Vol 23 – Issue 45 – Page 4

Korean Equipment Manufacturers Thrive

by Bob Raikes

The ETNews in Korea said that Korean display manufacturing equipment companies are having a good year because of the strong investment by Korean panel makers in OLED fabs. The paper highlighted SFA, AP Systems, …

Globomatik Expands Portfolio

by Isaac Oburu

Globomatik is now distributing Weimei smartphones in Spain.

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IMax Gets VR Investment from Acer

by Bob Raikes

We have reported several times on the developments by Imax of its VR event plans (Acer Jumps onto Gaze for Monitors & PCs). Now the company has announced a $50 million fund to finance …

MicroVision and STMs Collaborate on MEMs

by Bob Raikes

Microvision and STMicroelectronics are working together to develop, sell, and market Laser Beam Scanning (LBS) technology. In addition to the pico projection and heads-up display (HUD) markets that both companies are currently addressing with …

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Clevo Reaches Notebook Record in October

by Yvette Raikes

Clevo saw Q3 net profits of NTD34.7 million ($1.1 million) on turnover of NTD4.9 billion ($154 million). This brought earnings for the nine months to NTD356.7 million ($11.2 billion) on revenue of NTD14.0 billion …

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Vuzix Wins CES Awards for Blade 3000

by Bob Raikes

Vuzix said that it has won four International CES Innovation 2017 awards, for its upcoming Blade 3000 Smart Sunglasses. The Blade 3000 supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and wirelessly displaying virtual information. Vuzix Blade …

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Inventec Results 15/11/2016

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Inventec Corp. announced its Q3 2016 results with sales of NT$111.65 bn ($3.5 bn) and net profit of NT$676.7 mn ($21.3 mn), resulting in a profit margin of 0.6%. The Q3 sales were marginally …

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AirFuel Alliance Pushes Wireless for PCs

by Bob Raikes

The AirFuel Alliance has formed a new PC Task Forces including Dell, Lenovo, STMicroelectronics and others to further the evolution of wireless charging for PCs. The task force will work towards encouraging all PC …

Eutelsat and Broadpeak for IP to Mobile

by Bob Raikes

Eutelsat and Broadpeak said that they have collaborated to deliver live TV and VOD over satellite to mobile devices. The idea is to use the Broadpeak CDN network to drive content through the Eutelsat …

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SNL Kagan Looks at US Multichannel and European SVOD

by Bob Raikes

SNL Kagan released the latest report on the US multichannel subscriber report and said that the combined cable, Direct-broadcast-satellite (DBS) and telecommunications (telco) sectors lost 430,000 video customers during the period. DBS ended in …

News Outlets in the US Point at AR Glasses from Apple

by Norbert Hildebrand

A whole range of news outlets (Bloomberg, CNBC, USA Today, The Verge among others) reported on the possibility that Apple is intensifying its work on augmented reality glasses and plan to release a AR …

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Displays at CES Unveiled

by Matthew Brennesholtz

CES Unveiled was held in New York on November 10th. It is mainly a press event, intended to get press coverage of the upcoming CES 2017 and present Consumer Technology Association (CTA) forecasts for …