Vol 24 – Issue 01 – Page 4

Panel Makers See Good End to Year

by Yvette Raikes

AU Optronics announced December turnover of NTD31.16 billion ($984.7 million), up 21% YoY. This brought Q4 sales to NTD91.85 billion ($2.9 billion), a rise of 10% YoY, and revenue for the year to NTD329.09 …

Many TV Panel Prices up in January

by Bob Raikes

Witsview of Taiwan said that TV panels have continued to rise in price, with 40″ and 43″ panels up $2 to $3 on the month and with 49″ and 50″ up by $3 to …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| Pricing| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Samsung Gives a Good TV a Bad Name — Again

by Ken Werner

At CES last week Samsung introduced its new “QLED” TV technology, but it’s not what the technical community would call QLED. We’d better get used to it, though. When Samsung’s marketing army decides to …

Tags:Quantum Dots| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Canon to Show new 4K Projector at ISE

by Bob Raikes

Canon said that it will show its new Xeed 4K600STZ laser phosphor projector at the forthcoming ISE show. The unit has 4096 x 2400 resolution with 6000 Ansi lumens of output. The demo will …

Global semiconductor sales up 7% YoY

by Bob Raikes

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said that sales of semiconductors reached $31 billion in November, up 7.4% year on year and 2.0 up on October, the best annual growth since January 2015. The Chinese …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Digitimes Research Forecasts LED Volumes

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research forecast that that 303 billion LEDs will ship in 2017, 23.9% up year on year, but with ASPs likely to decline by 17%. 200 billion units are expected to go into lighting, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Wipro Supplies Middleware for Hisense Japan

by Bob Raikes

Wipro said that its middleware is being used by Hisense for UltraHD TVs in Japan. Features include support for ISDB-T/S standards and HD-PVR functions and can support OSes including Android TV, Linux and QNX. …

Tags:Back Panel| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Large Display Monitor| Software| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Socionext Adopts PowerVR (and Teradici)

by Bob Raikes

Imagination Technologies said that its PowerVR video cores have been used by Socionext, the Panasonic-Fujitsu J/V, in its SoCs. In checking this story, we spotted that in November, Socionext also announced a deal to …

Tags:Back Panel| Imagination Tech| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01

MStar announces support for Nagra’s TVkey

by Bob Raikes

MStar has said that it will integrate support for Nagra’s TVKey technology pending finalisation of a new TVkey licensing body. The MStar EMC TVkey integration is intended to enable pay-TV service providers to deliver …

Tags:DRM & Content Protection| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Security| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Introducing the Linq Mixed Reality Headset

by Arthur Berman

The creation of the ZED stereo camera required Stereolabs, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) to develop depth and motion sensing technology. The company has now gone on to use these technologies in the production of …

Tags:Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 01

Eutelsat Boosts Ultra HD Content

by Bob Raikes

Satellite operator, Eutelsat Communications, has said that it has launched two new UltraHD channels on its Hotbird platform. The channels are Fashion TV’s FTV UHD and Travelxp 5K. Both have multi-year agreements for EMEA. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Satellite| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 01

SDP Heading for IPO?

by Bob Raikes

The Nikkei has reported that Foxconn and its Sharp subsidiary may be considering an IPO for the Sakai Display Products business. The comments follow the news about a new investment in China (New SDP …