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ISE Short on Wi-Fi and Excitement, but Busy

by Bob Raikes

Thanks to the publishing team for getting so much done to the issue while I was at ISE and looking at the bright side, the long delay to my flight home and the time …

Tags:Editorial| ISE 2018| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 05

The Smartphone Market at an Inflection Point

by Bob Raikes

We’ve been trying to clear the decks, finalising some bits and pieces from CES, getting the BETT report done and trying to get ahead for ISE next week. This is one of our biggest …

Tags:Apple| Editorial| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 04

QDs Don’t Disappoint at CES

by Bob Raikes

Sorry for the overload this week – we (almost) finished our CES report and Matt made a thorough report on the big retail show in New York. We have a few stories from CES …

Tags:CES 2018| Corning| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| Vol 25 - Issue 03

Don’t Bet Against the Engineers!

by Bob Raikes

We’re back from CES and have been frantically trying to catch up – it seems that the rest of the world doesn’t stop just because the technology press and channels are in Las Vegas! …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES 2018| Editorial| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 02

Fake News and CES

by Bob Raikes

We managed to get our first issue of the year finished on time and we’re heading off to CES. Even with four of us, it’s hard to cover everything. Because of the overload, we …

Tags:CES 2018| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Newsletters| Vol 25 - Issue 01

Looking Back at 2017

by Bob Raikes

It was clear this week that things were already slowing down towards the holiday period and we have some shorter issues this week. Usually, CES is coming up just after the New Year festivities, …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 48

Having Enough Scale…

by Bob Raikes

The big business story this week is only obliquely related to displays, but I thought it was interesting. I’m referring to the deal for Disney to buy Twenty-First Century Fox Inc which will give …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 47

Looking Ahead to CES

by Bob Raikes

Ever had one of those weeks? It started well, with a number of catch up jobs done, and by the middle of the week, I could see space to do some ‘ought to do’ …

Tags:CES 2018| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 46

Have we Reached “Peak CE Stuff”?

by Bob Raikes

There weren’t any really big stories this week, but lots of data on the smartphone market in MDM as well as forecasts for computing devices. All of the forecasts are conservative even though they …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Macroeconomics| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 45

So When do We See a $25 32″ TV on Black Friday?

by Bob Raikes

We made a decision not to get too obsessed with the details of all the offers that were seen on Black Friday this year. There are lots of amazing deals, not least from Samsung, …

Tags:Black Friday| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Thanks for the Memory

by Bob Raikes

We were flat out this week as we were finalising our market data for Q3 at the same time as we created this week’s issues, so there has been little time to sit back …

Tags:Editorial| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 43

You Gotta Have Soft Eyes….

by Bob Raikes

Two of the most interesting stories this week are about semiconductors as Intel crosses the rubicon by agreeing a deal to buy GPUs from AMD to integrate with its CPUs. Broadcom is trying to …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 42