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A start-up company out of Cambridge University, Poro Technologies Ltd. (Sawston, United Kingdom) or Porotech has announced the upcoming availability of a native red LED epiwafer product. The development of an efficient native red technology is represented as a key enabler for microLED applications and the associated industry. This article is based on and partially … Read more
KONKA, a leading technology company in China, has released the world’s first Micro LED watch, the APHAEA Watch, at KONKA’s Semiconductor Display Technology and New Product Launch Conference and 2020 Chongqing Micro LED Industry Innovation Forum. KONKA’s future APHAEA series of Micro LED display products were also featured, highlighting the company’s R&D strengths in micro-pitch … Read more
What They Say Konka has announced a new smartwatch, the AphaeaWatch that uses a 2″ microdisplay with a pitch of 0.12mm (P0.12), which we calculate as giving 300 x 300 resolution (212ppi), although some seem to have calculated the resolution as 400 x 400. We suspect that they may have used the 2″ dimension as … Read more
What They Say Bodle Technologies has received funding through an extension to its £6m ($8m) Series A funding round. (Bodle Moves Onto the Next Stage) What We Think Bodle is still in the early stages, but there is a big opportunity for low power displays in the longer term. (BR)
Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe one of the global market leaders in professional large format displays, has joined a strategic alliance with Signagam, a spin-off of Belgian digital signage company Kimeru. The partners have embarked on an ambitious global computing expansion that will see the Signagram software suite integrated on all screens featuring the NEC … Read more
What They Say Contract manufacturer Wistron Corp has suffered a riot at an iPhone factory in India, reportedly over unpaid wages, although the company had commissioned employment agencies to pay the workers, according to a Taiwanese businessman with knowledge of the situation. After the riots, Taiwanese sources say that Apple has suspended orders to Wistron. … Read more
What They Say Advanced TV blog published an article based on a presentation by Tristan Veale of Futuresouce Consulting that sets out the competition between Pay TV ($127 billion in 2020) and SVoD ($55 billion in 2020) with SVoD growing rapidly. “Looking to transactional video, which includes physical disc sales as well as digital purchases … Read more
ZEASN, the world’s leading provider of OTT and Smart TV solutions, announced the arrival of its Whale OS Turnkey Solution in Brazil. By partnering with TPV Group, one of the world’s leading monitor and LCD & LED TV manufacturers, along with being a consumer electronics key player in the field of audio-visual digital entertainment, the … Read more
What They Say Scientists at Imperial College, London, have developed a way to make OLEDs that emit chiral light (efficiently polarised. The material is based on ‘fusilli pasta’-shaped layers which can be created using achiral polymers with ‘just a pinch of chiral additives’. What We Think Art wrote about earlier work from Imperial on chiral … Read more
Every week, we see interesting articles where we can’t really add value or they are just interesting and not related to displays, so we put them in a round-up list. French startup is preparing its curved CMOS image sensor for mass production Apple targets self-driving car by 2024 Siggraph Interviews Dr Jon Peddie MGM for … Read more
Looks like the next generation of televisions is around the corner! Samsung just announced it is shipping a 110-inch LED TV that can be installed by anyone in their home, right out of the box. While no pricing has been announced yet, it looks like this product is in a totally different price point category … Read more
Sharp Corporation, best known for bringing LCD televisions, monitors, and projectors to market – and almost going belly-up almost a decade ago – has arisen again and become a major player in the 8K video universe. From the introduction of its first 8K broadcast camera (8C-B60A) in 2017, Sharp has gone all-in with 8K technology. … Read more
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