Small & Medium Displays – Page 2

IHS: Notched Smartphone Displays Estimated to Cost About 20% More

by Andrew Fenn

Notched smartphone displays are estimated to raise manufacturing costs of display panels by more than 20%, according to IHS Markit. The manufacturing cost of the 5.9″ OLED panel with notch design seen in the …

JDI Looks at Mobile Display Trends

by Bob Raikes

The third speaker was Holger Gerkens, President of JDI in Europe. He had three topics, Market trends core technologies and future vision. He showed a chart indicating the ‘display market size’, but the chart …

Tianma Shows Flex & VR Panels

by Bob Raikes

Tianma had a meeting room to show its latest display products. The company does attend a number of the major trade shows (SID/Electronica/CES/MWC at least) to meet with clients. Tianma’s flex oled with touch …

Global Handset Panel Shipments To Reach 2.93 Billion

by Yvette Raikes

Global handset panel shipments were 2.93 billion, up 4.9% YoY, according to a recent report from Shanghai, China-based Cinno Research. Of these 2.11 billion were for smartphones, up 16.4%, while the remaining 820 million …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small & Medium Displays| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 02

Small Displays Flat, but Premium Tech is Rising

by Tom Allen

The small-and-medium (9″ and smaller) display market was flat in terms of both shipments and revenue in 2015, says IHS. 2.8 billion units were shipped and revenue was up 4%, to $43.9 billion. Although …

Kyocera Introduces Robust 4.2” and 5.0” TFT LCD Displays for Outdoor Applications

by Tom Allen

Kyocera has introduced two small-form-factor TFT LCD displays that offer high performance and robust design for industrial markets. Available now, both products are designed to perform in harsh environment and extreme temperature applications including …

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IHS: Automotive Takes Second-Highest Small-Medium Category

by Tom Allen

Smartphones sales continue to intrude on other small-medium display categories, but automotive revenues continue to rise. According to IHS DisplaySearch, revenues in the category were up 26% last year, to become the second-highest growth …

Coretronic BLU Shipments Grow 20% YoY

by Helen Vince

Coretronic ended 2014 with a 20% increase in shipments of backlight units (BLUs), with volume reaching 92.9 million units. This was despite seeing shipments fall 11% sequentially in Q4 to 23.4 million and 2% …

Radiant Revenues Dropped 28% in December

by Helen Vince

Radiant Opto-Electronics saw sales drop 28.5% year on year in December to NT$4.8 billion ($151.6 million), taking sales for the year to NT$51.4 billion ($1.6 billion), 19% lower than 2013. Shipments of BLUs for …

First On-Cell Module Developed by Kyocera

by Raverstead

A new 7″ Kyocera display module, the TCG070WVLR*PC*-GD*118, is the company’s first with an on-cell procap touch panel. The touch panel cover glass, touch sensor and controller are all integrated into the module, resulting …

Samsung Display Requests Component Price Cuts

by Raverstead

Samsung Display is asking supply chaing members to lower component pricing by as much as 30%, as the company aims to drop its overall pricing for small- and medium-size panels. The news comes from …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Small & Medium Displays| Vol 21 - Issue 46

Everdisplay Extends AMOLED Production Plans

by Raverstead

China’s Everdisplay Optoelectronics began mass-producing AMOLED panels earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol. 21 No 30). Now OLED-Info has said that the company is developing 5.6″ panels (1920 x 1080) and plans to launch …