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Samsung and Apple Report Good Results

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Samsung reported profits of $8.45 billion on sales of $59 billion in Q1 2021. Solid sales of smartphones and consumer electronics outweighed lower earnings from semiconductors and displays. The display business …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| Samsung

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Apple With Backlight Supply Chain Challenge

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported rumours that Apple may have had problems with supply of its new miniLED XDR display-based iPad Pro because of low yield from TSMT. Separately, Trendforce identified Yenrich as …

Tags:Apple| iPad| MiniLED| tablets

Apple Commits $430 Billion in US Investments Over Five Years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple said that it planned to invest $430 billion in the US over the next five years and committed to build a new North Carolina Campus in the Research Triangle Area. …

Tags:Apple| Investment| R&D (Research & Development)| USA

Apple Wins a Patent for ‘Thermal Touch’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Patently Apple blog reported that Apple has got a patent for ‘thermal touch’ based on using data from infrared sensors. The technology is reported to be based on work done …

Tags:Apple| Patents| R&D (Research & Development)| Touch

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LG Display to supply more OLED panels to Apple for iPhones in 2021

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Quoting data from Omdia, The Elec in Korea reported that Apple will see a boost of 47.6% in iPhone shipments this year, to 169 million from 114.5 million. The suppliers of …

Tags:Apple| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| OLEDs| Samsung| Samsung Display| Small Medium Panel Supply

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Apple Brings XDR MiniLED Technology to the iPad

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Apple held an event to launch a number of non-iPhone (mainly) products that featured: New iPad Pros with a miniLED ‘Liquid Retina XDR’ display and using its own M1 chip A …

Tags:All-in-ones (AIOs)| Apple| HDR - High Dynamic Range| MiniLED| Streaming Dongles| tablets

Apple removes claim that its Pro Display XDR goes ‘far beyond HDR’ in the UK

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DPReview (my favourite photography technology site) reports that Apple in the UK has been forced by the ASA (advertising authority) to withdraw a claim that the display goes ‘Far Beyond HDR’ …

Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Litigation| Measurement| UK (United Kingdom)

Apple Headset May Have 15 Cameras

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Phone Arena reported that Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple will use an under-display Face ID sensor in 2023, which will eliminate the ‘notch’ in Apple’s display. He has also …

Tags:Apple| Cameras| iPhone| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

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DSCC Highlights LTPO and High Refresh in Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an information dense blog post, DSCC picked out some highlights from its most recent report on ‘Advanced Smartphones’. It highlights the trend to higher refresh rates, which have developed from …

Tags:Apple| LTPO TFT| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)

Apple to Make Combined TV STB + Smart Speaker

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple is planning a new box that would combine the functions of the Apple TV STB and Homepod smart speaker and add a camera to enable videoconferencing with a connected TV, …

Tags:Apple| Voice Input