Vol 24 - Issue 16

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Chinese Panel Makers Aggressive on Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes has reported that Chinese smartphone panel makers are cutting prices to try to win more business from Chinese and Taiwanese smartphone brands. The site reports that a special promotion by Tianma has led …

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AUO Result 27/04/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

AU Optronics announced FY17 Q1 result with consolidated sales of NT$88.5 billion ($2.9 billion) and net profit of NT$9.5 billion ($313.5 million), resulting in a net profit margin of 10.7 %. The sales took …

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Witsview Puts Samsung at #5 for TV Panels

by Bob Raikes

Witsview has released its Q1 TV panel data and is slightly more conservative than Sigmaintell. The company has released the volume by panel maker for the majors.

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Peach Announces Liquid Crystal Technology as a Screen Protector

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a press release Peach, a Swiss company for office products and subsidiary of 3T Supplies AG, announced the availability of PA109, a liquid crystal technology that makes displays as hard as sapphire, it …

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Ingram Result 25/04/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Ingram Micro announced its FY16 Q4 result with consolidated sales of $12.2 billion and operating profit of $4.8 million and a net loss of $34.6 million. Compared on a yearly basis, the quarterly sales …

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Hungary’s TV2 Studio Revamped by Absen UHD LEDs

by Alan Spencer

Hungary’s TV news channel, TV2’s Tenyek, has carried out a studio redesign to show videos, pictures and graphics relating to the news stories. The studio design included a large and curved background surround display, …

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Fitbit Hits the News Twice

by Bob Raikes

Fitbit hit the news a couple of times this week, with positive and negative news coming. On a positive note, data from a murder victim’s Fitbit showed that she was alive for some time …

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What Happened to Non-Digital Displays?

by Kenneth Li

In the 21st century, the word “DISPLAY” automatically equates to some kind of digital display. It could be a computer monitor, an LCD television, an LED video display, etc. Not too may years ago, …

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Shaun the Sheep to Enter VR World

by Alan Spencer

Aardman is to launch a Shaun the Sheep video in VR, entitled “Shaun the Sheep Movie Barn VR”, and joins a handful of other international children’s brands who have made VR content available to …

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Litemax Wins Award for ‘square’ LCD

by Bob Raikes

Litemax of Taiwan has won a Taiwan Outstanding Photonics Product award for its 42″ ‘square’ SSD4215 LCD which has 1920 x 2160 resolution (8:9) with 800 cd/m² and is cut to size by the …

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LG Display Result 26/04/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

LG Display announced its FY17 Q1 result with revenue at KRW 7,062 billion ($6.2 billion) and net income at KRW 679 billion ($597.5 million), resulting in a net margin of 9.6%. The revenue increased …

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Celestica Result 26/04/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Celestica announced its FY17 Q1 financial result with revenue of $1.47 billion, with an increase of 9% on yearly basis and an operating margin of 3.6%. The operating margin indicated a marginal increase over …

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