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What They Say By complete coincidence (honestly!), after I wrote about the investment in Nanosys over recent years last Friday (David Clears the First Hurdle), I got notice today that the firm has raised an additional $50 million that will enable the firm to accelerate its growth in QDs, microLEDs and ELQDs. Investors included Fortress … Read more
Nanosys, the industry innovator and leading supplier of quantum dot and microLED technologies for advanced displays, announced that it has raised more than $50 million in Series B equity and debt financing. The initial close of this round includes as new investors funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group, Centerbridge Partners and Kilonova Capital. … Read more
What They Say Intel & Mediatek said that they had formed a partnership for Mediatek’s chips to be made by Intel’s Foundry Services business. The chips will be made for ‘a range of smart edge devices’. Mediatek said that it sells more than two billion chips per year. It also highlighted that the deal gives … Read more
Intel and MediaTek announced a strategic partnership to manufacture chips using Intel Foundry Services’ (IFS) advanced process technologies. The agreement is designed to help MediaTek build a more balanced, resilient supply chain through the addition of a new foundry partner with significant capacity in the United States and Europe. MediaTek plans to use Intel process … Read more
What They Say Aixteen-Nine.net found a LinkedIn video that shows the use of LEDs on architectural glass, that Eclipse Digital Media calls ‘Photoelectric Glass LED’. Eclipse is working with Nexnovo of China. The LEDs are down to 10mm pitch, have output of up to 3,000 cd/m² and are IP65 rated. The video shows how modules … Read more
Pixelworks, Inc., the developer of the award-winning TrueCut Motion™ platform, announced that it is working with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment on multiple motion picture titles. “We’re bringing AVATAR and TITANIC back to the big screen, looking better in every way,” said James Cameron. “We will be presenting both films in 4K with high dynamic range … Read more
Leading AR company Rokid has taken advantage of Amazon Prime Day deals to sell its consumer-grade AR glasses, the Rokid Air resulting in a push into the North American market. With the Prime Day event over, Rokid is aiming to promote their Rokid Air to a wider range of consumers. The Rokid Air are the … Read more
What They Say ROE Visual said in an email to us that it will have a new Ruby LED panel, the 1.9BV2, for ‘broadcast grade’ applications that will be shown at IBC in September. It will be using the panel in its Ghostframe demonstrations which exploits its high frame rate. Roelof Bouwman, General Manager, Roe … Read more
Quantum Dot display technology is continuously evolving with new processes, new materials and new product offerings that havw enabled it to have higher market share in the TV market. Macroeconomic uncertainties, war in the Ukraine and high inflation; all are impacting TV demand resulting in drastic panel price reductions, cut in fab utilization rates and … Read more
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. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) It’s time to leave the leap second in the past (Meta argues the case – no displays, but it’s interesting!) Meeting … Read more
Jade Bird Display Limited (Shanghai, China) or JBD has announced that the company is developing a single chip, native full color microLED display. The new microdisplay is targeted for applications that include augmented reality glasses. Most available information on the new microLED was found in a recent company press release. Drawing upon this press release … Read more
What They Say Pandaily said that Xiaomi has got patents for magnetic attachment of AR components in smartglasses allowing the glasses to be used as regular spectacles. The company released an ‘exploratory version’ of the glasses that used a microLED projector (roughly the size of a grain of rice, the article says) and optical waveguides. … Read more
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