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What They Say FlatPanelsHD published Samsung’s 2022 TV pricing. Some of the sets are up and some down. The file with the details is here. Samsung_Prices.xlsx What We Think To try to get a better sense of the changes, we put the pricing into a single table and gave some colour coding to get a … Read more
Worldwide smartphone sales grew 6% in 2021, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales rebounded in the first half of 2021, following a 12.5% decline in 2020. Previous year’s lower smartphone sales because of COVID-19 and the bounce back to growth in first half of 2021 helped propel the market to growth. However, component shortages and … Read more
What They Say Digitimes reported that PetaRay is a new optics engine developer that claims to have AR light field technology designed to resolve vergence/accomodation conflict (VAC) issues. PetaRay said its optical engine for near-eye displays is based on an innovative light field technology that reproduces light rays of 3D virtual objects and projects them … Read more
Helio Display Materials, the first joint spin-out from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, has raised $4.75m of Series A finance in a round led by Longwall Venture Partners and BGF. The investment is driving a significant expansion of Helio’s team and a move to custom-built labs at the Wood Centre for Innovation in Oxford. Simon Jones, … Read more
Advanced display manufacturer Innolux had been searching for different haptic solutions for its touch displays to enrich the user experience. Until the company engaged with Zytronic’s Taiwanese representative Chris Su, the Innolux engineering team had yet to achieve a suitable tactile solution for their rugged touch displays designed for self-service kiosks and other public displays. … Read more
What They Say Panasonic has a new 3-chip DLP projector that is claimed to be the smallest and lightest unit of this class with 20,000 Ansi lumens of output. The PT-RQ25K is said to be 40% smaller and 35% lighter than its predecessor and weighs 35kg. I The unit uses WUXGA 1920 x 1200 DLP … Read more
What They Say Quoting Futuresource Consulting as a source, AV Interactive has reported that, excluding China, Promethean’s ActivPanel Interactive FPD (IFPD) has been number one globally since 2018 and is number one individually in the US, the UK and Ireland and German markets. The firm is quoted as the top brand in iFPDs since 2018, … Read more
What They Say Aixtron reported that a Chinese company, HC Semitek, has ordered AIX 2800G4-TM (IC2) and AIX G5+ C MOCVD systems to make microLEDs on 8″ x 6″ (203 x 152mm) substrates. The machines were shipped in Q4/2021, Aixtron said. Aixtron said that the machines “features a wafer-level control of the film surface temperature … Read more
What They Say At MWC 2022, Huawei has launched a new E Ink-based eReader, the MatePad Paper. It has a 10.3″ 1872 x 1404 (227 ppi) touch enabled display. The reader has a USB-C port, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage and runs Harmony OS2. The device can be used with the firm’s M-Pencil … Read more
According to UBI Research’s “1Q22 Small OLED Display Market Track” Small OLED Display (10-inches or smaller watch, smartphone, foldable phone, etc.) shipment in 2021 was 746 million, a 34.4% increase from the previous year’s 555 million. The reason for the increase in shipments compared to 2020 can be attributed to the increased sales of iPhone … Read more
What They Say HP put out its quarterly result for its first fiscal quarter. Revenue was up by 8.8% from a year ago to $17 billion. Margins were down slightly from last year to 8.0% from 8.4% and earnigns were $1.1 billion. Personal systems were up 15% to $12.2 billion with strong commercial growth (+26%) … Read more
What They Say Counterpoint Research posted a blog that highlighted the value of the smartphone market, which grew to be $448 billion in 2021, up 7% year on year in Q4. Apple’s market revenues were $196 billion (43.7%). As GfK reported recently, ASPs rose 12% to reach $322 based on increased penetration of 5G sets. … Read more
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