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Filling Station Chain Installs Hundreds of Outdoor DOOH Screens

by Yvette Raikes

Filling station chain Tank & Rast (Fill up and rest) is installing 85″ Samsung Travelboards outside its rest areas. The several hundred OH85F screens have been customised for Tank & Rast by Samsung. They …

Tags:DOOH| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Outdoor Displays| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 20

Zenimax/Oculus Court Case Rumbles On

by Bob Raikes

The legal battle between Oculus and ZeniMax (Facebook-Owned Company Oculus Loses Court Case) has intensified with reports that John Carmack and Matt Hooper, once of id Software, planned the strategy that led to the …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 19

Samsung QLED TVs Calibrated by Calman

by Yvette Raikes

In issue 3 this year, we told you (Samsung Ties up with Calman) about the partnership allowing Samsung to use Portrait Displays’ Calman software to calibrate its 2017 QLED TV range. The two companies …

Tags:Back Panel| Colour Management & Processing| Germany| Large Display Monitor| QLED| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 19

Samsung Folding Phone has Dual Displays

by Bob Raikes

Samsung’s SM-W2017 dual 4.2″ FullHD OLED flip phone (Dual-Screen Phone Coming From Samsung) which was released only in China, is now to ship in South Korea, although no date has been announced. Features include …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Samsung Denies OLED Plan Rumours

by Bob Raikes

The Korea Herald reports that Samsung Display is denying reports that it is building a new flexible 7G OLED plant in Asan, South Chungcheong Province in Korea. The company told the paper that the …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Samsung DeX Uses Cypress Chips

by Bob Raikes

Cypress is the supplier of the main chips (four) in the Samsung DeX docking station, that is designed to turn the Samsung S8 smartphone into a PC-type docks. The company said that it has …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Semiconductors| Shells| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 18

This is War!

by Ken Werner

Nobody at Samsung will quite say they are at war with OLED-TV, but it’s not hard to read between the lines. Since its final, grudging flirtation with OLED-TV a couple of years ago, Samsung …

Tags:OLED TVs| QLED| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Samsung Still Leads VR Market

by Milos Pavlovic

IHS Markit said that competition in the VR market is hotting up with Google’s Daydream platform emerging to offer an alternative to the established market leader, Samsung’s Gear VR. According to the latest forecasts, …

Tags:AR/VR| Google| IHS Markit| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Why LCDs are Not Just Big Chips

by Bob Raikes

This week, IC Insights forecast that because of the current high pricing regime for memory, Samsung might go past Intel in the value of its semiconductor sales in Q2 of this year, the first …

Tags:Intel| Large LCD Supply| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Samsung Debuts New LED and LCD Products

by Chris Chinnock

Samsung revealed some new LCD and LED products at NAB. For example, the QM98F 98” is a new edge-lit 4K/UHD LED Smart Signage Display. These are based on TV components and panels, but have …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LED| NAB 2017| QLED| Samsung| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Video Walls| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Samsung Could Go Past Intel in Q2

by Milos Pavlovic

IC Insights has published its latest supplier rankings for semiconductors and has said that if the high memory prices (NAND and DRAM) continue to prevail in the market, Samsung could overtake Intel as the …

Tags:Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 17

Will Samsung Buy PlayNitride?

by Bob Raikes

There have been reports that Samsung may be looking to acquire a Taiwan-based microLED developer, PlayNitride for around $150 million. PlayNitride exhibited its PixelLED technology which is for smartwatches and can reach 1,500ppi at …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 17