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What They Say The waveguide developer, DigiLens, has attracted an unspecified investment from Samsung Electronics that values the firm at $500 million. Also involved in the funding are Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Diamond Edge Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation, Alsop Louie Partners, 37 Interactive Entertainment, UDC Ventures, the corporate venture arm of … Read more
DISPLAX™ announced a successful collaboration with SYNAPTICS™ (Nasdaq: SYNA), which answers a long overdue need for a complete line of cost-effective, high-performance touch products for the education and office collaboration markets and a low-cost, high-performance ‘no battery’ Digital Marker Pen in these markets. The result is three new product line offerings from DISPLAX: DISPLAX MESH … Read more
With the success of CZ Smart Wear OS, Citizen introduces its newest smartwatch – a hybrid with an analog display. With the aesthetic of a Citizen sport watch, it provides the exceptional design we have come to expect from Citizen while delivering technology, feature-rich convenience. Citizen’s newest innovation is distinctive in that it marries the … Read more
Complementing the quarterly shipment tracking we do on smartphones, foldables and TVs, DSCC has released the first issue of its Quarterly Advanced IT Display Report which tracks OLED and MiniLED competition in the tablet, notebook PC and monitor/AIO market. The new report: Tracks OLED and MiniLED panel shipments by application by brand by model by … Read more
What They Say UDC announced its Q3 result with record revenue of $143.6 million and confirmed its guidance of $530 million to $560 million for the year. The increase in revenue was due to higher royalty and license fees, as well as higher material sales primarily due to stronger demand in the OLED display market. … Read more
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 80.8 million smartphones were shipped in China in 3Q21, down 4.7% year-on-year (YoY). The decline was the result of higher average selling prices and a continued lack of products that dramatically stimulated demand. Nevertheless, the top five smartphone companies all managed to achieve double-digit share amid … Read more
What They Say Despite reports of a weak global tablet market, the GFU said that sales of tablets in Germany for the year to the end of September are positive with 3.8 million units valued at €1.5 billion and up by 34% in volume, and 43% in value. The ASP has risen to €405, up … Read more
What They Say The Protocol Next Up newsletter picked up on a comment by Mark Zuckerberg last week that “Lots of things that are physical today, like screens, will just be holograms in the future,” Zuckerberg said. “You won’t need a physical TV, it will just be a $1 hologram from some high school kid … Read more
What They Say Phone Arena spotted a patent (“Electronic devices with fiber composite friction hinges”). Most of the rest of the article is speculation and quotes from the the patent application. What We Think As we know, a patent application doesn’t mean that the idea will be implemented, but I have seen crazier ideas and … Read more
What They Say The New York Times looked at the barriers to a quick introduction of self-driving vehicles after the release of a book that pointed out that car makers have been promising to do things to solve the problems created by their products. The book author also believes that autonomous cars may never get … Read more
What They Say Microsoft, the most valuable company in the world when I last looked (and that’s not often!) has responded to Meta’s talk of the Facebookverse by talking up its plans to add mixed-reality functions to its Teams platform. CNET reports that it will integrate Microsoft’s Azure-powered Mesh for mixed-reality shared experiences into Teams … Read more
In my earlier article about six months ago, I summarised the six main categories of technical driver of higher performance IGZO and the rationales for higher performing (oxide) semiconductor materials in displays. Higher performance IGZO can be attained by different levers, in general with different mechanisms: (i) process optimisation, (ii) TFT structures, (iii) crystallisation methods, … Read more
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