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Links Week Starting 20th June 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. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) U.S. lawmakers back push to force iPhone to switch to USB-C TSMC Reveals 2nm Node: 30% More Performance by 2025 BenQ … Read more

ViewSonic’s New X1 & X2 LED Projectors Easily Turn Your Home into an Entertainment Space

“As an innovator and leader in LED technology, we are elevating the home entertainment experience with our new LED projector solutions. With enhanced brightness of 3,100 LED Lumens, the X1 and X2 not only deliver brighter and clearer images in any environment but offer more eco-friendliness compared to lamp-based projectors,” said Dean Tsai, General Manager … Read more

BCDTEK to Build 300mm MicroOLED Fab

What They Say OLEDInfo reports that a Chinese OLED microdisplay developer, BCDTEK, is building a new fab in Huainan, China with a monthly capacity of 20K 300mm substrates per month. The company is expected to invest close to $1 billion with money raised from China Micro Semiconductor and Shanghai Wusheng Electronics. The firm is also … Read more

APS Holdings forming ultra high resolution FMM research line

What They Say The Elec reports that APS Holdings in Korea is developing a facility for ultra high resolution fine metal mask (FMM) OLED manufacturing in Chonan. Resolution could get as high as 3,000ppi. The firm is said to be planning to use laser processes, rather than wet etching. The firm is part of a … Read more

eMagin Awarded $2.5 Million U.S. Army Contract for OLED Microdisplay Prototype Project

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eMagin Corporation, a leader in the development, design and manufacture of high-resolution OLED microdisplays for AR/VR and other near-eye imaging products, announced it has been awarded a $2.5 million contract from the U.S. Army for a high-brightness, full-color OLED microdisplay prototype project, including manufacturing process technologies. The prototype will be used in AR systems that … Read more

Bitmovin Provides a Guide to HDR

What They Say Hat-tip to Jon Peddie for pointing us to a “Guide to HDR’ available from Bitmovin (registration required). If you are new to HDR, it’s a useful reference to the different formats, gamuts and EOTFs as well as detailing the support for different formats in some TVs, consoles and dongles. The company, of … Read more

Europe Smartphone Market Drops 12% YoY in Q1 2022; Region Braces for Further Challenges Ahead

The European smartphone market declined by 12% year-on-year in Q1 2022, according to the latest research from Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor service, registering the lowest first quarter shipments for nearly a decade. The decline was caused by a number of factors, including ongoing component shortages, COVID-19 related lockdowns in China, deteriorating economic conditions and the … Read more

LCD TV Panel Prices Fall to New Low, Panel Production Capacity Cut in 3Q22, Says TrendForce

According to TrendForce, LCD TV panel quotations bore the brunt of continuous downgrades in the purchase volume of TV brands and pricing for most panel sizes have fallen to record lows. Recently, it was announced that the 32-inch and 43-inch panels fell by approximately US$5~US$6 in early June, 55-inch panels fell approximately US$7, and 65-inch … Read more

LG Display invests $1bn in Vietnam facility

What They Say The Aju Business Daily reports that LG Display is raising $1.0 billion to expand its OLED module assembly facilities at its plant in Hai Phong, Vietnam. Despite difficult geopolitical and macroeconomic issues, the firm said that banks such as ANZ Bank, HSBC, Citi Bank, and Spain’s Caixa Bank will extend loans at … Read more

LGD Adds LG Chem as Deuterium Supplier – Samsung to Boost Foldables

What They Say The Korean ET News reports that after initially getting supplies of ‘deuterium blue’ from DuPont of the US, LG Display is now also getting supplies from LG Chem for its OLED.EX panels which have higher brightness and longer lifetime. The report said that LG Chem recorded sales of ?45.5 billion ($35 million) … Read more