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Panel Makers Issue August Figures

by Yvette Raikes

AUO saw its August revenue drop 5% YoY to NT$28.95 billion ($925.4 million) from NT$30.49 billion ($974.6 million). The year to date turnover was down 16% to NT$207.02 billion ($6.6 billion) from NT$245.49 billion …

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Canatu Receives EU Funding

by Yvette Raikes

Finnish company Canatu has won €22 million ($24.8 million) in funding for R&D into its transparent conductive films and touch sensors, €10 being investments and the remaining €12 million a loan. The films are …

Tags:Canatu| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Dell Result 07/09/2016

by Yvette Raikes

Dell Technologies recorded Q2 net losses of $264 million, down on losses of $292 million a year ago, on turnover which went up 1% to $13.05 billion from $12.98 billion. For the first half …

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Alienware Gaming Notebooks Power VR

by Milos Pavlovic

Dell has launched gaming notebooks suitable for VR use under the Alienware brand. The new notebooks feature Nvidia GeForce GTX 10 series GPUs and are claimed to have 85% better performance than the previous …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Intel to Acquire Computer Vision Company Movidius

by Milos Pavlovic

Intel is to buy Movidius which is a specialist developer of SoCs for vision processing (Is AR the New Hope for 3D?). Intel wants the technology to be used in “augmented, virtual and merged …

European Netflix Development Stutters

by Milos Pavlovic

Vivendi has been developing a European version of Netflix, but according to the French paper, Liberation, the project has had its meetings suspended. The project was originally planned to exploit content from Canalplay in …

Russian Mobile Market Cautiously Up

by Milos Pavlovic

IDC said that there was some life in the Russian mobile phone market in Q2 as the market slowly recovers. Imports were nearly seven million units, up from less than five million a year …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Russia| Smartphone Market| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Foxconn Sends iPhones for Launch

by Milos Pavlovic

Chinese sources say that Foxconn consigned 371,000 units of the latest iPhones through customs in Henan province, China, for shipment in the US, UK, the Netherlands and Italy. Analyst Comment As we went to …

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Fitness is ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ for Wearables

by Bob Raikes

Shipments of wearable devices reached 22.5 million in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16) according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Despite a decline in shipments for one of the largest vendors, the …

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Skyworth Releases One New HDR TV at IFA

by Chris Chinnock

Skyworth told us that they had one new HDR TV at IFA, the S9B which is part of the previously released H9 series. It is only for sale in China right now and is …

SmartKem Wins Flexible Funding

by Yvette Raikes

The EU has given UK organic semiconductor company, SmartKem, a €1.8 million grant to transfer its OTFT Truflex platform to mass production of flexible displays in Asia. SmartKem is adding a further €850,000. The …

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Hydis Joins with Tianma but Sees Revenue Downturn

by Yvette Raikes

Hydis Technologies, Korea-based subsidiary of electronic paper maker E Ink Holdings (EIH), and China-based Tianma Micro-electronics have agreed to cross-license TFT-LCD patents. Hydis licenses fringe field switching (FFS) wide viewing-angle technology to Tianma for …

Tags:E Ink| FFS| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 35