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Gartner Says Worldwide Smartphone Sales to Grow 11% in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Gartner forecast that the smartphone market will grow 11.4% to 1.5 billion units in 2021 with 5G penetration getting to 35%. Mature Asia Pacific, Western Europe, and Latin America are expected …

Tags:Forecasts| Gartner| Smartphone Market

Notebooks Hit Record High Sales in 2020

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes Research (DR) said that global notebook shipments reached 60 million units in Q4 2020, up 10% sequentially and bringing annual sales to 201 million units, up 25%. The analyst expects …

Tags:Dell| Forecasts| HP Inc| Lenovo| Market Data| Notebooks

Links Round-up Week Starting 25th Jan 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Panasonic Drops Out of InfoComm 2021 Gartner …

Tags:Consoles| Forecasts| Gartner| HDR - High Dynamic Range| LED| Market Data| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Outdoor Displays| Panasonic

Pay TV Subscribers in Africa to Exceed 50 Million by 2026

by Artem Alekseenko

Nearly 17 million pay TV subscribers will be added in Africa between 2020 and 2026 to take the total to 51 million. Nigeria will be close to 11 million, with South Africa bringing in …

Tags:Forecasts| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Pay TV

Ten Predictions for the Display Industry in 2021

by Bob O'Brien

To start off 2021, I will continue a tradition started two years ago of laying out some predictions for the year. I consulted with my DSCC colleagues for both topics of interest and for …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Duty| Foldable Devices| Forecasts| Glass| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Microdisplays| MicroLED| MiniLED| OLED Materials| OLEDs| Pricing| Taiwan| TVs (TV Sets)| Virtual Reality

OTT TV and Video Subscriptions to Reach 2 billion by 2025

by Artem Alekseenko

A new report by Juniper Research has found that there will be nearly 2 billion active subscriptions to on-demand video services in 2025; a 65% increase over the end of 2020. The primary engine …

Tags:Forecasts| OTT Video

Global LED Demand Set to Rebound in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Trendforce put out a forecast for revenues from the LED industry, which the firm expects to grow by 3.8% to $15.7 billion in 2021. The firm said that LED backlighting had …

Tags:Forecasts| LED| Market Data| MiniLED

What comes after smartphones?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The interesting Benedict Evans, who publishes a general technology email (freemium model) that included this week an interesting article that discusses ‘What comes after smartphones’. He takes a very generalised view …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

Deloitte Also Predicts XR Developments

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Earlier this week we carried a forecast from Deloitte about 8K. After publication we realised that we had missed the firm’s predictions for VR and XR. We also found that the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data| Mixed Reality| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Virtual Reality