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Market Share of LTPS Smartphone Panels in 2021 Likely to Be Constrained by Increasing AMOLED Panel Capacities and High a-Si Panel Demand, Says TrendForce

November 9, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

As the COVID-19 pandemic caused flagship smartphones to turn in lower-than-expected sales performances in 1H20, the market share of AMOLED phones fell short of forecasts made in early 2020, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations. The market share of AMOLED phones for 2020 is expected to reach 33%, a 2% increase YoY, thanks to the release … Read more

Monitor Shipment Expected to Grow by 5.4% YoY in 2020, While Asus Undergoes Highest % Growth and Samsung Rises in Ranking, Says TrendForce

November 9, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

Global monitor shipment is projected to grow by 5.4% YoY this year owing to strong shipment performances against the downtrend by monitor brands that primarily focus on the consumer markets; as of 2020, these brands have experienced three consecutive years of YoY shipment growth, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations. This strong shipment performance can be … Read more

Apple Puts Taiwanese Supplier Pegatron On Probation Over Student Workers

November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple has put Pegatron ‘on probation’ as a supplier because the company had not correctly handled student workers. Pegatron will not get new contracts until all corrective actions have been taken. Pegatron said it had fired the responsible executive. What We Think It can only be good that this kind of action … Read more

Nokia to Ship Android TV-powered Smart TVs and OTT Boxes to Europe

November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nokia has licensed its brand to be used for Android-based smart TVs (32″ 1080P and 43″and 75″ UltraHD) to be sold in the DACH countries (Germany. Austria and Switzerland). They have four HDMI inputs and game response time of 9.5ms. Previously, the brand was only used on TVs in India, but these … Read more

Apple’s Warranties & Service Contracts

November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week has had a deep dive into Apple’s warranty and extended warranty business and found that the company has been doing better and better over recent years. IT’s warranty accruals have fallen to a new low level, although product volumes were not so sharply down. The publication (admitting “everything below is … Read more

LG Brings Projection into the Meeting Room

November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG has stared to ship the BU50NST a 5000 ANSI Lumen LP UltraHD single 0.47″ chip DLP projector that was originally announced in June. It has a zoom (1.6X) lens and can support images from 40″ (1m) to 300″ (7.6m) diagonal with a throw distance of 1.32:1 to 2.11:1. . It has … Read more

China’s Smartphone Market Dropped 14.3% in Q3 2020 Under Soft Demand and Delayed Product Availability, IDC Reports

November 9, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 84.8 million smartphones were shipped in China in the third quarter of 2020, down 14.3% year-on-year (YoY). This was the result of multiple factors: soft demand; Huawei’s supply constraints; and delayed flagship launches from both Huawei and Apple. “The escalated US trade restrictions in August ultimately … Read more

EMEA Tablet Momentum Continues in 3Q as Education Demand Surges, Says IDC

November 9, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) tablet market surged in 3Q20 (+22.9% YoY) and reached 13.5 million units, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The EMEA tablet market experienced another strong quarter across all regions, as shipments to address education tenders jumped to unprecedented volumes, reaching 1.7 million units in the region. Despite a … Read more

Xiaomi Mi Box 4S Pro is an 8K Android TV box that costs just $60 in China

November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi has launched the Mi Box 4S Pro, an 8K Android-based streaming STB in China that is selling for just $60 (Yuan 399). It’s got an upgraded 16GB of storage, HDMI 2.1 support, and Bluetooth voice controls. It uses the MIUI interface. The 4K Mi Box 4S is available for $50 at … Read more

Roku Well Up in Q3

November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Roku reported revenues up 73% year on year to $452 million in Q3 2020 with gross profit up 81% to $215 million. Operating profit was up to $12 million against a loss last year of $26.5 million. Active accounts were up from 32.2 million to 46 million and streaming hours up from … Read more

Sharp’s first-half net profit falls 17.8%

November 9, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sharp saw sales up 1.9% to $10.78 billion for the first half of its fiscal 2020, but saw profits decline 17.8% as sales of office printers dropped. The company expects to get back on track in the second half of the year. What We Think I remember, many years ago, working with … Read more

Researchers Address Blue Emission Issues in Perovskite-Based LEDs

November 8, 2020 by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Professors Myung-Hoon Song and Sang-Gyu Kwak of the Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (Ulsan, Korea) in conjunction with Han-Young Woo of the Department of Chemistry at Korea University (Seoul, Korea) and others, recently announced the development of a perovskite-based LED (PeLED) technology that can enable improvements related to … Read more