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Visionox Makes Profit and Looks to New Clients

What They Say A report by the OLED-info blog on Visionox, quoting Chinese sources, says that Visionox expects to report a small profit of $21 to $31 million for the year. It has added Oppo and Motorola as customers over the last year, while developing ‘under the display cameras’ and high refresh panels. The report … Read more

Canalys: Tablets and Chromebooks set all-time high shipment records in Q4 2020

What They Say Canalys put out its Q4 numbers a couple of weeks ago and reported that the overall PC market (desktops, notebooks, workstations and tablets) reached 143.7 million units in Q4, up 35%, bringing total shipments grew 17% to reach 458.2 million units, the highest volume since 2015. Lenovo was the top brand (tables … Read more

Worldwide Tablet Shipments Return to Growth in 2020, Fueled by Unprecedented Demand, According to IDC

The worldwide tablet market had an outstanding fourth quarter (4Q20) with 19.5% year-over-year growth and shipments totaling 52.2 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Impacted by the pandemic, the tablet market reached shipment levels not seen since the fourth quarter of 2017 when … Read more

AGC Glass Tank Accident Impact May Extend Glass Tightness

What They Say DSCC said in its blog that AGC had suffered a small accident in its plant in Korea that may add to lengh of the tightness of supply in glass following problems for Corning & NEG (Power Outage at NEG May Create Glass Shortage for Displays). One of the four tanks ‘exploded’, while … Read more

More on LG’s new OLED Stack

What They Say I found the time to catch up with the Nanosys-sponsored Display Show interview of Bob O’Brien (DSCC) by Brian Berkeley. Overall, it was, as you would expect from two industry veterans, comprehensive and authoritative but didn’t really release anything new, other than a confirmation by O’Brien that he believes that the LG … Read more

E Ink and Atmosic Announce eBadge Reference Design

E Ink Holdings, “E Ink”, the leading innovator of electronic ink technology, and Atmosic, an innovator in extreme-low-power Bluetooth® Low Energy semiconductor technology for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced a reference design for eBadge applications. According to Markets and Markets™, the smart badge market is set for significant growth over the next few years; … Read more

Covestro and Ceres Holographics Announce Strategic Partnership

Scottish technology provider Ceres Holographics announces a strategic partnership with Covestro to commercialize Bayfol® HX photopolymer films for transparent automotive display applications. Ceres Holographics uses them to create specialty solutions with customized holographic optical elements (HOEs) designed to enable a new generation of transparent display applications for automobiles and commercial vehicles. The new partnership represents … Read more

Measure What the Human Eye Sees: Optical Testing of AR/VR Headsets

Perfect user experience for AR/VR headsets calls for extensive, fast and highly accurate optical tests during production. In order to meet this specific challenge, Instrument Systems has developed the LumiTop AR/VR 2D imaging colorimeter. The LumiTop’s AR/VR lens simulates the human eye and measures color and luminance exactly as seen by the user. The unique … Read more