Vol 25 – Issue 21 – Page 9

BC06 Corning Suggests Sustainable G10.5 Growth

by Bob Raikes

Chris Hudson is from Corning where he is International Division VP and Commercial Director and he talked what Corning likes to describe as the current ‘glass age’. The company is 165 years old and …

BC05 Applied Materials Explains Boost in Capex

by Bob Raikes

Max McDaniel is from Applied Materials, the production equipment maker, where he is CMO for the Display and Flexible Technology group. Applied Materials is 50 years old, started in Mountain View, California and is …

BC04 MicroLED Continues to Throw up New Challenges

by Bob Raikes

Eric Virey is from Yole Développement and we have reported on his talks several times. He looked at MicroLED, asking if it was a viable alternative to OLED and LCD? LED as a technology …

BC03 A ‘Refreshing’ View from China

by Bob Raikes

Lisa Lee is from Sigmaintell in China and this was the first time that she, or the firm, has presented at SID and her talk was called ‘Refreshing’. Market growth in the panel industry …

BC02 Mizhuo Thinks Investment is a ‘Bit Crazy’

by Bob Raikes

Nakane-san is from Mizhuo Securities and, like Ross Young, the previous speaker, he is another veteran of the display industry. He had more than 150 slides – also with a lot of text! Not …

New AI Solution Designed to Reduce Motion Sickness in VR

by Andrew Fenn

LG Display and a group of researchers from Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, led by their professor Kang Seok-ju, have developed tools to measure and reduce motion-to-photon latency and motion blur in VR, …

SID’s AR/VR Week 2018

by Matthew Brennesholtz

VR Week in Los Angeles (more commonly called Display Week) is over and all the Meko people who attended are busy writing up their coverage of the event for the upcoming Display Week special …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SID Display Week 2018| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 21

BC01 Young Sets out the Development of LCDs & OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker was Ross Young, who talked about the year and introduced DSCC which is now two years old and has eight employees. The company now has four OLED reports, two display cost …

Kobo Has a new eEreader

by Bob Raikes

Kobo has a new entry level eReader that has a 6″ E Ink display with 300 ppi. When we spotted the story, we were intrigued by a comment about the colour of the display, …

Tags:E Ink| EPD (Electrophoretic)| eReaders| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Canalys Looks for Stability from PC & Tablet Markets

by Bob Raikes

UK-based Analyst, Canalys, has forecast that PCs this year will enter an ‘era of stability’ and that PCs and tablets combined will drop 2.1% this year to 398 million units. In the commercial sector, …

Xiaomi Opens New Retail Store in Europe

by Andrew Fenn

Xiaomi has opened a bricks-and-mortar store in Paris, France. The store sells smartphones and accessories, including speakers, while an on-site showroom displays products that aren’t available yet, which isn’t just limited to smartphone products …

Tags:France| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 21| Xiaomi

Fujitsu 34″ Monitor is Curved

by Bob Raikes

Fujitsu has a new monitor for professional applications, the Display B34-9U LED which has a 34.1″ diagonal (3440 x 1440) curved (1900R) design that will be available in Japan from July at ¥270,000 ($2,479). …

Tags:Curved Displays| Desktop Monitors| Fujitsu| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 21