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US PC Shipments Decline, Tablet Market Growth Stalls

by Emory Kale

PC shipments in the US experienced a significant decline in Q4 2022, with a 23% drop year on year to 16.1 million units. This decrease in demand has been attributed to high inflation and …

Tags:Apple| Microsoft| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Samsung| tablets| TCL

Apple Leaking Like a Sieve Over Mixed Reality Headset Plans

by Omid Rahmat

The vision for an Apple mixed reality headset may have its origin in its famed design department under Jon Ivey. Since then it’s been nothing but hype and leaks, with a level of uncharacteristic …

Tags:Apple| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality

The Fallacy of Apple’s High OLED Costs

by Omid Rahmat

With a display-centric mindset, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the manufacturing costs of OLEDs are going to cause price rises in Apple’s products. That may be true to some extent—Apple doesn’t shy away …

Tags:Apple| iPad| LG Display| OLED| Samsung Display

BOE Confirmed to Supply LTPO OLEDs for Apple From Mianyang

by Omid Rahmat

BOE has long been transitioning from LTPS technology to LTPO technology in its B7, B11, and B12 factory production lines. It may now have the confirmation that it will be giving Samsung a run …

Tags:Apple| BOE| LTPO TFT| OLED

Apple Unhappy About Needing Samsung Displays

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung so distrusts Apple—which is on a quest to find alternatives to Samsung’s displays—that it bars Apple engineers from Samsung factories, according to multiple former Apple employees. In one incident in 2017, Apple engineers …

Tags:Apple| OLEDs| Samsung

Keep Your Good Eye on Pixelworks’ X7 Visual Processor

by Omid Rahmat

Pixelworks has been getting some design wins for its V7 visual processor. The chipset is incorporated in the OnePlus Ace 2 and it may have helped the newly released Honor Magic5 Pro take Apple’s …

Tags:Apple| DXOMARK| Pixelworks| Smartphones

Samsung Testing Reliability of Waterdrop Hinge for Galaxy Z Fold 5

by Omid Rahmat

The bend, the crease, the fold, that’s where the real battle for foldable displays is happening. There are three components to the foldable display: the flexible panel, the mechanical hinge, and the display surface. …

Tags:Apple| Foldable Devices| OLED| Patents| Samsung| Xiaomi