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Review: Asus ZenBook 13 OLED UM325S

What They Say The Hexus blog had a look at the Asus ZenBook UM325S notebook which has a 13.3-inch FullHD OLED screen, which is the only option for AMD-powered machines, whereas the Intel-powered versions are available with OLEDs or LCDs. The display is a Samsung 16:9 panel identified as ATNA33XC11-0 and with up to 400 … Read more

Lextar Showcased Advanced Micro / Mini LED Display Technology  

Lextar has announced the release of the latest series of Micro/Mini LED display offerings, including both LED display and backlighting applications at Touch Taiwan 2021 last week. In terms of LED display technology, the company exhibited transparent micro-LED displays, micro-chip-in-package displays, and ultra-fine pitch (P0.46) mini-LEDs . Also on display will be the company’s latest … Read more

Gaming in Germany Continues to Grow

What They Say An analyst company, block-builders.net produced a number of infographics, based on data from a number of sources, about the development of the gaming market in Germany. Data from game.de estimated that gaming hardware generated hardware sales of €8.5 billion. 40% of male gamers state that they can no longer imagine life without … Read more

Reflect Systems Announces Innovation Lab and Introduces “Zero Touch” – Enabling Mobile Interaction for Any Digital Signage Screen  

Reflect Systems, provider of award-winning digital signage experiences for retail, entertainment venues, healthcare providers and corporate communications environments, announced the introduction of its newest innovation, Zero Touch – the first-of-its-kind scalable, secure signage solution that provides users the ability to control interactive digital signage experiences directly from their mobile device. Zero Touch is the first … Read more

Campfire Emerges from Stealth

What They Say Campfire is a new company that has come out of stealth, although the firm is reported to have had its roots in the Meta AR firm which dissolved in 2019. The assets were acquired by a firm that employed Jay Wright, ex-Qualcomm, and reported to have overseen the development of the Vuforia … Read more

Smartphone Recovery Continues with Shipments Up 25.5% in the First Quarter of 2021, According to IDC

The pace of recovery for the smartphone market accelerated in the first quarter of 2021 (1Q21) with 25.5% year-over-year shipment growth. According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped nearly 346 million devices during the quarter. The strong growth came from all regions with the … Read more

Component shortages drag down Taiwan TV shipments in 1Q21, says Digitimes Research

What They Say Digitimes Research said that Taiwan-based makers shipped only 6.26 million LCD TVs globally in the first quarter of 2021, down 34.2% sequentially, due mainly to shortages of panels, display driver ICs and SoC chips. The firm expects shipments to drop by 8.3% in Q2 compared to Q1 and may be 8.6% down … Read more

Zheng Ding to Boost miniLED backlit PCB shipments

What They Say We reported on some supply chain issues with its iPad Pro MiniLED display (Apple With Backlight Supply Chain Challenge) and now Digitimes has identified Zhen Ding Technologies as a supplier of backlight PC boards, alongside Youngpoong Electronics. Tripod Technology, also from Taiwan, is reported to be trying to join the supply chain. … Read more

Samsung Electronics Announces First Quarter 2021 Results

Total consolidated revenue was KRW 65.39 trillion, a 6% increase from the previous quarter and a record for the first quarter. Operating profit increased 4% from the previous three-month period to KRW 9.38 trillion as solid sales of smartphones and consumer electronics outweighed lower earnings from semiconductors and displays. The semiconductor business saw an earnings … Read more

Samsung and Apple Report Good Results

What They Say Samsung reported profits of $8.45 billion on sales of $59 billion in Q1 2021. Solid sales of smartphones and consumer electronics outweighed lower earnings from semiconductors and displays. The display business saw sales of $6.24 billion with profits of $324 million. Sales of mobile panels were down because of chip shortages and … Read more

Lextar Catches Up on Touch Taiwan

What They Say Lextar sent out a press release describing what it had shown at Touch Taiwan last week. The firm highlighted a number of applications but also linked to the Ennostar image gallery Epistar/Lextar/Yenrich) from the event including the 70% transparent display we reported on last week. We’ve included some of the images. What … Read more