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AUO Optimistic about LTPS Automotive Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported on the automotive market for displays and spoke to AUO which said that it is basing a lot of new projects in that sector on LTPS backplanes. The site …

Tags:AUO| Automotive| LCD displays| LTPS TFT| Market Data| Pricing

Autonomous Vehicles – Another Enabler In Sight

by Bob Raikes

Today, I’m going to talk about something that’s not directly a display topic, but is a potentially significant display use case. That is to say, autonomous vehicles, and, in particular, cars. If your interest …

Tags:Automotive| Legislation

BMW Expands MyModes Interfaces

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Among the items announced by BMW at CES, there was a boost in the number of different interfaces for its BMW My Modes system. There are now five settings, up from …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2022| Software

150 million Fire TV devices sold by Amazon

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Amazon said that it and its partners have shipped more than 150 million devices based on the Fire TV OS since 2014. It revealed this in its quarterly earnings statement and …

Tags:Amazon| Automotive| Operating Systems| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video

RealD Looks at Entertainment on the Move

by Bob Raikes

I tend to think of RealD as a supplier of cinema technology in display or image processing, although it also has other technologies. I remember seeing a cool idea for changing the apparent direction …

Tags:Automotive| Dual Panel LCDs| Privacy| RealD

LGD Adds Some Detail to Financials

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display published its results for Q4 2021 (LG Display Reports Fourth Quarter 2021 Results) and also held an earnings call to give more detail. The call started with a look …

Tags:Automotive| Financial Data| Large LCD Supply| LG Displays (LGD)| Market Data| OLEDs

Links Week Ending 21st January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. (quite a few this week as we …

Tags:Advertising| Automotive| Blu-ray| Covid-19| CPUs| Events| Mediatek| Mergers & Acquisitions| PCs| Roku| Smart TV| Streaming Video| Vizio| Wi-Fi

Sigmaintell Sees Big Boost in Automotive Display Sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although there have been lots of reports of problems in chip supply for the automotive industry, the display industry grew well in Q3 of 2021 reaching 41.85 million units, equivalent to …

Tags:Automotive| Forecasts| LTPS TFT| Market Data

 Panasonic showed off the 2.0 version of its AR windscreen display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At CES, Panasonic Automotive showed version 2.0 of its AR HUD that includes an eye-tracking system that identifies the individual driver’s height and head movement behind the wheel and dynamically adjusts …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2022| Gaze Recognition| Panasonic

BMW Covers a Car with E Ink

by Bob Raikes

What They Say BMW showed a demonstration of a car wrapped in E Ink film. The film was laser cut to be applied to the car. There are static images (using no power after …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2022| E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)