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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

Smartphone investors bet $200mn on making something out of Nothing

What They Say A smartphone start-up, Nothing, led by an executive Carl Pei, who was a founder of OnePlus, has raised more than $200 million to launch its first smartphone which will be officially launched next month. The back of the smartphone is transparent, showing a wireless recharging coil. Backers include Alphabet’s venture capital arm, … Read more

Workstation Market Tempers Growth in Q1’22, With More Moderation Likely in the Offing

As part of its ongoing research on the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its JPR Workstation Report Market Quarterly for Q1’22. Q1’22 workstation market results appear to finally show the beginning of the end for the market’s period of pandemic-fueled, overly exuberant sales. With a first-quarter year-over-year (YoY) growth rate of 24%, … Read more

AGON by AOC Presents MiniLED Ultrawide Gaming Display AGON PRO AG344UXM with 170 Hz

AGON by AOC – one of the world’s leading gaming monitor1 and IT accessories brands – presents the AGON PRO AG344UXM, a 34″ (86.4 cm) ultrawide monitor with breath-taking credentials: a MiniLED backlight with 1152 dimming zones to achieve an eye-catching high-level DisplayHDR 1000, 170 Hz refresh rate, 1 ms GtG response time for smooth … Read more

Sigmaintell Covers Mobiles & Tablets

What They Say After reporting on its TV panel prices yesterday (Sigmaintell Research?TV Panel Price Trends in Jun.2022 (The early June edition)) and now we have its data on smartphone and tablet panel prices. The data covers LCDs and sees small declines in each category this month. Amorphous LCD panels are declining continuously because of … Read more

Pixelworks Bring Magic to Mobile – The X7 mobile visual processor

Since the turn of the century, video frame interpolation systems have used motion compensation (MC) and Motion estimation (ME) systems. However, such solutions are not power-efficient and can introduce interpolation errors. Pixelworks, a video alchemist skunk-works in San Jose, has been quietly developing a new, back-end mobile processor that solved those problems for movies; and … Read more