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By most measures Samsung Electronics (SEC) is having a banner H121: total revenues are up 19.2% Y/Y and net profits are up even more, 34.4%. Visual Display (the TV & monitor business) revenues are up 31.3%, Samsung Display (SDC) revenues up 70% (albeit helped by Apple’s one-time payment for not buying OLED panels) and Mobile … Read more
realme, a global emerging consumer technology company, announced a milestone of 100 million smartphones sold globally. On the back of strong performance during the 2020 and 2021 economic challenges posed by COVID-19, realme became the fastest global smartphone brand to reach this milestone in three years, according to Strategy Analytics, a market research consultancy. realme … Read more
5 years ago everything started to change. When making small talk with a new acquaintance who asked “So what do you do?” I used to make a valiant attempt at describing quantum dots and how they could potentially benefit displays and other technologies like solar, biotech, etc. Usually, they would feign interest until we moved … 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. sixteen-nine.net highlights projection mapping at the Olympics Glassmaker Earnings – NEG, AGC and Comparison PS5, Xbox Series X/S break sales records despite chip shortages Invidis has video on … Read more
Perhaps it’s not news to some of you, since our trusted editor Bob pointed out last week that Nanosys has been rumored to be exploring an option to go public via a SPAC. I want to be crystal clear that this piece is, in part, based on public rumors and speculation along with announcements from … Read more
What They Say Sigmaintell issued its data for TV panel pricing in early August and suggested a drop of $5 in the proce of open cells from 32″ to 55″, with larger sizes flat. Set makers have become more conservative on stock holding at the same time that supply has continued to expand, although there … Read more
What They Say Sigmaintell said that demand for monitors by consumers remains firm although supply has been hit by shortages of components and rising monitor panel prices. However, the firm thinks that demand will be the key factor as component supply did improve in Q2. Brands continued to re-stock actively. Volumes were down 3.3% from … Read more
What They Say Image technology specialist, Beamr, posted a blog claiming that it has now got 50 granted patents. It’s first business was in optimising images for more efficient compression while maintaining the subjective quality. The company explained: “Our first patent applications covered the components of the quality measure itself, and its usage in a … Read more
What They Say TCL reported profits up 122.9% for the first half of the year at $133 million. Revenues were up 103.7% for the year to $4.49 billion. TCL smartTV sales rose to 11.27 million sets, up 11.9% and the firm quoted data from Sigmaintell to give a market share of 11.6%, up 1%. According … Read more
TCL Electronics Holdings Limited announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2021.In the first half of 2021, against the backdrop of the continued tight supply and demand for TV panels, the Company demonstrated strong resilience. With the world’s leading capabilities in brand and products, the Company’s smart screen sales volume … Read more
What They Say In the US, Amazon and Best Buy have released new Insignia and Toshiba TVs based on Amazon’s Fire TV software. Features include QD support for WCG and Dolby Vision operation as well as DTS Virtual-X audio. Alexa support is built into the remote and can be invoked with a button. There are … Read more
What They Say Semiengineering took a look at the development of displays in automotive applications. Among the topics covered were the unique challenges of automotive, the lack of a single standard for connections with the interface choice dictated by the device type and resolution and the distance from the SOC. There are also regional differences … Read more
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