still See Growth Year Over Year

According to a new research report from the analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, unit shipments in the add-in board (AIB) market decreased by -22.6% in Q2’22 from last quarter yet saw a 2.4% year-over-year increase. Meanwhile, Nvidia increased its market share by over 3% in the quarter. More than $5.5 billion AIBs shipped in the … Read more

Quo Vadis, IFA?

I first came to IFA, the International Funkaustellung (literally international Radio Show) 25 years ago. Most shows follow an arc of lifetime (like football managers) – building up, succeeding, then fading and dying or moving on. So what about IFA? The show was established nearly 100 years ago, so it’s a bit tricky to comment … Read more

Samsung Display to manufacture single stack OLED first in Gen 8 line

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung plans to first make single stack rather than tandem OLEDs on the G8 line that it has just decided to build for IT applications. Samsung Display’s co-project to develop a full-cut, vertical deposition machine optimized for a Gen 8 line with Japan’s Ulvac had been aimed at … Read more

Middle East & Africa Personal Computing Devices Market to Decline in Q3 2022, But PC Shipments Remain Stronger than Pre-Pandemic Levels

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, is expected to decline 16.1% year on year in unit terms for the third quarter of 2022 (Q3 2022), according to industry analysis conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC). The global technology research and … Read more