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Olympics to be Broadcast in VR

by Tom Allen

The Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS) has said that it will capture virtual reality footage at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The footage will be both broadcast live and made available to download, although how …

Tags:Broadcast| Mobile Display Monitor| Olympics| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 09

Jabre is Dialog’s New CFO

by Tom Allen

Dialog Semiconductor has appoint Wissam Jabre as the company’s new CFO. Since 2014, Jabre has worked at AMD as the corporate VP of finance, and before that held various executive positions at Freescale Semiconductor.

Dialog Semiconductor Result 08/03/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Dialog Semiconductor reported Q4 net profit of $52.6 million, compared to $73.6 million, a decline of 29% YoY. Turnover was $397.2 million, down 9% YoY from $435 million. For the full year 2015, net …

Tags:Dialog Semiconductor| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 09

TV Growth Driven by IP, Says Ericsson

by Tom Allen

Ericsson predicts that the ‘fragmented’ TV market, driven by internet technology, will grow between 10% and 12% between 2014 and 2018. The company’s 2015 Annual Report (http://tinyurl.com/hk3l8zm) says that IP technology is transforming the …

Augmented Reality Under Development at Intel

by Tom Allen

Intel is developing an augmented reality headset, which will use its Realsense 3D camera technology, sources have told the Wall Street Journal. The AR project is one way in which Intel hopes to diversify …

Tags:3D Depth Cameras| Augmented Reality| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 09

Ikea Seeks Disposable Labels

by Tom Allen

Furniture store Ikea has posted a listing on Ninesigma, seeking remotely-writable, disposable labels to show country-specific information on products and packages. The (blank) labels must be able to be attached during production and updated …

Tags:Back Panel| Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Mobile Display Monitor| Retailers| Vol 23 - Issue 09

Earthquake Continues to Affect Innolux

by Tom Allen

Innolux’s February revenues were down 21.1% MoM and 38.9% YoY, which is believed to be due to a combination of the February earthquake (Earthquake Rocks Taiwan Production Base) and Chinese New Year holiday. Revenues …

Tags:Financial Data| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 09

MicroVision Result 08/03/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Microvision reported Q4 net loss of $4.3 million, up 30% YoY from $3.3 million. Turnover was $1.8 million, up 25% YoY from $0.7 million. For the full year 2015, net loss was $14.5 million, …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Microvision| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 09

US Bans Exports to ZTE

by Tom Allen

China’s Ministry of Commerce has spoken out against the US sanctions against ZTE. The Ministry said that the move will ‘severely impair’ the commercial activities of Chinese firms. The USA announced export restrictions on …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 09| ZTE

Small Panel Shipments Cannot Sustain AUO

by Tom Allen

AUO’s unaudited consolidated February revenues were down 15.3% MoM and 27.5% YoY. Revenues reached NT$20.6 billion ($627.2 million). Shipments of large-sized (10″+) panels were just under 7.1 million units, down 9.5% MoM. Small-and-medium panel …

Tags:AUO| Large Display Monitor| LCD Panels| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 09

German Scientists Suggest Code of Conduct for Virtual Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

vnorb When a new technology gets developed, some of the consequences of such technology are always up for debate and often enable very and unexpected different applications. Just think of nuclear power versus nuclear …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Mobile Display Monitor| technology| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 09

Detachables Will Change Tablet Market

by Tom Allen

IDC has forecast that worldwide tablet shipments will fall to 195 million units this year: a 5.9% fall from 2015. Positive growth, albeit single-digit, will resume in 2017, largely thanks to demand for detachable …