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Asus Lowers Notebook Forecast on Fluctuating Exchange Rates

by Tom Allen

Asus has lowered its notebook shipment target for Q3, says the Taipei Times. The company is apparently aiming to ‘lower sales exposure’ in some emerging markets to prevent losses due to currency exchange rates. …

Tags:Asus| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Samsung Display Pushes Curves – and Large OLEDs.

by Bob Raikes

Samsung Display had a meeting room conveniently close to the press office. We had a look at the panels on display, but there was little that was particularly new. There was an 82″ 21:9 …

Tags:Curved Displays| IFA 2015| Large Display Monitor| LCD Modules| Mirror Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung Display| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Apple’s iPad Pro is a Light Heavyweight

by Norbert Hildebrand

The Apple special event on September 9, 2015 was the usual iPhone update show accompanied by some other Apple news about the iPad, Apple Watch and the Apple TV. As expected Apple announced the …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| iPad| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart TV| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Panel Reviews UltraHD Future

by Bob Raikes

The final panel of the day before the social part of the event covered UltraHD. Julien Libouban is from Orange where he works on audiovisual quality, but he was speaking as part of the …

Tags:IFA 2015| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 36

“From Fixed Function to App Platform: What’s next for Connected CE?”

by Bob Raikes

Ian Fogg moderated the next session which had a topic “From Fixed Function to App Platform: What’s next for Connected CE?” The first panel was Jacobo Toll-Messia of Hubii, a news content aggregator; Christopher …

Tags:IFA 2015| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Smart TV| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Fogg Clarifies Mobile Mistakes

by Bob Raikes

Ian Fogg is originally from the cable TV business, but now looks at the mobile industry for IHS. He gave a high bandwidth talk that started by looking at the mistakes that had been …

Tags:IFA 2015| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Apps| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 22 - Issue 36

The Panel Market is Still Developing says Tamura

by Bob Raikes

Tamura-san is from IHS and looked at the development of the panel industry. China is the biggest market for TVs (23% of global) and phones (33% of global) and that means that success in …

Tags:China| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| TV Set Market| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Gray Summarises CE Market Developments

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray of IHS then gave a summary of the market as he sees it. He said that the current situation looks like the “Triumph of the generalist” – the general purpose smartphone is …

Tags:Consumer Electronics Industry| IFA 2015| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TV Set Market| Vol 22 - Issue 36

China is More than Just a Factory

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray opened the sixth IHS (used to be DisplaySearch) conference and there was a message of support from Dirk Koslowski of IFA. Morrod of IHSThe first keynote was from Tom Morrod whose topic …

Tags:China| IFA 2015| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Euronics Tries to Keep Smiling!

by Bob Raikes

Euronics held its usual press event at the show and it’s always interesting to hear a retailer’s point of view. John Olsen from the company said it has announcements including a new Gulf partner, …

Tags:Consumer Electronics Industry| Europe| IFA 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Retailers| Vol 22 - Issue 36

Innolux’s August Sales Down 27% YoY

by Helen Vince

Innolux reported a 6.2% month on month and 27.2% year on year decrease in sales in August, to NT$27.8 billion ($857.6 million). Sales in the first eight months of the year reached NT$151.2 billion …

Tags:Financial Data| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36

IHS Predicts 50% Market Share for Foldable Displays

by Tom Allen

More than half (51%) of total display shipments will be foldable units in 2020, says IHS. Global shipments of these devices are expected to rise at a 58% CAGR between 2016 and 2020, ending …

Tags:Flexible Displays| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 36| Worldwide