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Absen presents new MicroLED displays

What They Say Invidis reported that Absen has had an autumn launch of new LED displays. The Clear Cobalt series is designed for pitches between 0.7mm and 1.2mm. The displays uses flip-chip technology and is reported to have brightness of 1,200 cd/m². Contrast is quoted at 20,000:1. The surface of the display is a deep … Read more

Japan PC, TV shipments continue to decline in October

What They Say Digitimes reported that the ‘stay-at-home’ economy has slowed down in Japan with PC shipments in the country down 39.9% to 468K units in October and TVs down by 13% TO 369k units, based on data from JEITA. The PC drop was the seventh consecutive month, while for TVs it was the fourth. … Read more

Black Friday Frog Kissing

What They Say There are a lot of press releases describing deals in the US on Black Friday. What We Think First, I want to wish all my US readers a very happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday. I mentioned last week that I had seen a lot of adverts for Black Friday. I got fed … Read more

OQMented Adds Funds

What They Say We reported on a strategic deal between Dispelix and OQmented back in June (Dispelix and OQmented Form Strategic Partnership) and a couple of weeks ago, we reported that Dispelix had got new investment AR Waveguide Leader Dispelix Announces $33M Investment. Around the same time, OQmented also reported that it had raised an … Read more

OQmented, Technology Leader in MEMS-Based AR/VR Display and 3D Sensing Solutions, Secures USD 9.3M of Funding

OQmented announced that it extended its seed round and secured an additional USD 9.3 million. New investors IT-Farm, Leblon Capital, and Deeptech-A join a syndicate that includes Vsquared Ventures (Vsquared), Salvia, and Baltic Business Angels, along with several Angel investors. The deep tech startup has raised nearly US$20 million since its 2018 spin-out from the … Read more

Wear OS Share Surges on Samsung’s Highest Quarterly Smartwatch Shipments in Q3 2021

Global smartwatch shipments in the third quarter of this year increased 16% compared to the same period last year, continuing their double-digit growth following the previous quarter, according to Counterpoint Research’s recently published Global Smartwatch Model Tracker. Thanks to the launch of the Galaxy Watch 4 series, Samsung achieved its highest quarterly shipments, narrowing the … Read more

Research: Italians families have 5 screens

What They Say Advance Television reported data from a survey by Auditel-Censis in Italy of over 20K homes that highlighted that in Italy there are around 14.5 million homes (46.6%) with SmartTVs, although only 12.3 million are actually connected. In total there are 119.4 million screens in homes, up 6.2% on two years ago. The … Read more

Samsung Electronics Sold One Million Units of ‘The Frame’ in 2021

Samsung Electronics announced that it has sold more than one million units of ‘The Frame’ this year, making it Samsung’s first single-year million-seller in its Lifestyle TV lineup. Total sales since The Frame’s 2017 launch are expected to exceed two million units by year end, driven by heavy demand in North American and European markets. … Read more

Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law

What They Say The UK government has introduced new legislation, the The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill which has three new rules. easy-to-guess default passwords preloaded on devices are banned. All products now need unique passwords that cannot be reset to factory default customers must be told when they buy a device the minimum … Read more

Optics and Gravel

Last week, I (Bob the editor) wrote a Display Daily on metasurfaces and the ways that new techniques are being used to bring new and quite dramatic changes to optics – and which may have a big impact on the development of AR/VR and projection displays. (Is There Really “No Moore’s Law for Optics”?) The … Read more

Spirited Turnaround for Pro Displays as Forecasts show 27% Market Expansion

What They Say Futuresource Consulting said that what it defines as the professional displays market has recovered with 27% growth after a 15% year on year drop last year. The firm forecast a 2021 value of $36 billion. Matthew Rubin, Senior Market Analyst also forecast the LED market saying: “Our forecasts indicate a CAGR of … Read more