Vol 23 – Issue 09 – Page 6

Process Flow and Display Backplane Evolution

by Steve Sechrist

Chances are you missed the Recent SID Webinar on display backplane evolution given by SID Fellow Dr. John Wager, professor at the school of EECS, Oregon State University. Wager said important to the evolution …

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Beneq Exploits EL Advantages

by Bob Raikes

Beneq is the name of the business that is developing EL displays in Espoo, Finland and was at one time owned by Planar. Beneq’s display is being used in laser dentistry equipment. Image:Meko The …

AR Versus VR Turns into AR and VR

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a brand new patent application, Microsoft claims a technology that would create a head-mounted display that is capable of acting as AR and VR glasses. The patent (US patent application 2015/045779), titled ‘Head-Mounted …

Mitsubishi Pushes LCD Operating Specs

by Bob Raikes

The first booth we looked at during Embedded World was the Mitsubishi booth. Although the company only has limited capacity for LCD manufacture, it focuses on special and industrial displays. One of the items …

Plenty To See at ED/Embedded World

by Bob Raikes

We managed to get a few hours at the Electronic Displays Conference in Nuremberg which runs alongside the Embedded World trade show. This is an interesting show for industrial applications of displays, but both …

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Hendy Highlights “Race to the Bottom”

by Bob Raikes

The final speaker that we heard was Ian Hendy of Hendy Consulting which looks at the finances and development of the supply side of the display industry. His talk was entitled “Race to the …

Are Chinese Companies Gaining Control of Displays?

by Bob Raikes

Paul Gray of IHS then gave a display market overview which he called “Chinese Companies Gaining Control”. He said that the current “spreading unhappiness” is a logical consequence of the events of recent years. …

Opportunities for Added Value in Large Displays

by Bob Raikes

Our own Managing Editor, Bob Raikes, opened up the afternoon session by looking at the development of the large display markets in Europe. He said that he chose the topic because there are real …

Displays in Cars To Include OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

OS Yang is from Samsung Display where he looks after new business in automotive and PIDs. Following up the mention of video walls by Raikes, he said that Samsung Display sells 72% of all …

DVIGear Supports High-Res Multiview

by Tom Allen

DVIGear has expanded its switching and scaling portfolio with the DVI-3580a, an UltraHD multiviewer switcher/scaler. The unit can accept up to seven video inputs: HDMI or DVI (x4), DisplayPort (x2) and VGA. Input formats …

TREASORES Develops Thin, Flexible Electrodes

by Tom Allen

The TREASORES project ((Transparent Electrodes for Large Area Large Scale Production of Organic Optoelectronic Devices) is a European project, established in late 2012, aiming to develop technologies to reduce the production costs of certain …

IHS: FPD Revenue Will Reach 4-Year Low

by Tom Allen

Global flat-panel display (FPD) revenue will shrink by 6% YoY this year, to $120 billion, according to estimates from IHS. This represents the lowest result since 2012. “The industry has begun to question whether …