Vol 23 – Issue 10 – Page 2

LGD Plans G5 OLED Plant

by Tom Allen

LG Display is to construct a G5 OLED lighting fab in Gumi, South Korea. Initial capacity will be 15,000 substrates, which could be ramped up ‘depending on the market situation’. Analyst Comment LG showed …

SDC Prepares for Transparent and Mirror Rollout

by Tom Allen

Samsung Display unveiled its 55″ transparent and mirrored OLED products in June last year, as part of an exhibit at the Hong Kong Convention Centre. Since then, we have seen them at shows including …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mirror Displays| Samsung Display| Transparent Displays| Vol 23 - Issue 10

ZTE to Appeal Against Ban

by Tom Allen

ZTE will appeal against the export restrictions placed on it by the USA (US Bans Exports to ZTE), according to sources speaking to the Shanghai Daily. ‘A senior commerce department official’ said, “The US …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 10| ZTE

ASE Fails in SPIL Bid

by Tom Allen

The acquisition of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has not been approved, following a failure to gain antitrust approval. Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission neither accepted nor denied the application, which …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Spectral Edge Enables Server-Based Correction

by Tom Allen

Spectral Edge, which developed the Eyeteq colour correction system (Spectral Edge’s HDMI Adapter Compensates for Colour Blindness), has launched a server-based version of its technology. It is an alternative to the existing HDMI adapter. …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 10

Sky Promises 4k This Summer

by Tom Allen

Sky will roll out its own UltraHD content to the new Sky Q set-top box, the Sky Q Silver, this summer. The company’s strategy director, Nick Hern (speaking at the Connected TV Summit in …

Halle 6 Technology Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

We went to Hall 6 where the R&D departments were showing what they had, but there was only limited interest for us. Most of the research being show was in the area of big …

CeBIT Round Up

by Bob Raikes

Huawei was keen to make an impression and had a big booth highlighting its capabilities in communications. We spotted a demonstration of an ip camera that supports the H.265 codec that was running 1080P …

CeBIT Demise Accelerates….

by Bob Raikes

CeBIT (or SnowBIT as it is often called by those that have experienced it) is one of the great institutions of the computing world. I first went (multiple times) in the 1980s and early …

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Dashbon Boombox Includes a Projector

by Bob Raikes

Dashbon was a new name to us and the company was showing its Flicks boombox. This is a full projection system that is built into a unit that includes a full featured audio system …

Zotac Has Mini-PC with 6 Outputs – and 12/24 on the Way

by Bob Raikes

Zotac is not a company that we have often spoken to. From a start making Nvidia-based graphics cards, which it was also showing at CeBIT (with all of the water cooling and other high …

CeBIT Reseller Hall Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Acer was on the API booth and was said that in monitors, it was currently a case of “Go bigger or go home”. It said that interest in 21:9 models is increasing and that …