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Yesterday, DSCC’s Bob O’Brien published a blog article that revealed that Samsung has told all its business groups to suspend purchases and control their inventory status. Samsung has informed flat panel display makers in smartphone and TV markets that panel purchases will be halted. As Samsung makes more TVs and smartphones than anybody else, that’s … Read more
What They Say Meta has been talking about what its Reality Labs division is working on. The projects are: “Butterscotch” is a ‘near retina’ display with 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye, but just about 55 pixels per degree and a 55° FOV (compared with around 110° on Quest 2) ‘Starburst’ can support 20K nits … Read more
What They Say Reuters reports that Tencent Holdings (China’s most valuable tech company) has formed a business unit to address the opportunity for XR and the metaverse in software and hardware. It was formed earlier this year, but was kept secret. It is expected to eventually have over 300 staff. Separately, Reuters said, the firm … Read more
What They Say Maeil Business News of Korea reports that the Korean Supreme court has upheld an appeal by five employees of Samsung Display and an LG partner against a conviction over stealing secrets related to OLED encapsulation. The external supplier was alleged to have passed information to SDC on LG Display’s technology. The paper … Read more
What They Say The Elec reported that BOE has passed samples to Apple for evaluation as a supplier for the expected iPhone 14 and hopes to get approval ‘within the month’. If the go ahead is given, production would start in July and August. That is likely to be a couple of weeks behind existing … Read more
At the SID/DSCC Business Conference, Corning’s Han Yim explained how the company continues to look for ways to exploit the properties of its glass in LCDs and OLEDs. In particular, he highlighted the use of a glass diffuser in an LCD to reduce the number of LEDs needed in a miniLED BLU. The use of … Read more
What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung has as many as 50 million smartphones in distributor stocks with much of the inventory in the mid-tier Galaxy A series. That would represent 18% of the company’s expected 2022 sales of around 270 million (or 9.36 weeks equivalent). The report said that manufacturing dropped from around … Read more
Samsung Electronics announced the global launch of ViewFinity S8 (Model Name: S80PB), a high resolution monitor specialized for creative professionals including content creators, graphic designers and more. ViewFinity, a portmanteau of “View” and “Infinity” is the new name for Samsung’s high resolution monitor lineup, meaning ‘The Value of Infinite Viewing Experience’, and showcases Samsung’s ambition … Read more
Four television stations serving the San Antonio market began broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, a revolutionary new digital broadcast technology. This launch includes KABB (FOX), WOAI-TV (NBC), KMYS (DABL) and KCWX (MyNet). Based on the same fundamental technology as the Internet and digital apps, NEXTGEN TV can support a wide range of features that are currently … Read more
What They Say TFT Central got an update on AUO’s panel roadmap and suggested (behind a paywall) that there would be new 1080P TN/Film panel for gaming with 540Hz refresh and set for release in Q1 2023. Response time is quoted at “<3ms G2G” and also “2ms on/off”. It will support HDR1000 using a 96 … Read more
Quantum Science Ltd (QS), the leading British quantum dot (QD) developer, is delighted to announce that it has signed a distribution agreement with Nishimra Chemitech Co., Ltd (NYS), the foremost Japanese semiconductor, chemicals, and equipment materials distributor. QS has licensed NYS to use, market, and sell its world-leading INFIQ® infrared quantum dots to customers in … 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!) 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
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