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What They Say Innolux reported its second quarter 2021 result with sales of $3.35 billion with operating profits of $856 million, and net profits of $770 million. Area shipments were flat on Q1 and its blended ASP was $464/m². Small and medium revenues were up 4.3% on Q1. Mobile PC, Mobile & CP, Desktop, and … Read more
E Ink Holdings, the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, announced that the E Ink Spectra 3100 All-in-One Driver IC won the Computex Taipei 2021 Best Choice Award, Category Award for its creative features and innovative values after winning 2019 Best Choice Category Award with E Ink Hardware TCON (T1000). In April 2021, E Ink … Read more
What They Say The 8K Association interviewed Jeff Wu, TVU Networks, Vice President of Solutions about the development of 5G in China and its use in delivering 8K content. Wu said that 8K is typically broadcast at 50-100Mbps using HEVC or VVC. When using the 6GHz range, multi-link data bonding is recommended. Moving to millimetre … Read more
The X95J series is Sony’s current flagship BRAVIA XR 4K HDR Full Array TV and a winner of the CES 2021 Innovation Award[i], making full use of the new revolutionary Cognitive Processor XR™, which employs a completely new processing method going beyond conventional AI, designed to replicate the ways humans see and hear. When we … Read more
What They Say DSCC put out its latest weekly data release that covered investment plans, boosted by LCD projects at BOE, HKC and CSOT. It also confirmed its view and forecast that LCD panel prices have peaked. The article included a chart that I always find useful, the price per m² for different sized panels. … Read more
Of those things that are accepted wisdoms in the display industry, one of them is that a-Si (the standard backplane for 75% of the display industry) is simply not stable enough to drive AMOLED displays. AUO tried back in 2003 and came up with an RGB demo but ultimately failed. Since, more complex and costly … Read more
What They Say Vincent Teoh of HDTV Test has reviewed the LG miniLED QNED99 8K TV set which has 1800 dimming zones (60 x 30). He found that despite the number of dimming zones, there are still artefacts from the backlight dimming algorithm. Colour accuracy was fairly good with a deltaE value of 1.89. 3:2 … Read more
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Xiaomi topped all vendors with 25% market share as European smartphone shipments posted strong growth +14% YoY to 50 million units. The smartphone market rebound was driven by the continued economic recovery, a healthy demand from consumers with aging devices and appealing value priced 5G devices. Boris … Read more
What They Say Tencent of China said that its transcoding and media processing apps can support the H266/VVC codec which is expected to reduce file sizes by a further 50% compared to H.265/HEVC. The firm said that it had been an active participant in the setting of H.266/VVC standard, with over 100 technical proposals adopted … Read more
What They Say We don’t cover semiconductors in any real sense, but a few stories caught my eye over recent weeks and suggest a shift in the ‘tectonic plates’ of the industry. AMD had another strong quarter under the leadership of Lisa Su since 2014 with revenues of $3.85 billion and operating income of $924 … Read more
There are times when I think I know a bit about colour, but then bits of information and knowledge come up that make me realise things are a bit complex than I might think. Here are a couple of those items. First there is the issue of ‘how nits/candelas work’. We use candelas to measure … 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. Panasonic’s first OLED TVs with HDMI 2.1 are now available Aldi testing stretch displays in Sydney, Australia (there is a video on the Invidis site but we couldn’t … Read more
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