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What They Say DSCC published a blog post that set out the results from its financial health report on the display supply chain (registration required). Despite the recent comments about dramatically declining LCD prices, Q1 was still a profitable quarter overall for panel makers. Looking at the 13 publicly traded panel makers, total revenues decreased … Read more
Foldable smartphone shipments rose 571% Y/Y in Q1’22 to 2.22M. It was the 3rd best quarter to date for the rapidly growing category, but was down 47% Q/Q from the record high of 4.2M units in Q4’21. Samsung continued to dominate the category, but its share fell to 74% with Huawei’s share rising to 20%. … Read more
What They Say Vewd and AirConsole, a cloud-based video gaming console, announced a deal to integrate the console into the Vewd Android- and Linux-based platforms for pay TV, smart TVs and n-vehicle infotainment systems. The AirConsole technology is reported to have been deployed by Evoca, a NextGen TV service in the U.S. “The casual gaming … Read more
ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of visual solutions, introduces the ID2456 Touch Display, designed to optimize communication and collaboration. The ViewSonic® ID2456 touch display is a multifunctional 24-inch display with projected capacitive [PCAP] touch and Palm Rejection technologies and works with Microsoft Pen Protocol [MPP2.0] active pens to deliver pinpoint accuracy when writing or … Read more
In education, poor [technology] implementation from the very outset of a project spirals our products towards the landfill of technological promise. In last month’s article, “Avoiding the Landfill, Part II: Great Beginnings” we zeroed in on strategies that any firm can employ, up front, “to guarantee greater implementation success by educators—and thus secure a more … Read more
What They Say A group at Saarland University is using thin silicon films to give haptic feedback to touch displays. The 50 micron film can change shape to simulate a button or key on a surface. The film could also be incorporated into gloves to allow a system to know how hands and fingers are … Read more
In the first four months of the year, the share of smart TVs measured against the total TV market continued to rise. According to GfK SE, slightly more than 1.6 million TV sets were sold in Germany during this period. Almost all of these sets are smart TVs (1.6 million), which enable the use of … Read more
What They Say There’s no secret that phosphorescent blue is coming to OLED – RGB or WOLED and QD OLED displays. At an event in Korea following SID, Kyung Hee University professor Kwon Jang-hyuk gave some interesting details about Samsung’s architecture for QD OLED. The current Samsung architecture is a four layer tandem structure, with … Read more
At Display Week, I had the chance to moderate the CEO Forum and the panel included Nikhil Balram of Mojo Vision who told me that he had joined the firm partly to help it exploit the microLED technology that it has developed for its AR contact lenses. Balram is a very experienced display and semiconductor … 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 middle and end of this week. Samsung Display to fully exit from LCD TV panel business in June (as expected) Netflix closes up in Russia Philips 27E1N5900E: new 4K IPS monitor with USB-C … Read more
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, experienced a slight year-on-year decline of 1.5% in the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest industry analysis conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC). The global technology research and consulting firm’s newly updated … Read more
What They Say Digitimes interviewed Andrew Beck, director of Worldwide Commercial Operations at Corning’s Display business unit and he confirmed the view, expressed at the SID Display Week Business Conference by Corning, that LCD will continue to dominate display panel sales. After covering the challenges from lockdowns and geo-political issues, Beck said that “every manufacturer … Read more
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