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An iCar? Why iBother?

by Tom Allen

This week, I covered the news that Apple really does seem to be moving forward with its project to build a self-driving car (Confirmation of Apple’s Autonomous Car Plans). ‘Project Titan’, as it’s known …

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NEC Hopes Solid State Appeals to Educators

by Tom Allen

NEC’s PH502L is said to be the world’s most compact 5,000-lumen laser projector. First introduced at ISE this year, we recently saw it an Infocomm (NEC Ups Laser Phosphor Projector Offerings), and the NEC …

GPUs Perform Poorly, But Q3 Expectations Are Up

by Tom Allen

Despite the relative stability of the desktop PC market, and the growth of the technology sector in general, Jon Peddie Research reports an 11% QoQ fall in Q2 GPU shipments. Embedded and integrated GPUs …

Tags:GPUs| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 33

LG Raises OLED Investment on Chinese LCD Progress

by Tom Allen

LG Display is to shift its investment priority to OLED displays, due to the speed with which Chinese rivals are catching up in the LCD market. Over the next 10 years, LGD plans to …

Confirmation of Apple’s Autonomous Car Plans

by Tom Allen

Documents seen by The Guardian imply that Apple really is working on its own self-driving car. Under a Public Records Act request, The Guardian newspaper obtained records of correspondence between Apple engineers and officials …

Tags:Apple| Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 33

European IT Turnaround Begins

by Tom Allen

The European IT market will achieve minimal growth in 2015, following two years of revenue declines and low sales growth, according to a prediction by the European Information Technology Observatory (EITO). The results, published …

CEE Tablet Market Shows “Clear Signs of Saturation”

by Tom Allen

Tablet shipments in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) sub-region were down 21.4% in Q2’15, compared to Q2’14, says IDC. 2.8 million units were shipped. 2-in-1 (hybrid) devices experienced the greatest annual decline, with …

Tags:Europe| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 22 - Issue 33

China Makers Raise Panel Market Share

by Tom Allen

According to China’s Sigmaintell Consulting, BOE, CSOT and Nanjing CEC Panda together shipped 79.4 million large-size TFT-LCD panels in the first half of the year. This is a 16% YoY increase and represents 20.3% …

Scala Certifies NEC Player

by Tom Allen

Scala has added NEC’s OPS digital player system (OPS-DRD) to its certified Android player family. The OPS-DRD is an all-in-one solution for managing dynamic displays in cost-sensitive, heavy-volume segments. Video resolutions up to 1920 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Media Players| NEC| Vol 22 - Issue 33

When Will Elasticity Kick-in?

by David Barnes

“When will elasticity kick-in”? That question posed by an investment banker before taking LG Display public in 2004 seems pertinent today, a dozen years later. My answer then was that elasticity will kick-out, not …

Tags:AUO| LG Displays (LGD)| Pricing| Vol 22 - Issue 33

Rapid Rise for OLED Materials

by Tom Allen

AMOLED material consumption will ‘surge’ in the second half of 2015, says IHS, as LG Display increases production of its WOLED TV panels. The WOLED material market was worth $58 million in the first …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Materials| Vol 22 - Issue 33

Samsung, LG, Philips and Sony Recognised in EISA Awards

by Tom Allen

Winners of the 2015-2016 EISA awards, from the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), have been announced. The group named Philips’ 55PUS7600 as the ‘Best Buy TV’ winner; LG’s 65EG960V for ‘European Home Theatre …