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Gartner: Global IT Device Spending to Grow 2.4% in 2019

by Andrew Fenn

Worldwide IT spending for devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones — is forecast to grow 2.4% in 2019, reaching $706 billion, up from $689 billion in 2018, according to Gartner. Demand for PCs …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 40

Netflix Adds Nearly 7 Million New Subscribers

by Milos Pavlovic

Netflix added 6.96 million new subscribers during the third quarter of 2018, bringing its global total to 137 million. 1.09 million of these new subscribers were added in the US alone. The company predicts …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| TV Viewing| Vol 25 - Issue 40

Strategy Analytics: Larger Smartphones Increase in Consumer Acceptance

by Andrew Fenn

A new report from Strategy Analytics surveying consumers in the US, Western Europe, China and India has explored consumer smartphone size preference. Flagship device sizes between 5” and 5.5” continue to be preferred by …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 40

Samsung Considering Big QD-OLED Investment

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has acknowledged that it is continuing to look at the possibility of using OLED substrates and materials to drive an architecture that exploits the work that it is doing to develop ‘QD Filter’ …

Tags:Forecasts| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Materials Market| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| Vol 25 - Issue 40

IHS: 8K TV Shipments to Reach More Than 400,000 Units in 2019

by Andrew Fenn

After declining unit shipment volumes in 2017, global TV shipments are forecast to grow 3.6% year-on-year in 2018, with additional 1.4% growth in 2019, according to a new report from IHS Markit. Of the …

Tags:Forecasts| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 40

Military VR/AR Market to Grow at CAGR of 17.4% from 2018 – 2025

by Andrew Fenn

The military AR market will account for $1.8 billion by the end of 2025, according to a new report by The Insight Partners, escalating at a CAGR of 17.4% between 2018 and 2025, from …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Forecasts| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 39

IDC: Lenovo Reclaims Number-One Spot in Global PC Rankings

by Andrew Fenn

According to IDC, preliminary results for the third quarter of 2018 show that shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totalled nearly 67.4 million units, marking a decline of 0.9% year-on-year, unlike the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 25 - Issue 39

CES Unveiled In Paris

by Bob Raikes

CES used to have a ‘death by Powerpoint’-style event just before the opening of the event when they would bombard us with data about the markets. However, the CTA, which runs CES has changed …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CES Unveiled and Paris Motor Show| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Voice Input| Vol 25 - Issue 39

Smartphones to Ship Under 1.5 Billion Units Worldwide in 2019

by Andrew Fenn

Digitimes Research predicts that global smartphone shipments will come in below 1.5 billion units in 2019, with Samsung, Apple, Huawei and Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo remaining the top-six vendors worldwide. The top-four are expected …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 25 - Issue 39

Interbrand Lists its Top 100 Brands

by Bob Raikes

Interbrand put out its annual brand rankings and the list saw six of the top ten from the technology world. Apple was top, followed by Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Samsung was sixth (up from …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 39

Global Tablet Shipments to Decline For the Next Five Years

by Andrew Fenn

New data from Digitimes Research indicates that global tablet shipments will decline in 2018 and continue to do so over the next five years, due to increasing competition from large-sized smartphones like the 6.5″ …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 25 - Issue 38

Large-Sized LCD Area Shipments to Grow at Five-Year CAGR of 5%

by Andrew Fenn

According to new data from Digitimes Research, worldwide shipments of large-sized LCD panels (≥9%) will grow at a CAGR of 0.2% in terms of units and 5% in terms of area between 2018 and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| Vol 25 - Issue 38