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Challenges in the Public Display Market

by Bob Raikes

It’s been a very busy week at our company as we finalised our quarterly data for the Public Display and Desktop monitor markets and Tom was at a UK TV event, as well as …

Tags:Editorial| Europe| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 18

The Future for Large OLED

by Bob Raikes

We had a short week after a public holiday on Monday. We were working on the report from the IdTechEx event in Berlin, but didn’t get it finished because of the restricted time. We’ll …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Osram| Quantum Dots| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Panel ASPs Hit the Bottom

by Bob Raikes

This week we have the NAB report as a separate issue to add to our newsletter, with lots of news on HDR and some interesting explanation of the importance of the ATSC 3.0 developments. …

Tags:AUO| Display Supply & Demand| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 16

Great Video & IP Battles

by Bob Raikes

We have plenty of news for you this week. We’ve included the items from last week’s Cinemacon and we are publishing our NAB stories as we go along on the website. We’ll have the …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanoco| Nanosys| Vol 23 - Issue 15

The End of More Glass and Vacuum Technologies

by Bob Raikes

I made reference in my talk at the Nuremberg conference to Paul Gray’s “end of glass, vacuum and metal” (GVM) technology and over the last couple of weeks, I have seen lots of stories …

Tags:CRT| Editorial| Lamps| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Laser Projectors| Light Sources & Lamps| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 14

Happy Birthday to Apple

by Bob Raikes

I spotted last week that Apple was forty years old just a week or so ago – which took me back to my early computing days. I became a home computer enthusiast when I …

Tags:Apple| Editorial| Gaze Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 13

Sharp & Foxconn Tie the Knot

by Bob Raikes

So, Sharp & Foxconn have finally tied the knot. There is some logic to the deal as Sharp gets access to a vertical customer for its small panel business in particular and Foxconn gets …

Tags:Editorial| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 12

The End of Moore’s Law?

by Bob Raikes

Well, last week, I was going to write my editorial about chips and “the end of Moore’s Law”, but I started and it turned out to be something else! Now it seems doubly appropriate, …

Tags:Chip Technology| Editorial| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 11

Does Thunderbolt 3 Allow a New Class of Displays?

by Bob Raikes

We have more events to report on this week with the show report from the Retail DSE in Large Display Monitor and with our CeBIT report in both newsletters. We were also at PTE …

Tags:Editorial| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Display Growth in Pockets

by Bob Raikes

Our front page this week includes the data from IHS on the weak growth in the value of the LCD market. With sluggish or negative revenue growth in the big display-using businesses of TVs, …

Tags:Editorial| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 09

Something New Needed at MWC.

by Bob Raikes

Ever had one of those mornings? I got back from the ECR (radiology event – for medical monitors – report next week) in Vienna late last night and got up early, as is my …

Tags:Editorial| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 08

More Thoughts on Sharp and Foxconn

by Bob Raikes

Well, is the Sharp deal on or off? That was the question that I was pondering last night as I returned from MWC and the Electronic Display/Embedded World event in Nuremberg. As I write, …

Tags:Editorial| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| sharp| Vol 23 - Issue 07