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What They Say Wearables-era.com published an interview with John Fan, CEO of Kopin, looking at developnments in AR/VR. He said that Disruption of markets by new technologies often happen from doing one thing very well, rather than solving ‘everything’ He pointedly avoided commenting on any plans of Apple in AR/VR In reference to Qualcomm’s 5G … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Kuo: only iPhone 14 Pro models to get ‘A16’ chip, standard models to retain A15 In Depth: Chinese Firms Bending Over Backward to Offer Foldable Phones ($$) … Read more
What They Say The Information’s Reality Check reported that Microsoft is “expecting negative feedback from the customer” in its development of a headset, known as IVAS and based on the HoloLens. The article suggested that the issues are related to low light performance and reliability. The project had previously been reported to have been suffering … Read more
Cumulative shipments of foldable smartphones distributed worldwide by the end of 2021 recorded 11.5 million units for the first time since the first foldable smartphone was launched in 2019 according to Omdia‘s 4Q21 smartphone model market tracker. Due to the high price barrier, sales of early foldable smartphones were limited. However, from the second half … Read more
What They Say AUO and Innolux released their results for February. Innolux was down in revenue by 8.6% on January and down 13.4% on last year to $769 million. Large panels were down 15.0% in quantity to 10.55 million, while small/medium panels were down by 10.3% to 20.64 million. AUO was also down on January, … Read more
What They Say DSCC published some data on its blog that looked at displays for ‘advanced’ displays as part of its Advanced IT Display report. The firm said that the Apple 12.9″ iPad Pro has done particularly well with panel shipments of 1.9 million units in Q4 2021, up 90% QoQ and bringing the advanced … Read more
What They Say DSCC’s blog update pointed out a change in its capacity outlook with a switch to a reduction in the outlook after six quarters of increasing capacity forecasts after delays and cancellations based on worsening market conditions for panel revenues. The capacity is now expected to rise by 4.8 CAGR from 2021 to … Read more
What They Say The Motion Picture Association of America published a report about the market in 2021. The combined global theatrical and home/mobile entertainment market reached $99.7 billion, a growth of 24% since 2020, but more importantly, surpassing the pre-pandemic 2019 value. Add in pay TV, and the combined global theatrical and home entertainment market … Read more
Breda University of Applied Sciences will host the 2022 edition of the Virtual Productions Gathering. This conference highlights the use of games technology for film production, and some world-renowned speakers will share their knowledge and experience. ROE Visual will show the qualities of LED in virtual production. Following its first edition in 2021, Breda University … Read more
A story published March 9 at Forbes illustrates how the video streaming landscape continues to shift dramatically. What started out largely as a science experiment 18 years ago with YouTube has now become the dominant platform for the distribution and consumption of movies and television shows in the US. It’s upended the cable TV industry, … Read more
As part of its ongoing research on the workstation market, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its JPR Workstation Report Market Quarterly for Q4’21. There will be a quarter that ends the workstation market’s historically high growth, but the fourth quarter of 2021 wasn’t it. Yet again, quarterly growth far outpaced levels any would justifiably … Read more
What They Say The Korea Bizwire said that arguments about pricing are continuing to delay the introduction by Samsung Electronics of TVs based on Samsung Display’s QD-OLED technology. The site said that the VD division of Samsung that makes TVs wants pricing the same as WOLEDs from LG Display. SDC is said to be rejecting … Read more
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