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JOLED Raises $400 Million from Four New Investors

by Andrew Fenn

Four Japanese companies have invested in Joled, according to NHK. Between automotive component manufacturer Denso; Toyota Tsusho, the trading arm of the Toyota Group; Sumitomo Chemical; and chip manufacturing equipment maker, Screen Holdings, Joled …

Tags:Investment| Japan| JOLED| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 25 - Issue 27

Magic Leap Chooses Exclusive Wireless Distributor for the US

by Andrew Fenn

Magic Leap has chosen AT&T as its exclusive wireless distributor in the United States. AT&T is also investing in the augmented reality company and its CEO John Donovan has joined the Magic Leap board …

Tags:5G| AT&T| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 27| Wireless

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Falling Share Prices Lead to Cancellation of Sharp Fundraising Plans

by Andrew Fenn

Sharp has abandoned its plans to launch a public offering to raise $1.8 billion in funds, a week after making an official announcement on June 22nd, according to Nikkei. The report goes on to …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 25 - Issue 26

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Xiaomi Spends on IP before IPO

by Bob Raikes

Xiaomi has confirmed that it is planning an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock exchange later this year. The IPO could be the largest for several years. One of the key issues over recent …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Patents| Qualcomm| Vol 25 - Issue 25| Xiaomi

Foxconn Acquires Additional Shares in US TV Maker

by Andrew Fenn

Two subsidiaries of Foxconn have acquired shares in US TV brand Vizio. Innolux will purchase a 4.1% share of the company, priced at NT$1.35 billion ($44.5 million), while AFE will acquire a 3.1% stake …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Vizio| Vol 25 - Issue 25

IC09 Other speakers at the Investors’ Conference.

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker in the afternoon session was the CEO of Cynora, Gildas Sorin, but he didn’t add anything to the presentation at the business conference although he did say that the firm is …

Tags:Film materials| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| TADF| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC07 PixelDisplay Continues to Progress

by Bob Raikes

David Wyatt is from PixelDisplay, a company that we have reported on from SID last year and CES this year. He is an engineer from Nvidia and invented the company’s VividColor technology. Chris did …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Phosphors| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

IC05 Amorphyx Can Replace TFTs with Quantum Tunnelling

by Bob Raikes

Amorphyx is a new company that is working on new technology for backplanes and the CEO is John Brewer who started by saying that TFTs have very bad performance and the industry needs to …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| SID Display Week 2018| TFT| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC02 Clearink Ramping Things Up

by Bob Raikes

Frank Christiaens is from ClearInk Displays and we have been writing about the company for two years since the company came out of stealth mode in 2016, although it has been around since 2012. …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

IC01 Start Up Teams ‘Should not be Toxic’

by Bob Raikes

We joined the Investor Conference, run like the Business Conference by DSCC, for a panel discussion, but the early part of the event was a presentation by Bob O’Brien of DSCC who tallked about …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 21

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Sharp to Raise $1.8 Billion with Public Offering?

by Andrew Fenn

Nikkei reports that Sharp will raise $1.8 billion through a public offering, with the fundraising round scheduled to conclude in July. The publication writes that the funds raised will be used “to purchase Sharp’s …

Tags:Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 25 - Issue 22

3D Touch Developer Announces Completion of Series A1 Funding

by Andrew Fenn

Cambridge Touch Technologies (CTT) — a developer of AI-driven, 3D multi-touch sensing technologies — has announced the completion of a $5.5 million Series A1 round of investment. Existing investors Parkwalk Advisors, Cambridge Enterprise and …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 25 - Issue 22