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What They Say Acer continues to do really well despite, or perhaps because of, the pandemic and reported revenues up 43.2% on a year ago for October. Business highlights include: YoY revenue for notebook PCs grew by 70.3% in October, and by 27.2% year-to-October YoY revenue for monitors grew by 43.3% in October, and by … Read more
What They Say DSCC put out its forecast for microLED TV technology which is conservative, based on the high costs of making TVs using the technology at the moment. “It will be a huge challenge to compete, even in the premium TV category” The costs scale with the number of pixels, so 8K will be … Read more
What They Say Nikkei reported that Chinese supplier, Luxshare (What Bob Saw on the Net 25 08 2020), which is buying a factory from Wistron, has been allowed to see the production of the iPhone 12 mini. Wistron is reported to be making 20% of the production of that model. The Nikkei said that Luxshare … Read more
What They Say A recent audit by Skytrax has awarded 5 stars to Munich Airport again for its facilities for travellers. The airport is the only European 5 star airport, one of seven worldwide. What We Think Munich airport has a lot of digital signage and displays. I attended a walk-around during one of the … Read more
What They Say Clear Channel Airports has won a 10-year contract with Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to provide a DOOH advertising network which will include an LCD network inside rental car shuttle buses, digital projection, baggage claim digital network, floor exhibits and other banners. What We Think This is the second long term win … Read more
PPDS is excited to announce the availability in its European warehouses of Philips T-Line – a brand new range of advanced interactive touch displays designed exclusively for education, bringing transformative levels of engagement and collaboration between students and tutors in the classroom. First unveiled at ISE 2020 in February, the new sleek and stylish Android-powered … Read more
What They Say Best Buy is offering the Vizio 55″ to signed-in Best Buy account holders for just $899 and the 65″ for $1,499. What We Think Wow! That’s seriously cheap. For LG it may not help to maintain the premium perception of OLED if prices are pushed down so far. It’s certainly a good … Read more
What They Say The Elec has said that LG Display is expanding its E6-1 and E6-2 lines to boost output by 25K/month additional substrates of LTPO (5K, then 10K in May 2021 and another 10K in June). The main reason is building the capacity to increase its shipments to Apple, the paper said and also … Read more
What They Say Yeolight Technology of China has posted a video of its segmented OLED automotive light system. OLED-Info posted these details. “The OLED lighting module, which is shaped like a triangle, uses 50 segments each a right-angled triangle with an area of 19 mm2. The segments are created by photolithography with an accuracy of … Read more
What They Say Sling Media said that it would discontinue the supply its Slingbox products with immediate effect and would discontinue its support of the service in two years time in November 2022. The company said that it would not be releasing any new products What We Think I knew people that really relied on … Read more
Yesterday, we looked at the way that Aledia is developing its Nanowire microLED technology. Today we look at the cost issues and practicalities. The next list shows the many approaches that have been proposed for mass transport, but only the simple pick and place has been used commercially. There’s a nice diagram available online here … Read more
Hardly a day goes by without another market research company anticipating that microLEDs will dominate the display industry or that another start-up has made a breakthrough to enable cost effective product development. Yet the only commercial µLED products released to date are very large, very expensive TV monitors from Samsung, Sony and LG. Sony released … Read more
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