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Notebook Makers See Good May

by Yvette Raikes

Quanta Computer posted May sales of NTD74.31 billion ($2.5 billion), up 6.1% YoY. This brought turnover to date to NTD371.42 billion ($12.35 billion), a rise of 10.7%. Pegatron reported revenue of NTD78.64 billion ($2.6 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Quanta| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Samsung Display Switches Plan from LCD to OLED

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display has been expected to make a half G10.5 LCD fab (2940 x 1685mm) to allow three 75″ or 4 65″ panels to be made with as much as 94% glass efficiency and …

Asustek and Acer See Varied Fortunes in May

by Yvette Raikes

Asustek Computer recorded turnover of NTD31.34 billion ($1.04 billion) for May, down 1.6% on the same period a year ago. This brought revenue for the year to date to NTD166.68 ($5.53 billion), a drop …

Worldwide Pay-TV Subscriptions Reach 969 Million

by Alan Spencer

Digital TV Research has estimated that there will be 254 million additional pay-TV subscribers between 2010 and 2016 to take the worldwide total to 969 million, representing an increase of 35%. The information was …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 23

LeEco Closing in US and India

by Bob Raikes

Chinese TV company, LeEco, which has hit financial trouble, has cancelled a plan to raise money via some bonds and has closed its operations in the US and India, laying off staff. In April, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LeEco (formerly LeTV)| Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Vol 24 - Issue 23

SID’s Done – time for Infocomm

by Bob Raikes

Phew, that was a busy week. We finished the mammoth SID report, which was a relief and thanks to all of the team that contributed. (We had a problem with some of the mailouts …

Chinese OLED Production Forecast

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research has released its forecast for the growth of AMOLED manufacturing in China. Seven China-based panel makers have been expanding existing or setting up new AMOLED production capacities, with the total annual capacity …

Tags:China| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 22

Diamond Ultra 4K/5K Docking Station Uses USB

by Bob Raikes

Diamond Multimedia has launched a USB Type C or Type A dock that uses a DisplayLink chip to support a 5120 x 2880 display at 60Hz (over DisplayPort) or two 4096 x 2160 60p …

Tags:DisplayLink| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USB| Vol 24 - Issue 23

Can VR Cure a Stutter?

by Yvette Raikes

Gareth Walkom is a student at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. He has been working on a treatment for stuttering using VRET (virtual reality exposure therapy). The headset wearer talks to an animated …

Tags:AR/VR| Medical| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 23

JDI to Defer JOLED Acquisition

by Bob Raikes

JDI said this week that it would delay its investment in JOLED until 2018 after originally planning to buy a large stake this year. The date of the acquisition will be decided by the …

Apple Adopts HEVC Across the Range

by Bob Raikes

Apple said at its developer’s conference that it would update the tvOS used on the Apple TV and will include new features including support for the HEVC codec, on Apple TVs from version 4. …

Tags:Apple| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 22

AUO revenues up slightly in May

by Bob Raikes

AUO saw revenues in May up 1% up on April and 4.7% up on May 2016. The company sold 9.15 million large LCDs in May, up 5.7% on April. Small medium panel shipments were …