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What They Say Samsung has started taking pre-orders for a new 32″ UltraHD smart monitor, the M8. (Samsung Electronics Announces M8, the New and Stylish Smart Monitor Series). The monitor supports streaming video through Wi-fi, has an integrated camera with face tracking and auto-zoom and can connect to a mobile device and can be used … Read more
Last week I reported on the ‘big picture’ view of what I learned at BETT in London last week. Today I’ll add some detail on the products and technology that I saw. ViewSonic updated me on its full range of 43″ to 98″ interactive flat panels which are nearly all sold with infrared sensors, as … Read more
What They Say The Reality Check from The Information reported that at the recent Game Developers’ Conference, software engine developer Unity went into some detail about the improvements that dynamic foveated rendering could make to the performance of Sony’s forthcoming PlayStation VR2 headset. In a demo it showed a 14% improvement in frame rendering time … Read more
What They Say Huawei saw its revenue drop by 28.5% in 2021 to $99.9 billion with consumer sales (including smartphones) down 50%. Wearables were actually up by 30% along with smart speakers, and, bizarrely it seemed to us, its profit went up 76% to $17.8 billion. HarmonyOS was used in over 220 million Huawei devices … Read more
What They Say Nikkei Asia reported that Apple has cut back its forecast for the iPhone SE production in Q2 2022 by around two to three million units as it sees markets reacting to world events, especially the war in Ukraine which it expects to affect purchases because of increasing fuel and food prices. Analyst … Read more
What They Say DSCC published a forecast from its TV set research partner, DiScien Consulting that forecast that highlights that its forecast for global TVs this year will be reduced by 4.6 million units, with 3.6 million of those sets directly affected in the Russian and Ukranian markets and 1.0 million reducing because of the … Read more
What They Say DSCC published extracts from its Advanced IT Display Market report on monitors (after tablets last week) and forecast 241% growth in the market for OLED and miniLED devices. Although both grew, in 2021, panel procurement for MiniLED models outpaced OLED models by a ~10:1 ratio. MiniLED monitors accounted for a 91% share … Read more
The 2022 SID/DSCC Business Conference at DisplayWeek, sponsored by Applied Materials, Corning, GE and Amorphyx will feature over 35 different talks on all aspects of the display industry. One of five application-oriented sessions of the conference will address the market for TVs and TV displays, which is so critical for the supply/demand balance of the … Read more
What They Say Omdia reported its Q4 2021 figures for the semiconductor business showing that Intel just, barely, squeezed past Samsung Electronics for the year as a whole although Samsung was in top spot in Q4 with $19.995 billion compared to 19.976 billion (which is probably within the ‘margin of error’. While Intel was almost … Read more
The global PC monitor market continued its quarterly decline in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21) with unit shipments shrinking 5.2% compared to the same quarter in 2020. Despite a challenging second half of the year, the market still exceeded expectations and ended 2021 with a 5.0% year-over-year growth rate, according to the International Data … Read more
What They Say Hat tip to Dave Haynes at sixteen-nine.net for spotting a release from Futuresource that reported that while projection grew by 0.2% year on year in 2021, flat panel commercial displays grew 20.1%. The analyst said that Projector sales are still 30% lower than before the pandemic and mainstream B2B and short throw … Read more
MPEG LA announced that enforcement actions have been brought in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Samsung Electronics GmbHfor infringement of patents in MPEG LA’s HEVC Patent Portfolio License. The patents are essential to the HEVC (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) digital video coding standard used in products that encode and decode video for … Read more
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