Vol 24 – Issue 05 – Page 3

Vietnam’s Government To Approve Samsung Display’s Plans

by Alan Spencer

Samsung Display’s plans are to be officially approved by the North Vietnam government. Samsung will carry out expansion for five years starting in 2018, bringing the sum to be invested in the project to …

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Is Sharp Plan for LCD in US Firming?

by Milos Pavlovic

The Nikkei has quoted an executive at Sharp as saying that the firm would take the lead in a plan to build a new LCD fab in the US, with investment mainly from Sharp …

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ISE – Not for the Faint of Heart

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Tuesday, February 7th was the opening day for Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) at the RAI in Amsterdam. This is the 14th ISE and is the biggest of all. As of 7:30 on opening day, …

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LG Constructing New OLED Plant

by Alan Spencer

ETNews is reporting that LG Display is constructing a new OLED fabrication plant (P10) with a planned finish by Q2 2018, although it is likely that mass production will take a bit longer to …

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BOE Display To Invest In New $145 million OLED TV Production Line

by Alan Spencer

BOE Display has announced that it has signed an agreement with the Hefei municipal government to co-invest one billion CNY (around $145 million) in a new OLED TV production line. BOE will invest 80% …

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Loewe Brings UltraHD Down to 40″

by Bob Raikes

Loewe has released its latest ‘bild 5’ range of edge-lit LCD TVs in Europe. The UltraHD sets (except the 32″ which is FullHD) will range in size from 32″ to 55″ and will be …

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IDC Forecast IT Spending Growth of More Than 3% To 2020

by Alan Spencer

Worldwide revenues for IT products and services are forecast to reach nearly $2.4 trillion in 2017, an increase of 3.5% over 2016. IDC estimates that global IT spending will grow to nearly $2.65 trillion …

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Winners of Stereo 3D Competition

by Bob Raikes

As part of the 28th annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference in San Francisco, a number of awards were made for 3D content. Best-of-Show Live-Action Category:”From Great Depths 3D – Witnessing the Wrecks …

MediaTek Comments on Patent Case Brought by AMD

by Alan Spencer

AMD has accused MediaTek, LG, Sigma Designs and Vizio of infringing its graphics processing patents. MediaTek has responded by issuing a company filing through the Taiwan Stock Exchange in response. MediaTek confirmed that the …

Vizio Fined US$2.2 million by FTC

by Alan Spencer

LCD TV vendor Vizio was accused of installing software on its TVs to collect viewing data on eleven million consumer TVs without consumers’ knowledge or consent. In settlement, Vizio has agreed to pay US$2.2 …

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MediaTek Chipset Supports Dual-camera Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

MediaTek has released the Helio P25, which uses 16nm Octa core processing and supports single or dual cameras (24 MP or dual 13 MP) with de-noise algorithms and real time shallow depth of field …

Altice USA and Nagra Form Agreement on Content Protection

by Alan Spencer

Nagra and Altice USA have announced an agreement whereby Nagra will provide Altice USA with a content protection and innovation platform to enable encryption and content security for its HD and 4K offerings. Nagra, …

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