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Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Fry’s Electronics is going out of business, blaming the change in retail habits and the effects of the pandemic. What We Think “How the mighty are fallen”. Back in the ’90s, …

Tags:Reorganisation & Restructuring| Retailers| USA

LG Mulls Exit from Smartphone Market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Electronics told the Korea Herald that after losing $4.5 billion over recent years, it is considering dropping out of the smartphone business. CEO Kwon Bong-seok said “Regardless of any change …

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

Behind the Daqri Failure

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol published its most popular articles for 2020 and included one that dug into the falure of Daqri, the developer of helmets with augmented reality integrated. In February, the blog spoke …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Virtual Reality

Iljin Display eyes turnaround from notebook and MiniLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In reporting on new funding for Iljin Tech, to help the firm turn around its business, The Elec said that the company seems to be banking on Samsung Electronics using its …

Tags:Financial Data| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Touch

Sharp to Split-off Display Business?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec, quoting SankeiBiz in Japan, reports that Sharp plans to split off its display business into a new subsidiary Sharp Display Technology (SDTC) based in Kameyama, Japan. The factory in …

Tags:Investment| Reorganisation & Restructuring| sharp

Parent company of DSE files for Chapter 7

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The organiser of the Digital Signage Expo, Exponation LLC in the US has gone into bankruptcy. What We Think This will be nowhere near the only casualty of the lack of …

Tags:Events| Reorganisation & Restructuring

Covid Brings Harsh Reality to Display Industry (Part 1)

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, Ross Young of DSCC ran a webinar that summarised the impact of the Coronavirus on the display industry, and he subsequently published a detailed blog, but he kindly sent …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| LCD Fabs| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Small Medium Panel Supply

Another of Those Damned Inflection Points….

by Bob Raikes

As regular and long term readers will know, I’m keen on trying to spot inflection points in the development of the industry – moments after which the industry will never be quite the same. …

Tags:Crystal cycle| IHS DisplaySearch| LCD Fabs| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung

Cynora Introduces A More Efficient Blue OLED Emitter

by Ken Werner

Last week Cynora, the German developer of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) OLED emitters, announced its first commercial product, “a fluorescent blue emitter that promises to significantly improve the efficiency of Organic Light Emitting …

Tags:InkJet Deposition| Kateeva| OLED Materials| Reorganisation & Restructuring| TADF

Looking a decade back….

by Bob Raikes

Hmm…, I seem to have messed up my schedules for Display Daily, so you’ve got me for today and tomorrow. I thought I’d take a chance today, as it’s the end of the decade, …

Tags:LCD TVs| OLED TVs| Reorganisation & Restructuring