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Rohinni First to Bring At-Scale Mini LED Manufacturing Technology to Market; Reaches Monumental Technical Milestone Enabling Premium Consumer Products and Next-Gen Designs

April 23, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Rohinni, the expert in mini LED placement technology, announces its new composite bondhead, further securing its position as the leading technology developer for mini LED-based products. The new bondhead expands already-at-scale production capabilities for display backlights at cost-competitive prices. It combines Rohinni’s proven high-speed system that is 14 times faster than competing technology with a … Read more

Zymergen Uses Biology to Make Polyimide Films

April 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the news about Touch Taiwan, I spotted a company that we haven’t reported on before, Zymergen, which makes films. The firm is based in the US, but has offices in Japan and Taiwan. Unusually, the firm develops Hyaline films and the first, Z2 was ‘inspired by biology’ and using new monomers. … Read more

More From Touch Taiwan, but not Much More!

December 21, 2022April 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Disappointingly, although AUO did a good job with providing information on what it was showing at Touch Taiwan Innolux didn’t, with just a simple text description of the company and its history. E Ink did a bit better. It was showing it (Advanced Color ePaper) ACeP electrophoretic display in a 13.3″ display … Read more

OTI Lumionics Helping With Foldable OLEDs

December 21, 2022April 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

I reported on a talk by materials technology start-up, OTI Lumionics after the Business Conference during Display Week last year and this week I had the chance to catch up with CEO Michael Helander on a Zoom call. The ostensible topic was the developments of the company’s materials which can be used to improve the … Read more

Radiant Launches New High-Resolution Imaging Solutions and Demonstrates Display Testing at the Virtual Display Week 2021 Exhibition

April 23, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Radiant Vision Systems, leading provider of automated visual inspection solutions for displays, announces that it will launch new high-resolution imaging metrology solutions for scientific test and measurement at the virtual Display Week 2021 exhibition. The Radiant booth will include new product information as well as video demonstrations of its imaging systems, optics, and automated software … Read more

Neonode Touch Sensor Modules Selected for Contactless Retail Self-Checkout Kiosk Rollout in Japan

April 23, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Neonode Inc. is pleased to announce that Japan Aerospace Corporation, a Neonode value-added reseller, has been selected by a major Japanese retail chain to retrofit the chain’s self-checkout kiosks with Neonode contactless touch technology. This retrofit solution developed by Japan Aerospace Corporation, called Air Click, is mounted along the top of the self-checkout kiosk display … Read more

Sony PS5 VR Due ‘After 2021’

April 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei published an article in Japanese (unfortunately not available on the English language service) in which Sony Interactive Entertainment’s CEO told the paper that the next Sony PlayStation VR headset, will have a wider field of view, higher resolution, and better tracking than the PSVR when it launches ‘sometime after 2021’. Sony … Read more

Magic Leap CEO Interviewed

December 21, 2022April 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Peggy Johnson, the CEO of Magic Leap since last summer, told Protocol that the Magic Leap 2 will have twice the field of view as the Magic Leap One, but will be half the size and 20% lighter. It will be available initially in low volume to ‘early adopters’, with wider availability … Read more

New ProBeam Business Projectors From LG Offer Even Greater Convenience And Performance

April 23, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

LG Electronics (LG) has added two new outstanding offerings to its ProBeam lineup of business projectors. The new models – BU60PST and BF60PST – offer a number of enhancements and features that bring greater performance to the office or school. With great image quality and a plethora of useful features, these latest LG ProBeam models … Read more

MiniLED, microLED a focus at Touch Taiwan 2021

December 21, 2022April 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes highlighted some LED displays at Touch Taiwan. Lextar showed a 147″ miniLED display with 0.46mm pitch. It also had 12.3- to 65-inch COB (chip on board) and DOB (driver on board) miniLED-backlit LCD panels for automotive and marine displays, notebooks, desktop monitors and TVs. Working with X Display, Lextar also had … Read more

Epistar to Raise Prices for LED, miniLED

April 23, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reports that Epistar plans to increase prices for LEDs and miniLEDs this quarter as demand is strong and material costs have risen, quoting the firm’s president speaking at Touch Taiwan. The firm is now said to have annual capacity for 1 million 4″ wafers for miniLED, which is about right for … Read more

Chromebook Boom to Continue

April 22, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Omdia published a blog post that highlighted the boost in Chromebook shipments in Q1 2021 – up 369% from 2020. HP was a big winner with 39% of Chromebook shipments. Omdia also noted that the Y/Y growth rate in 1Q21 would have been even higher but for challenges presented by component shortages … Read more