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What They Say Nikkei reported that Apple is moving restricted chip supplies to the iPhone 13 rather than its iPad production. It put the rate of cut back as at 50% of the original plans for September and October. The paper reports that Apple’s peak sales of particular iPhones come within a few months of … Read more
What They Say Leaker Evan Blass (rvleaks) has shown an image that is purported to be a 17″ ThinkBook Plus that uses a 17″ main display along with a smaller display that can be used with a pen for graphic input. What We Think I like the look of this idea. The system doesn’t seem … Read more
What They Say In his ‘Power On’ subscription newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple’s first headset will be out next year and will support ‘mixed reality’ that is to say a VR experience with some kind of video passthrough to input surroundings. The headset is intended to ‘handle games in high-quality virtual reality with … Read more
I’ve been trying to hold out from reflecting on it, but I don’t think I can really resist commenting on the Mark Zuckerberg concept of the metaverse, at least as I understand it. (I had planned to call this article ‘Metaverse, shmetaverse’, but I was beaten to it! So I ended up with the horrible … Read more
What They Say Confirming what Sigmaintell said earlier in the week, DSCC reported on the fall in TV prices in October and included a forecast for the rest of this year. The forecast shows a significant flattening in the price of small panels but with 49″/50″ and 65″ continuing to drop quite sharply, although less … Read more
What They Say DSCC is running an AR/VR event this week (November 3-4) and ran an interview with Applied Materials, a platinum sponsor, to promote it. The firm identified optical nanostructured waveguides as a strategic technology as well as highlighting its semiconductor manufacturing processes. The firm said that at the event it was going to … Read more
What They Say UBI Research released its forecast for foldable OLED panels and said that it expects 19.1 milion units in 2022 and reaching 49.1 million in 2025. Samsung Display is expected to continue to dominate the supply of foldable OLEDs. What We Think This is the best we were able to make of the … Read more
After five quarters of growth driven by accelerated buying for remote work and learning, global shipments of Chromebooks and tablets recorded their first decline since the onset of the pandemic in 2020. Chromebook shipments declined 29.8% year over year in the third quarter of 2021 (3Q21) with volumes dropping to 6.5 million units while tablet … Read more
eMagin Corporation, a leader in the development, design and manufacture of Active Matrix OLED microdisplays for high-resolution, AR/VR and other near-eye imaging products, has unveiled a new prototype for a widescreen ultra-extended graphics array (WUXGA) (1920×1200 pixels) that uses the Company’s Direct Patterning Display (dPd™) technology to achieve 10,000 candela per square meter (cd/m2) of … Read more
What They Say eMagin held an event in New York last week to show off its new OLED microdisplay which reaches 10K cd/m² with full colour. Ken was there (and I was there virtually) and will be reporting on it later this week. In the meantime, the press release is here. DSCC’s Bob O’Brien was … Read more
What They Say Testing house, DXOMark published a review of the iPhone 13 mini display and decided that while the OLED is smaller at 5.4″, it still has a performance that is comparable to the larger devices in the series. The smaller phone had excellent readability, ‘pleasant’ HDR 10 video with correct brightness and contrast … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Strategy Analytics: Samsung Leads North American Smartphone Shipments in Q3 2021 LG Display and Dezeen announce the second OLED global design competition Gigabyte: WQHD monitor with 270 Hz, … Read more
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