SID Display Week 2016 – Page 7

BC3 Smartphones Looking for Growth

by Bob Raikes

Vinita Jakhanwal is from IHS and she spoke about smartphones – nobody can live without them these days, she said. However, the smartphone market is showing saturation with only around 1% growth this year. …

BC2 Hsieh Looks at Opportunities for IT Displays

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was David Hsieh, who heads up the Display Research for IHS, and he asked why display innovation is bypassing the PC/IT space? He showed the development of the industry overall and …

BC1 Microsoft Aims for ‘Virtuous Circle’ for IT Displays and Suggests ACES

by Bob Raikes

The Business Conference was opened with introductions by Yong-Seog Kim, President of SID and Ben Keen of IHS. Keen introduced IHS which runs the Business Conference and which has acquired seven companies to build …

Drinking the QD “Kool-Aid”

by Barry Young

When I wandered into the Exhibit Hall at the Moscone Convention Center West, the first visible display was LG’s 77” HDR UHD AMOLED TV, which was attracting the most interest and largest crowds on …

Tags:OLEDA (OLED Association)| OLEDs| Quantum Dots| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 21

Quantum Dots OverHyped? Check at DisplayWeek

by Bob Raikes

We will shortly have a great Display Daily article from Barry Young of the OLED Association on what he sees as the hype for quantum dots at SID. However, if you are still at …

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A New Look for Merck/EMD

by Ken Werner

Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany and its North American branch, EMD Performance Materials, showed off their new logos and design language at SID Display Week for the first time. The look, startlingly, is more “Age …

Tags:Cholesteric| Flexible Displays| Merck| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 20

LG Display Highlights Next Generation Displays at SID 2016

by Isaac Oburu

LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, will showcase the advanced technologies for next-generation displays at the 2016 Society for Information Display (SID) conference, which is being held at the Moscone Convention …

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SID’s Display Week Opens with Lots of Quantum Dot News

by Chris Chinnock

I have not had a chance to spend much time on the show floor or paper sessions, so I don’t have the full perspective of SID’s DisplayWeek yet. It is my turn to write …

Tags:Quantum Dots| Rec 2020| ROHS| SID Display Week 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 20

New 15.6” and 18.5” Full-HD TFT LCD Modules Deliver Dazzling Images

by Isaac Oburu

Today, Sharp announced two new LCD display modules that deliver stunning Full-HD (FHD) images. FHD performance is complemented by crisp definition via a high 1500:1 contrast ratio (typical). The combination enables viewing of high …

Tags:LCD displays| sharp| SID Display Week 2016

SID: Colour E Ink, Flexible AMOLEDs, New QDs – and More!

by Tom Allen

SID 2016 is ongoing at the time of writing, and we will have a full report for you in the coming weeks. For now, we have summarised some of the key announcements from the …

MicroLEDs on the Agenda for SID, AWE and Infocomm

by Bob Raikes

Our front page story from Sony was not difficult to choose this week. We have a special “microsite” with news from SID’s Display Week, which starts in a couple of days. In my introductory …

Tianma Reaches 847 ppi on Mobile Displays

by Tom Allen

Tianma NLT USA will show off several new displays from Tianma Micro-electronics at SID 2016 (24th – 26th May, San Francisco). Two of these have very high pixel pitches of 847 ppi. The two …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| NLT| SID Display Week 2016| Tianma| Vol 23 - Issue 19