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Apple Supplier in Rights Group’s Sights

by Tom Allen

A Hong Kong-based labour rights group has accused an Apple supplier of exploiting its factory workers. Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) has said that Lens Technology used forced overtime, withheld wages and …

Tags:Apple| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 39| Working Conditions

Competition Rises in 43″ Panel Supply

by Milos Pavlovic

Sources in the panel maker supply chain have said that Chinese makers are to raise their 43″ TV panel production. This size is currently dominated by AUO and LG Display; however, it is reported …

Tags:AUO| BOE| China| CSOT| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| LG Displays (LGD)| Samsung| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 39

Microsoft Enters China With Baidu

by Tom Allen

Microsoft is working with Baidu to launch Windows 10 in China. Baidu will replace Bing as the operating system’s default search engine in the country. It marks a significant change from the government’s previous …

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 39| Windows

Meizu Uses AMOLED in Pro 5

by Bob Raikes

Meizu of China has adopted a 5.7″ FullHD AMOLED (reported to be from Samsung) with Gorilla Glass 3 into its latest Pro 5 phone. The device has an octa-core (Samsung’s Exynos 7420 SoC) CPU, …

Tags:AMOLED| China| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 38

China LED Consolidates

by Bob Raikes

Reports from LEDinside (http://tinyurl.com/pzpxpqz) say that the Chinese LED packaging market is about to consolidate as growth is lower than been hoped and because companies have “huge war chests”.

Tags:China| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 38

Xiaomi Aims 4c at China

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has launched a new mid-level smartphone, the 4c, for the Chinese market. It has a 5.0″ FullHD IPS LCD (441 ppi) with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor. Memory is 2GB/16GB or 3GB/32GB, there’s …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 38| Xiaomi

Tour China from Times Square

by Bob Raikes

The “Experience Day of Beautiful China” global tour event, hosted by the China Intercontinental Communication Center (CICC), officially opened at the Thomson Reuters building in New York’s Times Square last week. The experience used …

Tags:3D| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 38

EDO Claims Chinese First With Flexible AMOLED

by Tom Allen

Everdisplay Optronics (EDO) has shown a 5.6″ flexible AMOLED display, with 2560 x 1440 resolution (525 ppi), in China. The company says that it is ‘committed to leading-edge display technology’.

Tags:AMOLED| China| Everdisplay| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

EDO Turns on a 5.6″ WQHD Flexible AMOLED Panel

by Helen Vince

EDO turns on its 5.6″ WQHD flexible AMOLED panel this week. WQHD stands for a 2560×1440 resolution with 525 PPI. It leads AMOLED and flexible technologies in China. Flexible AMOLED display is becoming the …

Tags:AMOLED| China| Everdisplay

The Panel Market is Still Developing says Tamura

by Bob Raikes

Tamura-san is from IHS and looked at the development of the panel industry. China is the biggest market for TVs (23% of global) and phones (33% of global) and that means that success in …

Tags:China| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| TV Set Market| Vol 22 - Issue 36

China is More than Just a Factory

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray opened the sixth IHS (used to be DisplaySearch) conference and there was a message of support from Dirk Koslowski of IFA. Morrod of IHSThe first keynote was from Tom Morrod whose topic …

Tags:China| IFA 2015| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36