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What They Say Nikkei reports that Nintendo expects to sell around 10% fewer of its Switch consoles this year compared to fiscal 2021, so it expects a total around 20 million. Sales peaked in fiscal 2020 at 28.83 million. This is because of supply chain issues as there is still strong demand and Nikkei reports … Read more
What They Say DSCC reported that it has seen a number of fab expansion projects delayed and a few cancelled. The firm has revised its forecast for 2023 spending down 57% to $5.3 billion. Most of the drop will be in LCD which will drop 70% to $1.9 billion and OLEDs down to $3.4 billion. … Read more
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) announced the first publicly open standard for front-of-screen performance of variable refresh rate displays. The VESA Adaptive-Sync Display Compliance Test Specification (Adaptive-Sync Display CTS) provides for a comprehensive and rigorous set of more than 50 test criteria, an automated testing methodology and performance mandates for PC monitors and laptops … Read more
What They Say Invidis said that Google would be (re-)entering the digital signage market at ISE next week with a dedicated digital signage and kiosk platform. Details will be released at the event when Invidis will be interviewing the firm. What We Think It’s not clear to me how much this is a launch when … Read more
What They Say An apparent leak from China shows how Apple’s iPhone 14 displays may line up with the Pro models using ‘hole and pill’ configurations for the camera and sensors rather than a notch. The smaller models are 6.1″ and the larger is 6.7″. although the Pro models are calculated to have a slightly … Read more
What They Say Sony has posted a video showing its development of Holographic Optical Elements in R&D. The material can be used to show apparently 3D images when illuminated by a projector. The firm is showing the device at Siggraph which is said to have reached 3,000 cd/m² of luminance and over 85% transparency using … Read more
What They Say Some sad news this morning. Electrosonic founder Bob Simpson has died at the age of 82. Electrosonic said: To complement his massive contributions to Electrosonic, Bob was an industry figure, publishing several books including; ‘Videowalls – The Book of the Big Electronic Image’ and ‘Lighting Control – Technology and Applications as well … Read more
What They Say Among the rush of quarterly market data on Q1, Strategy Analytics (SA) released its data on the tablet market, globally. A surprise was that Apple actually grew from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022 with shipments of 15.8 million and 39% market share. Still it was down 6% year on year from Q1 … 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. AOC: New gaming display with 280 Hz and 1 ms G2G Superconducting Breakthrough May Change the Chip Industry Dramatically (eventually!) Strand Consult calls on Eutelsat to stop supporting … Read more
What They Say GSMArena had a look at the Huawei Mate Pad which is a 10.3″ device using a bluetooth pen-supporting Carta HD E Ink display with 1872 x 1404 resolution (227ppi). It is based on HarmonyOS 2.0, optimised for the device. Battery life is long and there is 22.5W fast charger that can give … Read more
What They Say Quoting the Korean IT Home as source, Patently Apple reported that Samsung Display’s CEO, Joo-Sun Choi has met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and asked him not to reduce the firm’s commitment to buy OLEDs. From an initial plan for 220 million iPhones in 2022, with 160 million from Samsung, Apple is … Read more
Global smartphone shipments showed a negative growth of 12.9% compared to the same period last year according to Omdia’s Global Smartphone shipment preliminary result 1Q22 report. The report also revealed that in the first quarter, smartphone shipments recorded 308.0 million units and that the negative growth trend has been the case for the last three … Read more
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