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Primary Automotive Display Systems Market will reach $11.6 billion this Year

by Alan Spencer

According to IHS Markit, the primary automotive display systems market will reach $11.6 billion in tier one supplier revenue globally this year. The most valuable are the centre stack displays and instrument cluster displays, …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 17

VR and the Future of Car Design

by Isaac Oburu

World leading design and innovation company Seymourpowell will be unveiling the new ways they’re using Virtual Reality (VR) to design cars at this year’s London Motor Show, from 4th – 7th May. They’ve developed …

Tags:Automotive| Virtual Reality

Bentley Uses an OLED in Electric Concept

by Bob Raikes

Bentley has shown a new concept car, the Exp 12 speed 6e, at the Geneva Motor show, that includes a centre console that includes a high definition curved OLED display. The car has ‘copper …

Tags:Automotive| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Epsilon Car Stereo has Dual Displays

by Bob Raikes

Epsilon Electronics has developed a new dual screen car stereo system, the VRN-DD7HB. The system includes dual PCap touch LCDs, each with 7″ 800 x 480 resolution. One of the displays can act as …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Genesis Concept Uses 22″ OLED

by Bob Raikes

Genesis USA (Hyundai’s high end sub-brand) has shown a new concept car that includes a 22″ curved display OLED ‘infinity’ display. The display is divided into two zones – one for the driver and …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Audi Uses LEDs in Concept Car – and OLEDs?

by Bob Raikes

Audi has released some images of a new concept GT e-Tron Sportback with a 320kW electric drive and using LEDs and OLEDs. The concept will be shown at the Shanghai motor show. There are …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Holst Puts Touch and OLEDs into Plastic Mould

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, the Holst Centre in the Netherlands released information about a demonstration car centre console that it has made based on ‘In-mold electronics’ or IME and with space for storage …

Tags:Automotive| Holst Centre| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 15

CE Companies Move Away from CE

by Bob Raikes

Our front page story this week is about Toshiba and its travails. It’s not the first of the big Japanese CE companies to get into trouble, most of them have been in trouble over …

Tags:Automotive| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Samsung| toshiba| Vol 24 - Issue 14

DFF Automotive Meeting is in Munich

by Bob Raikes

The DFF is running an event in its Automotive Display Platform series on April 27th in Munich. The meeting will be hosted by Instrument Systems GmbH, a Konica Minolta company. You can download the …

Tags:Automotive| Back Panel| Events| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 14

CE Firms Look into Automotive

by Bob Raikes

While Panasonic has decided to boost its share in Ficosa, a Spanish automotive company, from 49% to 69% to take control and operate the company as a subsidiary, Samsung Electronics, having already bought Harman, …

Tags:Automotive| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Vol 24 - Issue 14

Zecotek Says Interest in HUDs

by Bob Raikes

Zecotek Photonics Inc. of Singapore, a developer of said that that another major European automobile manufacturer has expressed interest in integrating Zecotek’s 3D technology into a brand specific 3D head-up display (HUD) and entertainment …

Tags:Automotive| Autostereo 3D| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 13| Volumetric Displays

Vehicular Displays and SID Display Week

by Ken Werner

As I write this, OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and university researchers are reimagining the automobile. Those reimaginings include a wide variety of displays, including displays that do not yet exist. Already an important market …

Tags:Automotive| SID Display Week 2017| Vol 24 - Issue 12