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Korean panel makers’ exit from LCD TV production expected to create a supply bottleneck. From 2013 through 2020 worldwide flat panel display (FPD) capacity grew almost 50 percent, expanding to 335 million square meters per year, up from 225 million. The continuous build-out of new factories in China, including multiple enormous Gen 10.5 lines, drove … Read more
Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced that another leading hospital’s team of doctors is successfully using the Vuzix M400 Smart Glasses to facilitate patient care. In recent Twitter posts (here and here) from the account of Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Drs. Nicholas … Read more
According to the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments in China stood at 66.6 million units in the first quarter of 2020, a 20.3% decline from 83.6 million units a year ago. This marked the largest decline ever in China as the market was hit by both supply chain disruptions and a demand slump … Read more
They say every dark cloud… well you know. For the current state of affairs, that silver lining is streaming video on demand (SVOD) subscriptions, which will hit a whopping 1.1 billion by mid 2025, with 81% growth in the category according to Digital TV Research. The group also said that Disney and Netflix in particular … Read more
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew 20 percent annually to reach 14 million units in the first quarter of 2020. Apple Watch maintained first position with 55 percent global smartwatch marketshare, while Samsung held second place, and Garmin rose to third. Steven Waltzer, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, … Read more
Philips Professional Display Solutions, the market-leading digital display solutions provider, announced the release of a new state-of-the-art series of customer line management and people counting signage solutions. As social distancing becomes an increasingly important way of life for people and businesses during the current climate, the need for tools to easily and efficiently monitor and … Read more
CTOUCH proudly brings an all-new touchscreen for education and small & medium-sized businesses: the CTOUCH Riva. The Riva is a true ‘chameleon’, as it is designed as a platform for various environments. It can be used as a fully featured stand-alone touchscreen or enriched with CTOUCH BRIX’ solutions for advanced corporate applications. The CTOUCH Riva … Read more
One evening at CES this past January, I walked up to E Ink’s suite for an update from Chief Strategy Officer Paul Apen. “I have something special for you,” Apen had said earlier, and he did. Most of the evening was spent on a presentation from, and Q&A with, Alexander Cotte, CEO of a new … Read more
Last April, Samsung Electronics introduced its new ‘eco-packaging’ – a new kind of product packaging that facilitates the upcycling of the boxes that come with the company’s global lifestyle TV models, which include ‘The Frame,’ ‘The Serif’ and ‘The Sero’. The special cardboard boxes are designed to allow consumers to upcycle the packaging their televisions … Read more
IT spending expectations remain uneven, with significant differences across countries, industries, and companies, according to the latest update to the IDCCOVID-19 Tech Index. Overall sentiment in the US has dropped in the past two weeks, as businesses adjust to bearish GDP forecasts for Q2, and confidence remains soft in Europe. There are tentative signs of … Read more
AU Optronics Corp. announces that in order to advance the Company’s value transformation strategy, AUO’s Board of Directors resolved yesterday to demerge AUO’s General Display and Public Information Display businesses to Da Qing Corporation (“Da Qing”), an entity wholly owned by AUO. This is to enable the two business units to possess more agility for … Read more
A team of researchers headed by Hayato Watanabe within the Science and Technology Research Laboratories at NHK (Tokyo, Japan) is developing a novel lightfield based 3D TV system. The display is reported as producing an image that has both horizontal and vertical parallax and does so with reduced crosstalk as compared to other lightfield approaches. … Read more
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