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Is Covid Killing the Smartphone Market in 2020?

by Bob Raikes

I’m really a ‘big display’ specialist, but as part of some work I am doing to cover the whole of the SID Business Conference (a major task as it includes 41 talks, with plenty …

Tags:5G| Foldable Devices| Forecasts| Market Data| SID Display Week 2020| Smartphone Market

eMagin Announces A Direct Patterned OLED Micro Display With 7,500 Nits

by Barry Young

The VR/AR revolution has not materialized as expected by the illustrious leaders of Facebook, Apple, Google and just about all market researchers have had to drop their forecasts year after year. In 2019, 6.9m …

Tags:Augmented Reality| eMagin| Forecasts| Market Data| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Virtual Reality

Large-area FPD Panel Availability Set To Tighten Significantly In 2021

by Charles Annis

Korean panel makers’ exit from LCD TV production expected to create a supply bottleneck. From 2013 through 2020 worldwide flat panel display (FPD) capacity grew almost 50 percent, expanding to 335 million square meters …

Tags:Covid-19| Large LCD Supply| Market Data

QD Materials are Set for High Growth – Here’s Why

by Sid Harikrishna-Mohan

Quantum Dot-based panel shipments are forecast to grow from 3M shipments in 2018 to 31M shipments by 2025 representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40%, according to DSCC. The report provides both …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| OLED Materials| QD OLEDs| QLED| QNED| Quantum Dots

…and then China got Sick

by Steve Sechrist

It was the 19th century Habsburg era diplomat Prince Klemens von Metternich who once said, “When France sneezes, Europe catches a cold”. Well, it’s a different viral strain, but that’s pretty much what seems …

Tags:Apple| China| Covid-19| IDC| Manufacturing| Market Data| Smartphone Market

iPad Turns 10 – Yep

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it the iPad had its 10th birthday this past week. It was January 27, 2010 that a noticeably thinning Steve Jobs presented, to much fanfare, the first iPad tablet device. …

Tags:Apple| IDC| iOS (Apple)| iPad| Market Data| tablets

The Move to Mixed Mobile Reality

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, in the latest worldwide VR – AR (virtual reality – augmented reality) market forecast, spending is reckoned to increase 78.5% next year, reaching $18.8 billion in 2020, over the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Market Data| Mixed Reality| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality

Digital Distribution and Making Content Personal

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, the Disney+ media streaming service launched earlier this month (November 12) for $6.99/month in the US, and in just 24 hours, the company claimed 10 million subscribers. – Wow! …

Tags:Apple| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Content Creation| Disney| Market Data| Netflix| Streaming Video

Foxconn Looking to Sell New Gen 10.5 Plant?

by Bob O'Brien

Reuters reported this week that Foxconn is in discussions to appoint banks to find a buyer for its LCD factory that is being built in Guangzhou. While Foxconn replied in a written statement that …

Tags:Financial Data| Foxconn (Honhai)| Investment| LCD Fabs| Market Data| sharp

In the USA, Are Chinese TVs Off the Table?

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, the ongoing trade spat between the US and China, the world’s largest communist nation (yep – wonder why we don’t often see this in print?) has resulted in a …

Tags:China| Display Supply & Demand| Large LCD Supply| Market Data

Can iPad OS Save the Tablet Market?

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it… IDC’s recent personal computing device tracker reckons traditional PCs and tablets to drop 3% in 2019 (shipments) and revenue will remain flat. ($237B). And, yes, you are exercising very …

Tags:IDC| iOS (Apple)| Market Data| tablets