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Surface Tablet Shipments to Double, Say Sources

by Tom Allen

‘Supply chain sources’ have told Asian media that Microsoft is expected to ship more than 4 million Surface tablets this year – double the 2 million shipped last year. The sources said that the …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 15| Windows

BOE Expects China to Overtake Taiwan in LCD Capacity

by Tom Allen

Chinese panel makers believe that their TFT-LCD capacity could surpass that of Taiwan by 2017, taking the global number two spot behind Korea. Speaking at Finetech Japan, BOE VP Chikara Kuboshima said that companies …

DARPA Working on Helmet Mounted Displays

by Norbert Hildebrand

DARPA has invested in augmented reality and related display technologies before and it seems the search for the perfect display solution continues. According to a report from Gizmodo Australia, DARPA has created a low …

Tags:Augmented Reality| DARPA| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Means Under Development to Allow use of a Cellphone for 3D Modeling

by Arthur Berman

Simon Lucey, an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) along with colleagues Surya Singh and Kit Hamm of the University of Queensland are developing a technology that …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| 3D Content Creation| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 15

VR System from Wearality on Kickstarter

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Wearality Corporation, a Silicon Valley start-up, has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $100,000 to finance production of its head-mounted Virtual Reality (VR) system called the Wearality Sky. As of April 8th, the company …

Tags:3D display| Crowdfunding (Kickstarter etc)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 15

AUO’s March Sales Climb 23% MoM

by Helen Vince

AU Optronics (AUO) saw sales in March climb 22.7% month on month and 2.3% year on year to NT$34.8 billion ($1.1 billion), bringing sales in the first quarter of the year to NT$95.3 billion …

Tags:AUO| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Lenovo Names New North America and EMEA Presidents

by Helen Vince

Aymar de LencquesaingEric CadorFollowing the recent realignment of its business groups and geographies, Lenovo has named new leaders for North America and EMEA. Aymar de Lencquesaing, currently president of EMEA, has been named president …

Acer Notebooks Win Red Dot

by Tom Allen

Acer has won five Red Dot design awards, four of which are for the company’s notebooks. The Aspire Switch 12, Travelmate P645, Aspire R13 and Aspire V Nitro were honoured, as well as the …

Samsung Disputes Insurer’s Bent Phone Claim

by Tom Allen

Insurance firm SquareTrade recently put the HTC One M9, iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge through bending tests. Both the iPhone and Galaxy were found to bend – but while the iPhone …

Aixtron to Buy PlasmaSi

by Helen Vince

Aixtron is to acquire privately held Silicon Valley-based PlasmaSi, for approximately $16 million. PlasmaSi enables the encapsulation of organic thin-films by depositing ultra-thin and flexible barrier films through its proprietary technology which are said …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 15

AUO Debuts Circular OLED at CITE

by Tom Allen

AUO recently showed a range of new products at the China Information Technology Expo 2015, in Shenzen. As well as its existing range of UltraHD quantum dot LCD TVs (55″ – 85″), AUO debuted …

CPT’s Q1 Sales Dip 11.6% YoY

by Helen Vince

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported sales in the first three months of the year of NT$13.2 billion ($423.9 million), 11.6% down on the same period of 2014. In March, CPT’s sales reached NT$4.6 billion …

Tags:CPT| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 15