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Continental Announces Widescreen Display for New Mercedes E-Class

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a new press release, Continental announced a display concept for the new Mercedes E-Class. As a matter of fact the concept does not only include one, but two widescreen displays that seamlessly form …

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Apple Confirms Work on Autonomous Cars

by Bob Raikes

Apple has written to US transport regulators to express its interest in the development of testing rules for autonomous cars and asking that “established manufacturers and new entrants should be treated equally.” Analyst Comment …

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Panasonic Recognises Renesas With Three Awards

by Yvette Raikes

Renesas became the first supplier to receive all three of Panasonic’s awards at its Excellent Partners Meeting. Renesas was named as Best Partner, as well as receiving the Contribution to Technology Development award of …

Automotive AR-HUD: Promises and Dangers

by Norbert Hildebrand

Head Up Display (HUD) systems in automobiles and augmented reality glasses are moving to some form of conversion if we look at the recent press releases form several large automotive companies. In general, we …

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Initiative for Auto LED Lighting

by Bob Raikes

We don’t cover lighting, but we noted a report on a new initiative, the IseLED Alliance, that is working to support full colour lighting in automotive applications. The Alliance consists of Inova Semiconductors, Dominant …

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BOE’s Varitronix Has Free Form Display for Automotive – Gets to 1600ppi!

by Bob Raikes

Chinese panel maker, BOE was at the show with its European business, Varitronix, which is long established in the European automotive business and was bought by BOE in May of this year to give …

Kyocera Experiments with Haptics & Gesture for Autos

by Bob Raikes

Kyocera started by showing us a demonstration of an ASIC that it has developed to allow haptic feedback, using piezoelectric actuators. Especially in automotive and industrial applications, it is important that the user has …

Osram Concentrates on Automotive and HUD LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Osram is a successful local supplier of LEDs that is doing well in the market at the moment. It had a big booth that was mostly about applications other than displays. The first application …

ITRI Introduces an Innovative Automotive HUD

by Arthur Berman

The Smart Microsystems Technology Center at ITRI (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has developed a so-called Long-Distance Floating Multi-Screen Head-up Display for automotive applications. First, a few words of background on the reasons why ITRI felt that …

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VW Will Include AR HUD in Electric Vehicle

by Norbert Hildebrand

During the Paris Autoshow, VW introduced its future electric car, the VW I.D. In an article Autocar, reported on an interview with chief VW designer Klaus Bischoff and their development of this new electric …

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Road to Connected Car Runs Through Samsung

by Steve Sechrist

Samsung Electronics made an $8B (all cash) tender offer to acquire US based Harman International Industries, Inc., a leading auto system integrator with a heavy focus on business to business (B to B) IoT …

Samsung Buys Harman for $8 bn

by Bob Raikes

Samsung bought Harman, which specialises in technology for connected cars. It is paying $8 billion in cash for the business. Analyst Comment Steve covered this story in a Display Daily Road to Connected Car …

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