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Taiwan’s Older-Gen LCD Lines to Focus on Automotive Sector

by Andrew Fenn

Digitimes reports that, as newer-generation LCD production lines commence mass production and older-generation fabs in Korea begin to shut down, Taiwan’s 4–7.5G facilities will continue to operate, shifting their attention towards automotive applications. Digitimes …

Tags:Automotive| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 25 - Issue 27

New Audi Concept Car Features 7″ OLED Virtual Wing Mirrors

by Andrew Fenn

Audi’s new e-tron EV crossover concept car features 7″ OLED virtual side mirrors connected to external cameras, in place of conventional wing mirrors. The car maker says that the system features adjustable zoom and …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 26

Peerless Extends XBrite Range – Happy about Electric Vehicles

by Bob Raikes

Peerless started by showing us its Xtreme range of high brightness displays which extend from the Xtreme TVs that we reported on last year. The range now includes 43″/49″/55″ and (later) 65″ with FullHD …

Tianma Impressive as Usual

by Bob Raikes

Tianma had its usual long list of developments in a range of different industrial and specialist applications. The first product that we looked at was a circular display designed for automotive and other instrumentation …

JDI May Have Commercial Problems, but has Technical Highlights

by Bob Raikes

JDI always has an impressive range of displays both in terms of technology and also in applications. Although the company has had some serious financial issues because of its over-reliance on a small number …

IHS: Automotive Displays Expected to Maintain Healthy Growth in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

The global demand for automotive display systems is expected to continue a strong growth path in 2018, according to a recent report from IHS Markit. OEM production of the three primary automotive display systems …

Tags:Automotive| IHS Markit| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 24

Samsung Highlights Flexible OLEDs and Light Fields

by Bob Raikes

Once again, Samsung Display showed a couple of light field displays which we have reported on in a separate article (3D Display Round up). As in recent years, Samsung did not give interviews to …

BOE Overloads us with 8K, Flexible OLEDs and MiniLEDs

by Bob Raikes

BOE had too much to report, again! No doubt we missed some points. We found that staff were not able to give much detail beyond what was on the labels of the products, which …

Automotive Display Shipments Reached 148m in 2017

by Barry Young

Automotive display panels totalled ~148m units last year and unit volumes are expected to grow to ~170m units this year, but with displays ranging in size from 1.5” to 20+”, it is difficult to …

Tags:Automotive| Forecasts| Market Data| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Augmented Reality is Big, Just Not in Headsets

by Norbert Hildebrand

When Google Glass was announced, the idea was more about what we could do with this technology rather than what we can use this technology for. As a consequence Google announced an explorer program …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Vol 25 - Issue 24

Uber Files AI Tech Patent for Flagging Drunk Passengers

by Andrew Fenn

It’s no surprise that a significant proportion of Uber’s business occurs in the small hours of the morning, ferrying party-goers home after a night ‘on the sauce’. However, the company is moving to protect …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| Big Data/AI| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 23

Canatu Teams Up with Continental on Automotive 3D Touch Technology

by Andrew Fenn

Canatu has announced a collaboration with automotive technology company, Continental. The two firms have been working on a transparent, 3D touch surface for automotive interior displays, using Canatu’s CNB films and sensors. The tech …