Vol 24 – Issue 01 – Display Daily

CES is Lively

by Bob Raikes

This week we catch up with the general news from the last couple of weeks. We are working on the CES report and you can keep track on the website with our full report. …

Ultra-high Efficiency Blue LEDs

by Matthew Brennesholtz

High efficiency is one of the goals driving the development of LEDs for lighting, television and mobile devices. Since the display, including backlight, on a mobile device like a smartphone is one of the …

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Smartphone Opportunities and ‘Price Gravity’

by Bob Raikes

The most important consumer device is now the smartphone, not the TV, and that means that there are lots of ways to exploit the investment of buyers. At CES, I saw a couple of …

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IDC Says PC Market Stabilizes with Solid Q4 Shipments

by Bob Raikes

IDC said that worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (Desktop, Notebook, and Workstation) totalled 70.2 million units in the Q4 2016, a year-on-year decline of 1.5%, the fifth year of decline since 2012. Annual shipments …

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DCS To Look at HDR and HFR

by Bob Raikes

The Digital Cinema Society in Hollywood is running an event at Sony Studios, Culver City, California on the 9th February from 1.00pm to 4.00pm when Sony will be showing its FS5 and F65 as …

KOE Rugged+ Displays Have Zero Bright Defects

by Bob Raikes

KOE of Taiwan, which is the division of JDI that looks after ruggedised and customised displays, has introduced a zero bright defect for its Rugged+ modules. The new Zero Dot Defect Rugged+ displays are …

Notebook Makers See Mixed December Results

by Yvette Raikes

Quanta Computer recorded its second highest monthly turnover of NTD104.97 billion ($3.3 billion) for December, up 8% YoY, bringing revenue for the year to NTD894 billion ($28.3 billion), down 11%. The company shipped 3.9 …

Pegatron Sales Down in December

by Yvette Raikes

Pegatron posted December turnover of NTD84.0 billion ($569.8 million), down 27% YoY, resulting in revenue for the year of NTD1.16 trillion ($36.6 billion), down 4.6%.

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Foxconn Posts December Results

by Yvette Raikes

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) saw December revenue of NTD449.6 billion ($14.2 billion), up 10% YoY. This brought Q4 sales to NTD1.4 trillion ($44.3 billion), down 2%, and annual turnover to NTD4.36 trillion …

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AUO Claims 9M Curved TVs Sold in 2016

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes of Taiwan has reported AUO as saying that it believes that 8.6 million curved TVs were sold in 2016, up 125% on 2015. As much as 5% of the Chinese market is choosing …

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Ingram To Sell Moto in Switzerland

by Milos Pavlovic

Ingram Micro in Switzerland will start to sell Lenovo’s Moto smartphones according to IT Reseller Schweiz.

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Ingram Micro Returns to Nordics

by Bob Raikes

We hear that Ingram Micro is planning to open new sales offices in Denmark, Finland and Norway after dropping back to just Sweden in 2009. The Danish business was sold to Also. The firm …

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