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Sony Estimates Smartphone Shipments of 16.5M in Fiscal 2017

by Andrew Fenn

Sony Mobile Communications has predicted that shipments of its smartphones will reach 16.5 million units in fiscal 2017, according to a report by Digitimes. This figure represents a marked increase on the 14.6 million …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| sony| Vol 24 - Issue 29

TPK Results 04/08/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

TPK Holding announced its FY17 Q2 results with revenues of NT$22.4 billion ($740 million) and net profit of NT$327 million ($10.8 million), with net margin of 1.5%. The revenues were up by 31.2% on …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TPK| Vol 24 - Issue 29

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HannStar Display Results 04/08/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

HannStar Display announced its FY17 Q2 results with revenues of NT$4.7 billion ($155.9 million) and net profits of NT$1.04 billion ($34.4 million), resulting in a net margin of 25.7%. Revenues declined by 24.0% on …

Tags:Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Apple Applies for Patent with New Display Structure

by Norbert Hildebrand

With US patent application 20170221969, Apple describes a new hybrid display structure. The patent application is titled “Quantum dot LED and OLED integration for high efficiency displays” and describes very well what the company …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Patents| Quantum Dots| Vol 24 - Issue 29

Parade Technologies Result 03/08/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Parade Technologies announced FY17 Q2 results with consolidated revenues of $85.9 million and net income of $14.8 million, with a net margin of 17%. Revenue increased by 25% on a yearly basis. The gross …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Parade Technologies Inc| Vol 24 - Issue 28

JDI Ponders How to Enter OLED Business

by Bob Raikes

Nikkei reports that JDI (described as ‘limping’) JDI has asked Mizhuo Bank for loans totalling around ¥100 billion ($900 milliion) to help the company to deal with the challenges of the move from premium …

Tags:Apple| Japan| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 28

111.8 million Smartphones Shipped to China in the Second Quarter

by Alan Spencer

The latest IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker for the second quarter of this year, reveals that there were 111.8 million smartphones shipped to China in the quarter, with growth being flat when compared to …

Tags:China| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 28

IDC: AR/VR Growth to Double Each Year Through 2021

by Andrew Fenn

IDC has released a new report predicting that augmented and virtual reality will grow by at least 100% each year from now until 2021. In terms of revenue, this represents an increase from the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Linden Lab Introduces Sansar VR Creation Platform

by Norbert Hildebrand

Linden Lab, the San Francisco based VR development company that introduced us to Second Life and Blocksworld has opened the Sansar Creator beta to developers. Sansar is a development platform that allows developers to …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 28

TI Makes Pico DLP Accessible

by Bob Raikes

TI has made available the DLP LightCrafter Display 2000 evaluation module (EVM) that includes a 0.2″ DLP chipset and costs just $99. The EVM’s dual connector is set up to support any flexible GPIO-driven …

Tags:DLP| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pico Projectors| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 24 - Issue 28

Smartphone Volumes Reach 341.6 million in the Q2 2017

by Alan Spencer

Preliminary results from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, show that OEMs shipped 341.6 million smartphones worldwide in Q2 2017, declining 1.3% compared to the same quarter a year ago, and down 0.8% …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 28

RTL Takes 15% Minority Share in VR Company

by Andrew Fenn

European entertainment network RTL Group has invested in Israeli VR company Inception, earning a 15% stake in the company. RTL has released apps for Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear, iOS, Android, Google Daydream and HTC …

Tags:Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| RTL| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 28