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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 …

Tags:Display Drivers| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LCD Backlights| LED Drivers| MiniLED| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Virtual Sets

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 …

Tags:Apple| Display Drivers| Forecasts| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Pricing| Supply Chain| Under-Display Cameras| Virtual Reality

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

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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 …

Tags:Apple| Cambrios| Display Drivers| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| iPhone| Samsung Display| Silver Nanowire| Touch| TPK

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

Samsung raises quotes for rigid AMOLED panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported that Samsung has raised pricing for its rigid AMOLED panels by 5% to 8% because of driver supply issues. Samsung is yet to resume production in Austin after the …

Tags:Display Drivers| OLEDs| Pricing| Samsung Display

Sigmaintell Forecasts Driver Chips Market as Flat

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Chinese analyst, Sigmaintell said that the global market for display drivers grew by about 5% in 2020, with 7.8 billion devices sold, driven by strong demand for IT panels for monitors, …

Tags:Display Drivers| Market Data| Semiconductors

DDI Shortage Helping Monitor Panel Allocations

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Trendforce reported that a shortage of display driver chips is driving LCD makers to focus on monitor and notebook panels, which are more profitable than TV panels and larger TV panels, …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Display Drivers| Large LCD Supply