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What They Say Scientists at the University of Utah and the NREL have developed a new LED that is said to use spintronics to produce light that is circularly polarised. The LEDs do not need a magnetic field, magnetic materials or cryogenic temperatures to achieve light emission as spin-polarised carrier pairs. The research was published … Read more
What They Say Wixin of China, quoting the Hubei Daily, reports that San’an will start trial production at its new facility in Ezhou, Hubei Province. The development started in July 2019 and was at one point delayed by Covid, but recovered the schedule and Phase 2 is said to be six months ahead of the … Read more
Samsung’s Tizen smart TV streaming platform further extended its lead in 2020 as the number of Tizen devices in use worldwide increased by 21% year-on-year to 162.3 million, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics’ TV Streaming Platforms service. Strong growth was also seen in Google’s Android TV (+42%), Roku TV OS (+40%) and … Read more
What They Say Strategy Analytics put out a press release (Strategy Analytics: Samsung’s Tizen Smart TV Streaming Platform Scaled New Heights in 2020) with details of the global installed base of TV streaming platforms. It ranked Samsung as having the largest installed base with 12.7% on a total global connected device market of 1.28 billion. … Read more
What They Say The IRT (Institut für Rundfunktechnik) in Munich is in the process of liquidation and has closed more of its activities after a decision to close in the summer of 2020. The IRT was founded in 1956 to perform R&D for the German-speaking (DACH) region and had around 100 staff at the end … Read more
Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe released the next generation of its NEC MultiSync® E Series large format displays, which offers a professional solution for low-budget signage applications. The E Series comes in sizes from 32 inches to 65 inches and is perfect for a conference-room display or retail signage. With a modern design, high-definition quality … Read more
What They Say IDC put out its data for wearables sales for 2020 and for Q4 2020. The good news was a boost of 27.2% year on year in Q4 to 153.5 million, but the bad news was that the big growth was in hearables which are 64.2% of the market, with smartwatches next at … Read more
Worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), a year-over-year increase of 27.2% according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Shipments for the full year grew 28.4% to 444.7 million units. While the holiday quarter was largely driven by new … Read more
What They Say Digitimes has published two reports suggesting that the demand for notebooks is weakening. First it reported that one top three notebook brand has asked chip suppliers to stop shipments and chassis suppliers told the site that shipment pull-ins from one brand had slowed. Display inventory has started to trend up after a … Read more
Amid exponential growth of the gaming industry that is being fueled mostly by more stay-at-home time, Samsung Display announced that it will aggressively expand its presence in the gaming smartphone and laptop (note PC) markets with OLED displays optimized for high-resolution gaming content. With more people practicing social distancing by staying at home, the number … Read more
What They Say DSCC said that its latest capacity forecast for the LCD industry as better performance from miniLED backlights improves revenues for makers and allows more money for further investment. The CAGR of growth from 2020-25 is 4.3% and capacity increase has risen from 1% CAGR to 3% CAGR despite 13% of 2020 capacity … Read more
What They Say The Information reported that nearly a fifth of Amazon’s global workforce are working on AR and VR projects and that 17% of employees are in the AR/VR division, up 5% from 2017. The blog found 800 vacancies in AR, VR, AI, and brain-computer interfaces. What We Think We reported a talk by … Read more
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