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Keynote Session Summary – Bad Year for Display Financials, But Display Performance Continues to Improve

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What They Say In a blog article (registration required), Ross Young of DSCC picked out some highlights of his keynote talk at the SID/DSCC Business Conference of Display Week. (The Tragedy of the LCD Commons) In the article he covers the overall supply demand situation OLED TV (DSCC is forecasting growth although it hasn’t included … Read more

Kopin Receives Additional $4.8 Million Order for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program

Kopin Corporation, a leading provider of high-resolution microdisplays for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), announced it has received an approximately $4.8 million follow-on order of its high-brightness AMLCD microdisplay for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. With the F-35 scheduled for production through 2030, Kopin expects additional orders over the life of the … Read more

SID’s 60th Anniversary – Optimism in the Face of Falling Panel Prices, Demand and Profitability (Part 1)

Ross Young, CEO of DSCC started the Business Conference with a message that the last two years saw record breaking revenues, shipments and profits, but warned that it would take four years before the industry returned to 2021 performance. The good news is that for the first time ever, there are two strong technologies and … Read more

Tianma Investing in New G8.6 Production Line

Tianma, a leading global manufacturer of flat panel displays, will be constructing a new G8.6 Panel Production Line (“TM19”) in Xiamen, Fujian, China. With an investment of RMB 33 Billion ($5.2B), the new plant is expected to produce 120k sheets per month using a-Si technologies. Construction will begin in the 2nd half of 2022, and … Read more

SiliconCore Now Supplying Modules as well as Full Displays

What They Say Silicon Core was at Display Week with some great looking video walls, as usual, but also has a new encapsulated version that is ideal for a number of applications including virtual production, where you may need some images from below to create realistic reflections (reflections are very hard to create in post … Read more

Vizio Result – CEO Proud of Declining Revenue and Swing from Profit to Loss….

What They Say Vizio announced its result for Q1 with revenue down from $505.7 million to $485.5 million. The net profit of $3.4 million last year turned into a net loss of $11 million this time. William Wang, CEO of Vizio, said: “I am extremely proud of our exceptional first quarter results.” Platform+ service revenues … Read more

Vuzix’s M400 Smart Glasses are now “ISO class 2 clean room” certified.

What They Say Vuzix said that its M400 Smart Glasses are now “ISO class 2 clean room” certified. That means the AR glasses have been approved for use in numerous sterile workplaces such as in pharmaceuticals, medicine, optics, aerospace, solar and defence. The big advantage of this is that technicians outside clean rooms will be … Read more

3K Panels from JDI & Innolux

What They Say In our Display Week coverage, a couple of items slipped through our net. Innolux had a 3240 x 3240 resolution LCD with 2016 ppi, so with a 2.27″ diagonal. The colour coverage is 85% of NTSC (whatever that means!) and with GtG response time of 5ms. The Innolux display is said to … Read more