Vol 22 – Issue 03 – Page 10

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% …

Hisense Boasts of ULED Advantages

by Tom Allen

Hisense was showing the second generation of its ULED TVs, which – as was revealed at IFA – use quantum dots to enhance their colours. The new models widen contrast levels (30,000:1 static contrast …

LG press conference Tim Alessi and OLED TV

LG Stresses Importance of Colour

by Tom Allen

Skott Ahn, CTO of LG, was the first speaker on-stage at the first CES 2015 press conference. LG’s theme this year is ‘Innovation for a better life’: a life that is newer, more beautiful …

ViewSonic Sets New UltraHD IPS Price

by Vanessa Browning

ViewSonic was in the Encore Hotel in a suite (although the hotel staff didn’t seem to be aware of this!) and we made our way there to have a look around. First, we looked …

Innolux Records Flat Performance in 2014

by Helen Vince

Innolux reported just a 1.4% increase in sales in 2014 from the previous year, reaching NT$428.7 billion ($13.5 billion). The result came after sales in December were flat month on month at NT$38.2 billion …

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UMC Reports December Sales Increase

by Helen Vince

United Microelectronics (UMC) reported sales of NT$12.2 billion ($384.8 million) in December, up 5.8% from November and 23.2% higher than December 2013. Last month’s result brought sales for the year to NT$140 billion ($4.4 …

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Panasonic is Big on B2B

by Tom Allen

This year’s CES focuses on automotive technology, said Joe Taylor, chairman and CEO of Panasonic North America when he took the stage. More than 25% of Panasonic’s North American sales are expected to be …

Hannstar’s 2014 Sales Fell 25%

by Helen Vince

Hannstar Display reported a 24.7% drop in sales for 2014, falling to NT$23.7 billion ($748.2 million). In December, sales of NT$2 billion ($63.1 million) were 1.8% lower than November but 5.2% higher than December …

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Christie Partners with Sahara

by Helen Vince

Christie has signed a new partnership agreement with Sahara Benelux which will distribute Christie’s range of displays in the Netherlands and Belgium. Sahara Benelux will offer Christie’s full range of products, including flat screens, …

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Koenig: How Long Can Mobiles Last?

by Tom Allen

Steve Koenig is the CEA’s director of industry analysis and he presented a talk before the official start of CES. He began his time on-stage by asking which technologies are driving device sales? There …

Improving a time-sequential autostereoscopic 3D display

by Tom Allen

Hee-Jin Choi and his colleagues from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) have suggested a new method to show glasses-free 3D (autostereoscopic, or AS3D) on an LCD display. Existing AS3D displays effectively …

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Touch Panels Just Keep Getting Better

by Arthur Berman

The industry has seen the capabilities of Multi-touch Projected Capacitive Touch (MPCT) panels improve quite considerably during the past few years. Nonetheless, it was a recent product press release by Itron that made clear to me just how far …

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