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Kopin Provides Business Update and First Quarter 2020 Operating Results

Kopin Corporation, a leading provider of innovative wearable computing technologies and solutions, provided an update on its business initiatives and reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 28, 2020. “We are pleased with the strong start to the year, reflecting ongoing demand from defense customers, continued success in streamlining our cost structure and … Read more

Acer Earns 11 Red Dot Awards for Product Design; Predator Gaming Chair Also Wins Innovation Products Award

Eleven Acer products have earned a total of twelve 2020 Red Dot Awards for product excellence and design innovation. The Predator gaming line swept up the most awards with its notebook, chair and monitors. The Predator Thronos Air gaming chair also won the Red Dot Innovation Products Award, which is bestowed to products that set … Read more

IDC Lowers Forecast for Worldwide IT Spending to a Decline of 5.1% in 2020, but Cloud Spending Remains Relatively Resilient

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Worldwide IT spending is now expected to decline 5.1% in constant currency terms this year to $2.25 trillion, as the economic impact of the COVD-19 pandemic continues to drive down some categories of tech spending and short-term business investments. A new update to the IDCWorldwide Black Book Live Edition shows ICT spending, which includes telecom … Read more

QD Materials are Set for High Growth – Here’s Why

Quantum Dot-based panel shipments are forecast to grow from 3M shipments in 2018 to 31M shipments by 2025 representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40%, according to DSCC. The report provides both technical and market information about various QD architectures for use in display including QDEF, QDOG, QD OLED, QNED and EL QDs. … Read more

Energous Receives 2020 Global Technology Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan for its WattUp Wireless Charging Technology 

Based on its recent analysis of the global wireless charging market, Frost & Sullivan presents Energous Corporation (Nasdaq:WATT), a leader in wireless charging 2.0, with the 2020 Global Technology Innovation Award for its WattUp® Near Field contact-based and Mid Field ‘at a distance’ charging technologies. WattUp is a novel technology that enables a broad and … Read more

MicroLED Display:  Progressing Towards Commercialization

microLED is considered to be a next generation display technology. It provides the best features of both LCD and OLED display. It has the potential to outperform both the technologies in terms of color reproducibility, brightness, reliability and low power consumption. Many working prototypes have been introduced, but it is not in volume production yet … Read more

Global Smartphone Shipments Plunge in Q1 as Coronavirus Takes a Toll

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Global smartphone shipments dropped by 16.8 percent in the first quarter as vendors struggled to manage coronavirus-driven production shutdowns, product-launch delays and depressed consumer demand. Shipments in the first quarter fell to 274.4 million units, down from 329.9 million during the same period in 2019, according to the Omdia Smartphone Intelligence Service. This plunge impacted … Read more

Worldwide Smartphone Market Suffers Its Largest Year-Over-Year Decline in Q1 2020 Due to COVID-19, According to IDC

Worldwide smartphone shipments decreased 11.7% year over year in the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. In total, companies shipped 275.8 million smartphones during 1Q20. Although the first quarter usually experiences a sequential (quarter over quarter) decline in shipments, with the … Read more

Volumetric Capture, Monitor and 8K Camera Updates from Canon

Canon held a virtual press conference to disclose what they would have shown at NAB had it gone forward as usual. While much of the event focused on professional camera updates, I will focus on three items more of interest to Display Daily readers, as the headline suggests. In professional monitors, no new products were … Read more