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Disney Takes Stake in Streaming Company

by Tom Allen

The Walt Disney company has taken a 33% stake in BAMTech, a video streaming company formed by Major League Baseball. The acquisition cost $2 billion, which will be paid in two installments: one now …

Renesas Electronics Result 10/08/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Renesas Electronics reported Q1 2016 net profit of 10 billion yen ($98.6 million), down 66.6% YoY from 29.8 billion yen ($293.8 million). Turnover was 152 billion yen ($1.5 billion) down 15.2% YoY from 179 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Renesas| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Skully Shuts Down Over ‘Personal Piggybank’ Allegations

by Tom Allen

Skully was a crowd-funded company that had planned to produce augmented reality motorcycle helmets. Although its campaign was funded in 2014, the firm has told backers that it’s closing down, because it ran out …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 31

LG’s V20 Will be First Smartphone With Quad DAC

by Tom Allen

LG has shared more information about its upcoming Android 7.0 smartphone, the V20. It will, says LG, be the first smartphone to feature 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC (digital to analogue converter). A Quad DAC …

Tags:audio| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Quanta Revenues Up Despite Notebook Fall

by Tom Allen

Quanta’s revenues in July reached NT$72.2 billion ($): a 3.9% MoM increase, but slipping 13.7% YoY. Year-to-date revenues were NT$477.2 billion, down 2.6% YoY. The on-month growth was achieved despite a double-digit (20%) fall …

Asustek Conservative About Q3

by Tom Allen

Asus’s July revenues reached NT$33.3 billion ($1 billion): down 21.3% MoM and 3.5% YoY. In the January-July period, Asus generated revenues of NT$255.9 billion ($8.2 billion), which was up 0.43% YoY. July revenues were …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 31

TSMC Up in July, But Down in First Half

by Tom Allen

July revenues were up at TSMC, growing 5.6% YoY although falling 6.1% MoM. They stood at NT$76.4 billion ($2.4 billion). Year-to-date revenues were down 1.3% YoY, to NT$501.7 billion ($16 billion).

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TSMC| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Coretronic Falls in July

by Tom Allen

Coretronic’s revenues fell 1.1% MoM and 14.9% YoY in July, ending the month at NT$4.8 billion ($153.3 million). Its January-July revenue was down 15.9% YoY, at NT$32.3 ($1 billion) billion. In July, Coretronic shipped …

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HannStar Display Result 09/08/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

HannStar Display reported Q2 2016 widening of net loss at NT$ 703 million ($22.7 milliion) down 18% YoY from NT$ 852 million ($27.5 million). Turnover was NT$ 4 billion ($129 million), down 3% YoY …

Tags:Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Colegrove To Speak on Touch at SID Vehicle Conference

by Tom Allen

Jennifer Colegrove of Touch Display Research will speak at the SID’s Vehicle Display 2016 Conference, on the 27th and 28th September in Michigan. She will discuss topics including touch screens, displays and touchless HMI …

JDI Achieves Four-Side Thin Bezels

by Tom Allen

Japan Display has developed an active LCD panel with slim bezels on all four sides. The ‘Full Active’ design uses a new high-density wiring layout and new processing and module assembly technologies. The combination …

Tags:Japan Display Inc (JDI)| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Narrow Bezels| Vol 23 - Issue 31

Fab Utilisation to Pass 90% For First Time in Six Quarters

by Tom Allen

IHS has forecast that the utilisation rate of LCD panel fabs will rise by 3.2 percentage points in Q3’16, topping out at 90.2%. This would mark the first time since Q1’15 that utilisation has …