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Toshiba Result 09/09/2015

by Helen Vince

As forecast, Toshiba Corp. reported a net loss for last year of ¥37.8 billion ($311.9 million) on turnover of ¥6.6 trillion ($54.5 billion) and has re-stated its earnings for the last six years. Write …

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Radiant Opto’s Sales 33% Higher YoY

by Helen Vince

Radiant Opto-Electronic saw sales in August rise 48.3% sequentially and 33% year on year to NT$5.1 billion ($157.4 million), bringing sales to date to NT$27.3 billion ($842.8 million), down 13.6% compared with the same …

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Mediatek Has Ups and Downs

by Helen Vince

Mediatek’s August performance was better than July, with sales rising 6.1% to NT$19 billion ($586.5 million), though this was down 3.3% year on year. Sales for January to August were down 5.4% from the …

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iPhone’s New 3D Touch Display

by Steve Sechrist

Now, just hours away from the the world’s best selling Smartphone next gen product launch, (Sept 9) rumors of a new 3D Touch Display are dominating the news for the newest iPhone (6S and …

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Panasonic’s OLED TV is a Success for LG Display

by Bob Raikes

At this year’s IFA show in Berlin (think CES for Europe), one of the big stories was the arrival of the first commercial OLED TV from Panasonic. Panasonic’s curved OLED has a lot of …

TCL Invests in Colour and Contrast

by Tom Allen

With Toshiba moving to Hall 12, TCL had more room at this year’s show – its stand had been doubled in size, to 1,700m². With the size of the TVs the company was showing, …

JVC Steals Show With Automotive Entry

by Tom Allen

JVC Kenwood does not normally have new display products at IFA, instead focusing on audio, so we were pleasantly surprised to find enough interesting topics to take an hour of our time! The flagship …

CPT’s August Sales Up 15% MoM

by Helen Vince

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) saw sales in August increase 15.6% from July to NT$4 billion ($123.5 million), though this was 11% lower than August 2014. CPT’s cumulative sales so far this year reached NT$32.2 …

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Hannstar’s Sales & Shipments Declined in August

by Helen Vince

Hannstar Display saw sales and panel shipments fall in August, both month on month and year on year. Sales for the month of NT$1.3 billion ($40.1 million) were 5% lower than July and 27.2% …

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AUO’s August Sales Dip 14% YoY

by Helen Vince

AU Optronics (AUO) reported an 11.3% month on month increase in sales in August to NT$30.5 billion ($938.1 million), though this was 14.1% down on August 2014. Sales for the first eight months of …

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Sharp is Too Private

by Tom Allen

Sharp’s presence this year was extremely disappointing. Although the stand was quite large, and in a central location in Hall 6, most of it was private. There was no-one around to answer questions, and …

Seiki Wants to Stir Up Existing Markets

by Tom Allen

Tongfang Global is the Chinese company that owns the Seiki and Orion TV brands – the former being the most well-known. As Seiki, the company launched what was at the time the world’s cheapest …