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BOE’s iPhone OLED production problems to continue up to May

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reported that BOE is continuing to have supply problems with OLEDs for iPhones as it has had challenges in getting enough display driver supply. The blog said that both …

Tags:BOE| Display Drivers| LG Displays (LGD)| Supply Chain

Magnachip Adds Driver for OLED TVs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magnachips said that it has a new DDIC for OLED TVs, adding to its OLED support after the company introduced chips for smartphones. (Magnachip Enters Full-Scale Mass Production of High Frame …

Tags:Display Drivers| Financial Data| OLED TVs

BOE Hits Driver Block

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reports that BOE has had to reduce its shipments of OLEDs to Apple because of a shortage of driver chips which it is said to be buying from LX …

Tags:BOE| Display Drivers| Semiconductors

Macroblock Talks Up Virtual Production and MiniLED

by Bob Raikes

Macroblock is always an interesting company to engage with as the firm has a dominant position in the supply of driver chips for LED direct view displays around the world. It also supplies drivers …

Ross Young’s 2022 Outlook Blog

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A week or so ago, I covered Ross Young’s recent overview of the OLED industry (Real Decisions Over OLED To Guide Industry to 2026), so I didn’t cover another blog article …

Q&A with Sapien

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MicroLED Info interviewed Sapien Semiconductors, a Korean fabless chip company that designs PWM backplane and drivers for microLEDs. The company was founded in 2017 and claims a lot of depth and …

Tags:Display Drivers| LED Drivers| MicroLED| MiniLED

Samsung System LSI begins development of 3 T-Con for QD-OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung System LSI is developing three TCons for QD-OLED displays that Samsung Display is planning to launch for: a 4K QD-OLED TV, a 8K QD-OLED TV and …

Tags:Display Drivers| QD OLEDs| Samsung| Semiconductors

Apple to Launch a Foldable Phone Using AgNW in 2023

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is reported by MacRumors.com as saying that Apple is planning an 8″ QHD+ flexible OLED-based folding smartphone in 2023. Samsung is likely to be the exclusive …

Macroblock launches miniLED backlighting driver ICs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Macroblock said at Touch Taiwan that it was highlighting its drivers for miniLED backlights. The 65″ TV that the firm showed had 1,152 dimming zones and can reach the 1,000 cd/m² …

Tags:Display Drivers| LCD Backlights| LED Drivers| MiniLED

Automotive Market & Display Drivers From Sigmaintell

by Bob Raikes

Today, I’m covering two separate topics that are combined only because talks on the topics formed the second half of the Sigmaintell/SID China event that I attended a couple of weeks ago. I reported …

Tags:Automotive| China| Display Drivers| Forecasts| Market Data

Samsung Doesn’t Want to Explain its Drivers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on a release by Samsung that talked about new miniLED driving chips, the S6LP441 and S6LDMB1. (Samsung Promotes new MiniLED Controller Architecture). The chips are not listed on the …

Tags:Display Drivers| Semiconductors

BOE and Himax Announce an Electric Vehicle Design Win

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Himax Technologies and BOE Varitronix put out a press release saying that they had collaborated to “secure a flexible AMOLED automotive display solution design-win with a leading new energy vehicle (“NEV”) …

Tags:Automotive| BOE| Display Drivers| Optics