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GE Updates on its Phosphor Technologies

When, during last week’s SID Display Week Business Conference, Jason Hartlove of Nanosys declared that the battle between OLED and QD-enhanced TVs was over. Although there was some logic to the point of view, it sounded just a touch hubristic (if that’s a word!). It sounded especially so after the talk by James Murphy of … Read more

IFA 2020 Special Edition: IFA Global Markets Postponed to 2021 Despite Industry’s High Interest

IFA Global Markets will be held again in 2021. Plans to reunite manufacturers, distributors and retailers at the major sourcing platform for Consumer and Home Electronics this year in Berlin as part of the IFA 2020 Special Edition proved to be impossible for companies from Asian markets. “Through discussions with our partners we learned that … Read more

Bodle Moves Onto the Next Stage

Just before Display Week, I managed to catch up with Peiman Hosseini, a founder of Bodle Technologies, a technology start-up that is developing bistable displays. The company is developing a display application that exploits a material science discovery made by him and Prof. Harish Bhaskaran. We have reported on the company regularly since the firm … Read more

Chiariglione Launches Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) Organisation

We received the following from Leonardo Chiariglione, who was a founder and chairman of MPEG, although he has now left that organisation (The Codec Wars Get Personal With MPEG Dispute). We published an article from him just a few months ago. Design and Build the Future of MPEG “Dear Colleague I would like to introduce … Read more

Kopin OLED Microdisplay Exhibits Breakthrough 7000 Nits Brightness with Good Color Fidelity

Kopin Corporation, a leading developer and provider of transmissive and reflective active matrix liquid crystal and organic light emitting diode (OLED) microdisplays, announced its latest Lightning® 720p OLED display (1280 x 720 resolution) on silicon has exhibited very high brightness of 7000 nits (candela per square meter) with good color (nearly 100% sRGB) and high … Read more

Bodle Technologies Announces World’s First TFT Driven Solid State Reflective Display® Fabricated on a GEN2.5 Line

Bodle Technologies Ltd has developed the world’s first TFT driven Solid State Reflective Display (SRD®) fabricated on a GEN2.5 line at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Led by Bodle’s VP for Manufacturing, TS Jen, the team in Taiwan transferred the designs and research activities directly from the Oxford based team to produce the test … Read more

GE Unveils Inkjet-Printed Red Phosphor (PFS-KSF) with Eyes on Next Generation Micro-LED, Mini-LED Display Markets

With a focus on the emerging micro-LED and mini-LED display markets, GE unveiled important advances with narrow-band red (PFS-KSF) and green phosphors that will accelerate their integration into these next generation display applications. These advances, along with significant improvements to existing commercial applications, were highlighted during a keynote presentation by Dr. James Murphy during the … Read more

Notions Sells Several Systems For Mura Free Inkjet Printing Of Future Displays

Notion Systems received a major order of several n.jet display inkjet printing systems from a major Taiwanese display manufacturer and underlines its leading position in the market. The n.jet display series prints functional layers in various steps of display production, and for various display technologies. This includes rigid, flexible, OLED, QLED, and LCD displays. In … Read more

Strategy Analytics: New Normal for Tablet Market? Highest Growth Rate in Six Years Recorded in Q2 2020

Despite intense economic hardship related to COVID-19 quarantine orders, consumer and commercial customers went on a tablet buying spree to support work/learn-from-home initiatives. The supply chain almost fully recovered by April/May, which contributed to a 17% year-on-year increase in tablet shipments in Q2 2020, according to Strategy Analytics’ latest report. Back-to-school demand could further boost … Read more

Remember Wireless HDMI?

As the COVID-19 outbreak grew in size back in March, a small local church contacted me and asked if there was a way to shoot video of each Sunday’s service and post it to the church’s Web site, instead of having live services. The small congregation is mostly made up of members age 50 and … Read more