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Wisconsin Denies Foxconn Tax Subsidies

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Verge published a detailed report on the failure of the planned Foxconn LCD fab in Wisconsin. The company’s application for subsidies has been rejected as the number of employees was …

Tags:Investment| LCD Fabs| USA

Aledia Accelerating microLED Execution

by Bob Raikes

In 2017, we published a couple of articles about French start-up Aledia, after a talk at the SID Investor Conference and following a trip to the LETI Research Centre in Grenoble. Recently, the company …

Tags:France| Investment| Microdisplays| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)

LCD vs OLED – A Capital Topic!

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, I read an editorial from DSCC’s Bob O’Brien that talked about OLED vs LCD. He pointed out that when his firm started in 2016, it focused on OLED research …

Tags:Investment| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| OLED Fabs

Sharp to Split-off Display Business?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec, quoting SankeiBiz in Japan, reports that Sharp plans to split off its display business into a new subsidiary Sharp Display Technology (SDTC) based in Kameyama, Japan. The factory in …

Tags:Investment| Reorganisation & Restructuring| sharp

LG Display to invest in OLED line for Apple in Q1

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that LG is going to make extra investments at its Paju facility to build a new line, E6-3, to make G6 substrates (1500 x 1850mm) to support supply …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Investment| LG Displays (LGD)| OLED Fabs| Small & Medium Displays

Aledia Gets Investment for Manufacturing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Aledia, a start-up out of the high tech R&D LETI organisation in Grenoble, France, has raised €140 million to build production facilities in the region. What We Think We have been …

Tags:Investment| Manufacturing| MicroLED

iBeam Gets Help to Be Disruptive from a Tech Giant

by Bob Raikes

It’s sometimes hard as an independent analyst to work out whether a claimed technical breakthrough is really what it seems. I don’t have a team of engineers and scientists on the payroll to evaluate …

Tags:Investment| LED| Manufacturing| MicroLED| R&D (Research & Development)| Roll to Roll (R2R)| Samsung| SID Display Week 2020| TFT

TCL and JOLED Connect to Make IJP OLED TV Panels

by Barry Young

TCL’s CSoT and JOLED formed an alliance to “start joint-development of large-sized OLEDs for TV”, printed with RGB pixels. CSoT has a Gen 6 OLED fab in Wuhan for small/medium displays and has prototyped …

Tags:China| CSOT| InkJet Deposition| Investment| JOLED