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Liquavista Technology – what’s the catch?

by Bob Raikes

The story that caught my attention particularly this week is the report that Samsung is trying to sell Liquavista, the Philips spin-off that it bought in January 2011 (the story has been going around …

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Samsung’s Sharp Move

by Bob Raikes

The big story of last week was, without doubt, the planned Samsung investment in Sharp. The symbolism is more important than the substance. The deal indicates that Samsung wants to have an on-going relationship …

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OLEDs and Secrecy

by Bob Raikes

Some years ago, a group of academics studied the LCD industry and found that much of the rapid growth of the LCD business was a result of the cooperation between different LCD-making companies. Although …

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LCD TV reaches 90% of market in Q4 2011

by Raverstead

LCD TV sales increased their share to 90% in the EMEA region for the first time in Q4 of 2011, according to the latest TV market research from Meko. Year end figures from the …

Tags:LCD| LCD TV| TV| TV market| TV sales

Samsung sells off its LCD business

by Bob Raikes

So Samsung has decided to spin-off its LCD business into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics and to orient its business towards OLED displays. When I first heard the rumour about the split, I …

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Small LCDs, Panel Pricing and PC Demand

by Bob Raikes

One of the stories which caught my eye recently is the possible merger of Sony and Toshiba’s small panel business to create what would be the largest player in that space in the market. …

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PALC

by Dummy Admin

A hybrid of the LCD and a PDP: the Plasma Addressed Liquid Crystal (PALC) display. The main drawback to the use of the TFT is that, as with any semiconductor process, manufacturing of large …

Liquid Crystal (LC)

by Dummy Admin

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are now so common that we take it for granted that people know what we are talking about when we use the phrase. But how many of us know what …

In-Plane Switching (IPS)

by Dummy Admin

If LCDs are ever to replace the CRT-based display, one of the major problems to be overcome is that of narrow viewing angles. Several solutions have been developed but the different approaches have met …

Active matrix (AM/TFT)

by Dummy Admin

In Super Twisted Nematic LCs, we see how multiplexed addressing allows an array of pixels to be controlled in such a way as to allow a high definition display to be built with liquid …