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China LED material, chip makers hike prices

by Bob Raikes

Reports from Asia have highlighted that raw material price rises of up to 30% to 40% are causing LED chip makers to raise prices by about 10%. This is expected to lead to subsequent …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 48

Vixole – The Display Sneaker

by Norbert Hildebrand

When we talk about wearables we typically have some gadgets like smartwatches or health bands in mind. We even have seen jewelry with some light effects showing up in the market and who has …

Tags:LED| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 47| Wearables

LED Media Facade for Elbe Philharmonic Hall

by Isaac Oburu

The Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg, Germany is completed and was officially inaugurated. At its entrance the visitors are welcomed by a 10 mm pixel pitch LED media façade of S[quadrat] GmbH. Nearly 700,000 …

Tags:Germany| LED

Nichia Wins Injunction Against Everlight in Germany

by Bob Raikes

Nichia has been granted injunctions by the Düsseldorf District Court against Everlight over claims that the company’s white LED products infringe Nichia’s YAG patent EP 936 682 (DE 697 02 929). Analyst Comment The …

Lumens Completes LED Factory in Vietnam

by Bob Raikes

Korean sources report that LED maker, Lumens, is boosting its LED production facilities in Vietnam to support growth in its supply to Samsung for LCD TV backlights. Samsung is reported to be shifting TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 46

Everlight LEDs for Small Pitch and Outdoor Applications

by Bob Raikes

Everlight is a packager of LEDs and had a number of areas covering automotive, lighting and infrared applications. There was also an area devoted to displays but, sadly, with nobody with expertise in the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Osram Concentrates on Automotive and HUD LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Osram is a successful local supplier of LEDs that is doing well in the market at the moment. It had a big booth that was mostly about applications other than displays. The first application …

The Trickstick is a Handheld “Persistence of Vision” Display

by Arthur Berman

Electricks (San Francisco, CA) is developing a product called Trickstick. The device is a hand held “persistence of vision” display in the form of a wand. “Wave it in front of you and a …

Tags:Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Novel Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Nichia Takes Action Against HTC

by Bob Raikes

Nichia has taken legal action against HTC Nippon and its distributor in Japan over the use of white LEDs in the HTC smartphone Desire 626 which are said to have infringed Nichia’s patents, JP5177317 …

Absen Europe Launches New Website

by Bob Raikes

Absen Europe today announced the launch of its new dedicated European website integrating which includes features such as a product finder and screen calculator. Users looking for specific products can filter their search by …

LED Industry Veteran Joins Leyard as Chief Scientist

by Milos Pavlovic

Leyard, a global leader in visualization products, today announced that the company has hired LED industry veteran Nedi Nadershahi. Nadershahi will serve as principal scientist in Leyard’s research and development department based in the …

Tags:LED| Leyard| Recruitment & Appointments

MicroLED, the Directview Display of the Third Kind

by Norbert Hildebrand

Many years ago I saw a LED Wall with a pixel pitch of 1mm and was intrigued by the opportunities that such a technology could bring to a low power cinema or TV display …

Tags:LED| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Vol 23 - Issue 42