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China’s Luxshare builds iPhone mega-plant to challenge Foxconn

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Luxshare of China is building a ‘massive manufacturing complex’ in eastern China to break the hold of Pegatron and Foxconn have had on iPhone assembly. The factory will …

Tags:Apple| China| iPhone| ODMs & OEMs

B&W Teams with Formovie

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The UK-based audio specialist Bowers & Wilkins sent us a press release (BW_Formovie.pdf) to say that it has done a deal with Formovie, a Chinese company founded by Xiaomi and Appotronics, …

Tags:audio| China| Laser Phosphor Projectors| UST Projectors

LeTV Restores Employee Benefits

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Caixin Chinese news source reports that LeTV, which hit really difficult financial conditions in the past (LeEco Still Struggling to Survive and LeEco Brags about its Debt), has decided to …

Tags:China| Reorganisation & Restructuring| TVs (TV Sets)

Oppo announces the Air Glass monocle AR device

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oppo has a new “limited release” product, called the Air Glass, which is a monocle AR device based on a ‘self-developed’ microLED-base projector called the Spark. The image is presented to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Microdisplays| MicroLED

Collapse of the Lira & Chinese Property Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Turkish lira plummeted by 7% in a single night this week against the US dollar. Analysts are deeply sceptical about the policy of Turkey’s President Erdogan. The currency is around …

Tags:China| Europe| Macroeconomics

Flexible-screen Maker Royole Delays Employee Salaries

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Caixin reported that Chinese flexible OLED maker, Royole Corp, has been delaying paying staff salaries after withdrawing its IPO planned for earlier this year. Staff were told that the pay due …

Tags:China| Financial Data| OLEDs

MicroLED microdisplay developer RaySolve raises $10 million

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A Hong Kong-based microLED microdisplay developer, Raysolve Technology said that it has raised $10 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its R&D to early production. In the last six …

Tags:China| Investment| Microdisplays| MicroLED

Sigmaintell Looks at Smartphone Panels in Q3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sigmaintell has reported that smartphone panel shipments dropped 6.5% year on year to 475 million in Q3, although YTD volumes are up 7.9% to 1.425 billion. OLED has boomed based on …

Tags:China| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphone Market

China’s ‘Singles Day’ Shopping Event is Muted

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Although spending still grew to a record level ($84.5 billion for Alibaba and up to $160 billion overall) and up 8% on last year, reports from China say that growth in …

Tags:China| Retail

China’s Smartphone Market Dropped 4.7% in 3Q21 as Soft Demand Remained a Headwind, IDC Reports

by Artem Alekseenko

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, 80.8 million smartphones were shipped in China in 3Q21, down 4.7% year-on-year (YoY). The decline was the result of higher average selling prices and a …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| China| IDC| Smartphone Market

E Ink Co-Develops Paper Like Display Standard with TÜV Rheinland and Receives World’s First Paper Like Display Certification

by Bob Raikes

E Ink Holdings, the originator, pioneer, and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, announced their “Paper Like Display” certification for E Ink Kaleido™ Plus, its color ePaper display module, presented by TÜV Rheinland …

Tags:Certification| China| E Ink

Covid First – Then Chips – Now Electricity is Supply Chain Challenge in China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC published a blog article that highlighted electricity shortages in China. Last week, new restrictions were put in place on electricity use as part of a move to reduce coal usage …

Tags:China| Supply Chain