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Crystal Clear: Pioneering the Last 60 years of Display Technology Innovation & Looking Into the Future

November 3, 2021 by Sri Peruvemba

From large outdoor interactive screens on buildings to tiny displays in wristwatches, the display industry has created applications and entire industries over the past 60 years, transforming our entire society. Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation. Older TV’s took … Read more

Apple in talks with Samsung Display to apply OLED to MacBook

December 21, 2022November 3, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that Apple has started to talk to LG & Samsung about the possible supply of OLEDs for MacBooks, a plan that had been originally planned for 2025, the paper said. The paper expects Apple to use tandem LTPO OLEDs for iPads in late 2023 or 2024 in 11″ and … Read more

Samsung to Offer Tizen to Other TV Makers – and Digital Signage?

November 3, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Invidis reported that Samsung is opening up the Tizen for Business platform which it has used in its smart public displays and is also providing new remote management tools. The OS is going to be available for licensing by consumer TV companies, it was said at the Samsung Developer Conference this year, … Read more

Apple trims iPad production to feed chips to iPhone 13

November 2, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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

Lenovo Teases Second Screen for Drawing

November 2, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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

Power On Says Mixed Reality Headset ‘As Early as Next Year’

November 2, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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

Metaverse – Meta and Drink for Critics

December 21, 2022November 2, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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

LCD TV Panel Prices Continued to Plunge in October

November 2, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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

Display and Optics Manufacturing: How Applied Materials Will Tackle the AR/VR Challenge

November 2, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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

Foldable OLED Volumes to Grow Rapidly

November 2, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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

Chromebook and Tablet Shipments Post First Decline Since the Start of the Pandemic, According to IDC

November 2, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

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 Introduces World’s Brightest Full-color OLED Microdisplay

November 1, 2021 by Bob Raikes

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