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What They Say OLED material supplier UDC has reported a strong end to a good year for its business. It reached record quarterly revenue of $141.5 million, up from $101.7 million in 2019. Material sales were $62.5 million and licensing income was $75 million. Net income was $53.9 million in Q4 up from $26.4 million … Read more
What They Say Google has announced that the Apple TV+ streaming service is now available on Google TV, with the first implementation on Chromecast with Google TV. The service will become available later on TCL and Sony Android-based TVs. Apple Originals content in the personal recommendation engine. TechCrunch reports that the AppleTV+ is now available … Read more
Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced an exciting new development with Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, to further reduce latency for Vuzix Smart Glasses in areas where radio-based devices might have poor to limited connectivity. Supporting the fourth industrial revolution in enterprise … Read more
What They Say I see a lot of forecasts for AR & VR and most of them I ignore. However, I saw one from Frost & Sullivan that forecast revenues of $661.4 billion of revenues by 2025, a CAGR of 86.3%. $161 billion will come from manufacturing which will exploit the technology alongside robotics in … Read more
What They Say NPD said that US consumers spent $4.5 billion on hardware in 2020, up 62% on 2019 and more than double the level of 2017. Monitors were among the strongest growing, along with PC headsets and keyboards, both in units and values. 40% of US consumers played PC games in 2020, up 4% … Read more
According to The NPD Group, in 2020, overall total consumer spending on PC Gaming hardware and accessories totaled $4.5 billion, an increase of 62% over 2019, and more than double total sales from 2017. Digital PC gaming content also experienced growth, increasing 19% to $7.5 billion. All hardware and accessory categories experienced double-digit growth, with … Read more
The LCD panel market is the kind of market that gives classical economics a good name. When supply is stronger than demand, prices dive and when demand is stronger than supply, prices rise. This behaviour has been clear since the beginning of the TFT LCD market. Given where we are now, with 55″ TV panel … Read more
Baanto International is pleased to announce that it is now supporting custom ShadowSense touchscreen hardware designs for the military, emergency services and ruggedised market that are compliant with MIL-STD-3009 NVIS and “Black” NVIS. Night Vision Imagining Systems have become invaluable in a broad range of areas that include military, law enforcement, search and rescue, and … Read more
What They Say Business Korea quoted data from Omdia that credits LG Display with a 92.5% share of the OLED panel market in the automotive segment in 2020, with Samsung Display at 6.9% and BOE at just 0.6%. Customers of LG have included GM (Escalade) and Mercedes-Benz in the high end of the automotive market. … Read more
What They Say Geekwire was able to persuade IDC to confirm its PC data by OS that showed that in 2020, Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide for the first time over the year, although this has happened before in individual quarters. In Q1 2020, Apple and Google were neck-and-neck: Windows grabbed 87.5% market share, macOS took … Read more
Magnachip Semiconductor Corporation announced that the Company has commenced full-scale mass production of its first 120Hz High Frame Rate (HFR) OLED display driver IC (DDIC) for QHD flexible displays, following the successful product release and initial production in 2020. The frame rate refers to the number of frames (images) displayed per second on the screen, … Read more
What They Say Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have developed a silicon chip with fully integrated LEDs that are said to be bright enough to enable state-of-the-art sensor and communication technologies. Working with GlobalFoundries, a group has developed a silicon LED (rather than a typical III-V material mix) that can produce enough … Read more
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