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Xinhua Silk Road: BOE Shows Off Display Expertise at SID Display Week 2021

BOE brings its innovative technologies and applications to the Display Week 2021, a display event hosted by the Society for Information Display (SID) on May 17, demonstrating its industry-leading innovation ability and exceptional technological leadership to the world. At the event, BOE exhibits its technologies and products in five major areas: the ADS Pro, flexible … Read more

Snap is buying WaveOptics

What They Say Snap is acquiring WaveOptics of Oxford in the UK for over $500 million in cash and stocks having just announced new glasses using the optics. The new glasses will be limited to a’select group of creators’ rather than publicly available. It was not clear at press time whether WaveOptics would continue with … Read more

The Pixel 6 Pro Renders Leaked

What They Say Leaked alleged renders of the Google Pixel 6 Pro suggest that the device will have a 6.67″ OLED display, which GSMArena reports as having 1080×2400 resolution and 120Hz refresh, although that is also in the category of rumour, we think. It is said to have an under-display optical fingerprint reader. What We … Read more

Samsung Expands Smart Monitor Lineup Worldwide to Meet Growing Demand of Do-It-All Displays

Samsung Electronics announced the global availability of its newly expanded Smart Monitor lineup, providing more display sizes and design options, along with new and enhanced smart features. The lineup now includes a larger 43-inch M7 (UHD resolution) model, delivering enhanced productivity and an immersive entertainment experience. The M5 (FHD resolution) models are now available in … Read more

UBI: the OLED materials market will grow 17% in 2021 to $1.52 billion USD

What They Say UBI Research of Korea forecast that the OLED emitter material market would grow this year from $1.3 billion in 2020 by 17% to $1.52 billion this year. Korean companies dominate the purchasing of the materials, with 74.3%, the balance being from China. The firm said that emitters for RGB OLEDs are 81.4% … Read more

Kobo Elipsa Supports a Stylus

What They Say A hat tip to Jon Peddie for pointing me to a new eReader from Kobo. The Ellipsa uses a 10.3″ E Ink Cart 1200 display with 1404 x 1872 resolution (227ppi) and touch. It will be supplied with a stylus to allow note taking and graphic input, the first Kobo device to … Read more

Nanosys Buys Glō

What They Say We got an email to advise us that Nanosys had purchased Gl?, which has been developing technology for microLEDs. In a Youtube interview on Nanosys’ Youtube channel, Jason Hartlove (at this point in the talk) gave some background on the acquisition saying that the eventual ‘end point’ for Nanosys was to develop … Read more