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IDC: APeJ Mobile Spending Expected to Be Over $540.7 Billion in 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Spending on mobility solutions in the Asia Pacific excluding Japan region (APeJ) is expected to grow 5.3% year-on-year in 2018, reaching more than $540.7 billion, according to IDC. This growth is expected to continue …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 11

LG Opens First Flagship Retail Store in Taipei, Taiwan

by Andrew Fenn

LG opened its first flagship retail store in Taipei, Taiwan earlier this week, according to Digitimes. The company is expected to sell its major product lines including TVs, computers, household appliances. smartphones and tablets …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Retail| Vol 25 - Issue 11

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Acer Improves with PC & Display Focus

by Bob Raikes

Acer reached sales of NT$237.28 billion ($8.1 billion) in 2017, up 2%, while it moved back into profit at NT$2.82 billion ($96.4 million), a turnaround from a loss in 2016. The company has seen …

Tags:Acer| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 12

iPhone X Successor Might be Cheaper Thanks to Reduced BOM

by Andrew Fenn

According to Digitimes Research, the 5.9″ successor to the iPhone X will see more than a 10% reduction in its manufacturing bill of materials, which could position it as the cheapest of the three …

Tags:Apple| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 11

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Google To Buy Lytro

by Bob Raikes

Google is buying light field pioneer company, Lytro for a deal that is reported to be somewhere between $25 million and $40 million although one report claims that Google is getting only the assets …

Tags:Google| Large Display Monitor| Light Field Displays| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Next Action| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Can Electronic Viewfinders Match Optical Versions?

by Chris Chinnock

“Can Electronic Viewfinders Match Optical Versions?” That was the question that a panel of experts attempted to address at a recent SID-SMPTE joint meeting in New York on March 20, 2018. Speakers included David …

Tags:Cinema| Microdisplays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SMPTE| Viewfinders| Vol 25 - Issue 11

India to Enter the Mixed Reality Headset Market

by Arthur Berman

Dimension NXG Pvt. Ltd. (Mumbai, India) is developing what the company claims is India’s first locally designed mixed reality headset. The product will be called the AjnaLens. The headset is pictured in the figure …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Top 100 Warranty Providers of 2017

by Milos Pavlovic

Warranty Week had its annual look at the top warranty providers in the US and concentrated on those that had changed the most. The blog covers all industries, but we thought we’d pick out …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 25 - Issue 13| warranty

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Flex Wins 2018 Manufacturing Leadership Award for Sustainability

by Andrew Fenn

Sketch-to-Scale solution provider Flex has announced that it has been honoured as a 2018 Manufacturing Leadership Awards winner for its achievements in sustainability. The company was recognised for its 2017 Earth Day campaign, which …

Tags:Awards| Environment| Flex| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Nvidia and Microsoft Team for Real Time Ray Tracing

by Bob Raikes

Ray tracing in real time has long been the ‘holy grail’ of graphics engineers. Up to now, that has not been possible, although as we have reported, companies have worked on ray-tracing just the …

Tags:GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| ray tracing| Vol 25 - Issue 11

Kagan: SVOD in Nordic Region Grew 22% in 2017

by Andrew Fenn

According to a recent report from Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence, SVOD in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland has increased its share of subscription-based video entertainment revenues to 22% …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Nordics| SVOD| Vol 25 - Issue 11

OLED Info Makes Promotional Video

by Bob Raikes

OLED Info has released what it describes as ‘a short explanation of OLED’. The video is more promotional than neutral (we’d argue with or qualify some of the claims quite carefully), but it certainly …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 25 - Issue 11