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TV and Smartphones to Drive 3D

by Tom Allen

Allied Market Research (AMR) has predicted that the global 3D display market will be worth $112.9 billion by 2020, with a CAGR of 26.8% from 2014. More than 65% of revenue will be contributed …

Microsoft to Close Two China Phone Plants

by Helen Vince

Microsoft is reported to be planning to close two mobile phone manufacturing factories in Dongguan and Beijing, China by the end of this month. The two plants were previously operated by Nokia and came …

Coretronic Expects Monitor BLU Growth and Tablet Fall

by Tom Allen

Sources at Coretronic say that the company expects its shipments of backlight units to rise 10% YoY in 2015. Total shipments last year were just under 93 million units: a 20% YoY increase. Q4 …

Microsoft Looks to China From Taiwan

by Tom Allen

Microsoft is increasing its orders to Chinese smartphone makers, as it switches away from Taiwanese manufacturers, say supply chain sources. The company has apparently made the shift to reduce its costs. Truly Optoelectronics is …

Cambrios and Heraeus Announce New Conductive Material

by Norbert Hildebrand

Cambrios and Heraeus have announced a new class of flexible, transparent and conductive material. Both companies already produce materials that produce such conductive layers. Heraeus is the supplier for Clevios a PEDOT:PSS organic solution, …

Connected Cars to Drive Display Forward

by Steve Sechrist

A new study on connected cars of the future predicts that the growing market for displays/sensors and micro controllers will move the auto industry well beyond a niche market. It tracks a new wave …

Sharp Can Supply Memory LCD

by Bob Raikes

Jeremy Lock is from Sharp’s R&D lab in Oxford and he looks at all sizes of displays, but at the conference he talked about small displays for wearables. There are a lot of questions …

Suffer From Excess Money? Brikk Can Help

by Tom Allen

Ahead of the official launch of the Apple Watch, US-based Brikk has announced that its ‘Lux Watch’ , which consists of 30 different models of Apple’s wrist-worn device, is now available for pre-order. Available …

08 LG Display Can Reduce LCD Refresh Without Flicker

by Bob Raikes

Hee Eun Lee is from LG and she spoke about power reduction in mobile display devices by reducing refresh rates For smartphones, hardware is improving, but the power consumption remains an issue. Refreshing the …

07 Fraunhofer Working on QD LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Christian Ippen is from the Fraunhofer IAP and he also talked about QDs, which the Fraunhofer is researching. His introduction covered some of the ground that 3M had been over. The Fraunhofer uses an …

Displaydata Sells ZBD Germany to Delfi Technologies

by Helen Vince

Displaydata has sold all of its shares and the majority of all the shares in ZBD Germany to its Nordic partner, Delfi Technologies. Michael Jorgensen, division director at Delfi said that the company was …

Tags:Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs)| Germany| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 10

06 QDs in Cars Have to be Cadmium Free

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Michael Patz from 3M Germany and he talked about quantum dots (QDs). QDs are semiconductors that act as phosphors. The tiny particles, around 3nm, will emit pure green light at …