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What They Say Sigmaintell has reported that smartphone panel shipments dropped 6.5% year on year to 475 million in Q3, although YTD volumes are up 7.9% to 1.425 billion. OLED has boomed based on Apple’s adoption of the technology and in Q3 were 170 million, up 39.2% year on year, taking 35.1% of the market, … Read more
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
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
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
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 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
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
What They Say Roku has had to roll back un update to its OS that had run into trouble with some apps including the YouTube app. The version that was affected was V10.5 and there were a number of compatibility issues. The YouTube app had been taken off the Roku channel store and so users … Read more
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 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
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
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
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