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Links Week Starting 30th May 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!) Why won’t Corsair and Dell just let Apple’s Touch Bar die already? ASUS PA27DCE: New 4K OLED display for creatives Samsung … Read more

Emerging Trends for Next Gen IT Displays at DisplayWeek 2022

The display Industry showcased innovations for next generation displays at the 60th anniversary of the SID Display Week conference in May (San Jose, CA). It was really exciting to attend in-person after three years. The pandemic has changed the industry’s dynamics. Display revenue surged to record levels due to strong demand from WFH and LFH … Read more

AUO, HannStar Display capacity expansion delayed

What They Say Digitimes reported that AUO has slowed down its planned capacity expansion at its LTPS LCD fab in Kunshan, China. It had been looking to boost capacity from 27-28K substrates/month to 36K and possibly up to 45K later. The lockdown has caused delays in equipment installation. The firm is still continuing with plans … Read more

Counterpoint Research: Foldable Smartphone Volume at 1.5 mn Units in Q1 2022, up 111.2% YoY

Despite a weak economic climate, the global foldable smartphone market volume managed to grow 111.2% YoY to 1.5 million units in Q1 2022, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Global Foldable Smartphone Tracker. This shipment growth was largely driven by the sales growth of Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3, which … Read more

SmallHD Launches Action 5 Touchscreen Monitor

SmallHD has announced the launch of the Action 5 Monitor, a lightweight, 5-inch video monitor with exceptional brightness and ActionOS, a streamlined, version of SmallHD’s industry-leading PageOS 4 software toolset. “The Action 5 is the perfect on-ramp into the SmallHD ecosystem of monitors; it offers a simplified user interface, daylight-viewable display, and a lightweight form … Read more

A Cut-Away View of MiniLEDs

All we analysts love a teardown. It’s great to see how things are put together in real detail. It’s the modern equivalent of the ‘cut-away view’ that I loved as a youngster. At Display Week, I saw what I thought to be a ‘teardown on steroids’. I met with Eric Virey of MT2 Strategies LLC … Read more

Samsung Electronics Celebrates the Grand Opening of Virtual Production Stage Powered by The Wall in Partnership with CJ ENM

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. celebrates the grand opening of a virtual production stage in collaboration with leading entertainment company in Korea, CJ ENM. The studio’s real-time virtual experience is powered by connected cameras and Samsung’s cutting-edge Micro LED technology, The Wall (Model Name: IWA). The partnership, first announced in July 2021, leverages the customisable, modular … Read more

Improving Perovskite-Based LEDs Using Quantum Confinement

A team of researchers having affiliations with a number of institutions and led by Yu Fu of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, (Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong) are developing a novel technique to fabricate perovskite-based LEDs (PeLEDs) using a technique called quantum confinement. To … Read more

Researchers develop large-area efficient perovskite LEDs

What They Say Researchers at Seoul National University have developed perovskite LEDs that can be used to make extremely large pixels. The team said that it has made PeLEDs with an EQE of 22.5% and yet with a pixel size of 102mm². The team used colloidal perovskite nanocrystals with a size of several nanometers. In … Read more

What Displays Have to Do to Bring AR Superpowers

One of my vices is trying to play musical instruments and a lot of musicians suffer from ‘option paralysis’. That is to say, when presented with the infinite flexibility of DSP-based digital options, they freeze and drop back to simple analogue equipment, with fewer options. Facing the need to write today’s Display Daily, with the … Read more

Vivitek Brings New Light to the DLP Laser Projector Market with the DU4871Z

For creating events to remember and meetings with lasting impact, Vivitek – a leading provider of visual presentation and collaboration solutions – has announced the latest addition to its range of DLP Laser Projectors – the DU4871Z. A compact, high brightness laser projector with excellent image quality and a large projection size, the DU4871Z combines … Read more

TriLite and Dispelix to create AR glasses projection display

What They Say Trilite of Austria has combined with Dispelix of Finland to optimise the Trilite laser beam scanning (LBS) projector with the Dispelix waveguide. The Trixel 3 projector is said to be the smallest LBS device in the world at less than 1cm³ and weight of <1.5 gms. The use of an LBS avoids … Read more