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Links Week Ending 4th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon Prime Video overtakes Netflix in …

Tags:Amazon| Desktop Monitors| E Ink| Google| HP Inc| Iiyama| Netflix| OLED TVs| Operating Systems| Philips| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| sony| Testing| The Metaverse| ViewSonic| Xiaomi

LeTV Restores Employee Benefits

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Caixin Chinese news source reports that LeTV, which hit really difficult financial conditions in the past (LeEco Still Struggling to Survive and LeEco Brags about its Debt), has decided to …

Tags:China| Reorganisation & Restructuring| TVs (TV Sets)

Links Week Commencing 20th December 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. 5G Threatens Aviation According to Boeing and …

Tags:5G| Aviation| Dolby Atmos| Dolby Vision| LED| Panasonic| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Sports and Stadiums| Testing| TVs (TV Sets)| Xiaomi

Troubled Japan Display to sell LCD unit to Taiwan’s Wistron

by Bob Raikes

What They Say JDI said that it has agreed to sell its Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics industrial LCD module business to Wistron of Taiwan. The subsidiary had sales of $339 million in 2020 and the company …

Tags:Industrial Monitors| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| LCD Module Assembly| Mergers & Acquisitions| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Taiwan

Three longtime Magic Leap executives are heading toward the exits.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Business Insider ($) reports that three long-standing Magic Leap C-Suite execs are leaving the firm. The three are CTO Paul Greco, COO Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent officer David Lundmark. The …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Reorganisation & Restructuring

LG Board of Directors Guillotines Moribund Smart Phone Business

by Ken Werner

In 1789 Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a member of the French National Assembly, spearheaded the passing of a law that required all death sentences to be carried out by “means of a machine,” so decapitations …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Smartphones

LG Out of the Smartphone Business

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As expected, today LG’ Electroncs’ board of directors decided to quit the smartphone business, although the existing inventory will be sold and there will be on-going support for hardware and software. …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Smartphone Market

Sandbox VR to Re-open in Las Vegas

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sandbox VR, the location-based VR company has now emerged from Chapter 11 (What Bob Saw on the Net 17 08 2020). The firm is confident that as the US returns to …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Reorganisation & Restructuring| USA| Virtual Reality

Samsung To Boost Foldable, but LG still Hesitating on Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Samsung wants to boost the sales level of its folding smartphones to around the level of its Note series of smartphones at over 10 million handsets per year. …

Tags:Foldable Devices| LG Electronics (LGE)| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| Smartphones

Samsung Transfer of Suzhou to TCL Completed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sigmaintell reported that Suzhou Samsung Display has now changed its name to Suzhou Huaxing Optoelectronics Display Co., Ltd and its shares are now 100% held by TCL Huaxing Optoelectronics Technology Co., …

Tags:China| Investment| Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung Display| TCL

Kyocera to shutter Chinese automotive LCD plant

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported that Kyocera is to shut down a plant, originally opened by Optrex in 1997 in Jiangsu province in China that has been making STN displays valued at around $28 …

Tags:Automotive| China| LCD Fabs| Reorganisation & Restructuring