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SID Buzzes and is Up – Again!

by Bob Raikes

The SID was a good event, again, this year, with a boost of 7% on attendance – a function of the location, we suspect, and the increased marketing activity. We heard numbers were up …

E Ink Goes Flex and Full Color at Display Week

by Steve Sechrist

At Display Week 2016, E Ink showed its new 32-inch flexible display that weighs in at a remarkable sub-150 grams, (yes less than 6 ounces or the weight of 8 UK pennies.) The new …

IHS Says Smart Watches to Dominate Wearables

by Steve Sechrist

Placing a bet on wearables? Look no further than the smartwatch category, which will dominate the display revenue space going forward, according to the latest IHS data presented at Display Week 2016 business conference. …

Canatu and E Ink Work on Wearables

by Tom Allen

Canatu and E Ink are working together to produce flexible touch displays for wearables. The first product, combining a 6.3″ E Ink EPD with Canatu’s One-Plastic (OPS) Touch, will be available in July. The …

BOE Shows a Wide Range of Panels

by Bob Raikes

BOE has gradually been boosting its marketing around the world and had a good array of different panels for a range of applications this year. although CSOT of China, which came to San Jose …

Samsung Back at SID – but ‘No Meetings’

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display was missed at the SID event last year (it was concentrating on promoting its branded products last year, rather than components, we heard), so we were pleased to see the company back …

SID Showfloor Round Up

by Bob Raikes

3M was showing a 31″ 2560 x 1440 monitor reference design that supports 94% of the Rec 2020 using the company’s QD-based QDEF film in an edge-lit configuration and using an optimised DBEF. Brightness …

KN3 OLEDs are the Only Viable Future Technology – Samsung

by Bob Raikes

The third keynote was by Sun-Chul Kim who is Exective VP and Chief of the Research Center of Samsung Display and his topic was ‘AMOLED Technical Issues and Forecasts’ He started with a discussion …

BC3 Smartphones Looking for Growth

by Bob Raikes

Vinita Jakhanwal is from IHS and she spoke about smartphones – nobody can live without them these days, she said. However, the smartphone market is showing saturation with only around 1% growth this year. …

A New Look for Merck/EMD

by Ken Werner

Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany and its North American branch, EMD Performance Materials, showed off their new logos and design language at SID Display Week for the first time. The look, startlingly, is more “Age …

Tags:Cholesteric| Flexible Displays| Merck| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 20

SID: Colour E Ink, Flexible AMOLEDs, New QDs – and More!

by Tom Allen

SID 2016 is ongoing at the time of writing, and we will have a full report for you in the coming weeks. For now, we have summarised some of the key announcements from the …

OLED Display – Will it be able to Help Apple?

by Sweta Dash

Apple Corporation reported its first-ever decline in iPhone sales in its recent fiscal quarter (Apple’s 13-Year Growth Grinds to a Halt – subscription required). Its iPhone sales accounted for two third of company’s revenue …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| OLEDs| Samsung Display| Vol 23 - Issue 19