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Q3 PC Gains Do Not Suggest Recovery

by Raverstead

IDC has forecast a 2.7% fall in global PC shipments this year. Although still negative, this represents an improvement from the previous -3.7% forecast. Q3 shipments were down 0.5% YoY, but ‘most regions and …

Tags:Forecasts| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 21 - Issue 47| Worldwide

TV Shipments Rebound After Soft First Half

by Raverstead

TV shipments climbed 4% YoY in Q3’14, following several quarters of low results – average TV shipment growth was less than 1% on both a unit and revenue basis in the first half of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD DisplaySearch| TV Production| Vol 21 - Issue 47| Worldwide

Dell Does Well in the PC Market

by Helen Vince

PC – Max Smolaks from the Tech Week Europe reports on the highlights of Michael Dell’s speech at Dell’s Solutions Summit in Brussels. Just a year after Dell delisted from the stock market, many …

Tags:Dell| Large Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 21 - Issue 38| Volume 21| Worldwide

Tablets Fall, but Emerging Regions Rise

by Super User

IDC’s tablet-plus-hybrid forecast for 2014 has been reduced to 233.1 million units. The new figure represents a 6.5% YoY growth rate: significantly below the previous prediction of 12.1% growth. “[I]t would be easy to …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21| Worldwide

Exceptional 3D Available Worldwide

by Super User

Exceptional 3D says that its no-glasses 3D digital signage displays are now available in almost every country or region worldwide, through newly established distribution centres.

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Digital Signage| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21| Worldwide

Chinese Vendors Drive White-Box Growth

by Super User

Gartner predicts that white-box mobile devices will grow strongly this year: smartphones rising 50% YoY and tablets 15.6%. White-box products are typically aimed at the lower-end of the market, and Gartner expects both established …

Tags:Gartner| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide

Panel Shipments to Rise in Coming Years

by Super User

Reports from Asia, quoting ‘market observers’, claim that TV panel shipments will rise 2.7% YoY this year, to 217 million units, and 3.5% next year. The market will be bolstered by recovering growth in …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| large displays| TV Production| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21| Worldwide

Low-Cost Vendors to Challenge Tier Ones

by Super User

Juniper Research has said that smartphone shipments will reach 1.2 billion this year: a 19% YoY rise from 2013’s 985 million. Emerging markets, with high uptake of low-cost models, will drive growth. Products from …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide

Connected Sets Approach 1 Billion in 2020

by Super User

Digital TV Research predicts that almost 1 billion TV sets (965 million) worldwide will be connected to the internet by 2020; up from 339 million expected at the end of this year. The figure …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide

Q2 Marks End to Workstations’ Sideways Movement

by Super User

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has referred to the workstation market’s Q2’14 as a ‘breakout quarter’ (while admitting that characterising a mature market as ‘breakout’ “verges upon [an] oxymoron”). Q2 saw record levels of unit …

Tags:Jon Peddie Research (JPR)| Large Display Monitor| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide

Taiwan Doubles Global Semiconductor Growth in 2015

by Super User

The global semiconductor market will be valued at $336.3 billion next year, a 3.1% YoY rise, says Taiwan’s MIC. Primarily this is due to the Apple Watch and new Internet of Things products. Taiwan’s …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide

UltraHD TV Panels Exceed 470% Growth

by Super User

Worldwide UltraHD panel shipments will exceed 17.2 million units this year – a 473.4% increase on 2013. Data from Taiwan’s MIC shows that these units underwent a 178.8% QoQ increase in Q2, almost reaching …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Large LCD Supply| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide