Vol 24 – Issue 21 – Page 9

Gigabyte Adds Thunderbolt Box, Front HDMI and UHD Blu-ray on a PC

by Milos Pavlovic

At Computex, Gigabyte was showing the Aorus brand, which it is now using for its high end gaming PCs. The brand was run separately from the firm’s OEM/ODM business, but it is now being …

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JMC Looks to Edge to Edge OLED

by Bob Raikes

JMC Electronics, which is part of Chang Wah Electromaterials (CWE) is optimistic about the demand for edge-to-edge OLEDs for smartphones and also for OLED TVs. The firm has chip-on-film technology that is usable for …

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Media Consumption Via Mobile Will Rise

by Yvette Raikes

By 2019, 26% of media consumption will be mobile, according to forecasts from Zenith. It was 19% in 2016. Back in 2010, people spent just 10 minutes a day browsing on the mobile internet, …

Neotion adds Arris and Viaccess-Orca CAMs

by Milos Pavlovic

Neotion has announced two new CAMs for Arris Titanium and for Viaccess-Orca. The Arris product supports Arris’s Titanium Content Security solution for DVB cardless Pay-TV whatever the reception mode: satellite, terrestrial or cable. It …

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SID Hosts AR/VR Week

by Matthew Brennesholtz

Of course, the official name is “Display Week,” not AR/VR Week, but if you were an Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) person, there was enough to keep you busy all week long, …

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BC05 Mizhou Looks at Finance and Supply

by Bob Raikes

Yasuo Nakane is an analyst from Mizhuo Securities where he looks at the display industry and was introduced by Young as a highly respected analyst in the FPD industry. If you think that Ross …

BC04 BOE Looks to Re-Pivot to IoT & Medical

by Bob Raikes

BOE Technology is doing well, said Leono Guo, the GM of the firm’s overseas business, and it’s the top supplier of panels for smartphones, tablets and notebooks, and it’s the second largest for monitors …

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BC03 Corning Looking for Boost from LGPs

by Bob Raikes

John Zhang introduced his company, Corning, where he is a VP and General Manager. The company sees itself as a centre of glass science, optical physics and ceramic science – with unique fusion drawing …

BC02 Applied Materials Says Industry to Move from Components to Processes

by Bob Raikes

Dr Brian Hsieh is from Applied Materials which makes equipment for high technology markets and is now 50 years old. It makes semiconductor equipment as well as display equipment and generated $2.1 billion in …

Acer Gaming Notebook has Unusual Touchpad

by Bob Raikes

At Computex, Acer has shown the Predator Triton 700 gaming notebook which uses a 15.6″ FullHD IPS display in an 18.9mm thick case. Unusually, the keyboard is on the front edge of the base, …

BC01 DSCC Business Conference is Successful

by Bob Raikes

Yong-Seog Kim, the President of the SID, opened the Business Conference, which took place on the day before the main exhibition and Symposium, by saying that the industry is in a great period of …

LEDs and Moving LCDs Show the Brain

by Yvette Raikes

Columbia University has installed a 20′ (6.1m) LED wall fitted with seven 72″ LCD monitors which slide up and down on side by side tracks, sharpening the images behind them. Brain Index shows the …

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