Display Technology News Roundup 02.12.21

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Planar To Unveil New Line of 4K Commercial LCD Displays at LAVNCH WEEK 3.0 "Planar will unveil its Planar UltraRes X Series, a line of 4K resolution (3840×2160) commercial-grade LCD displays featuring 700-nit brightness and a wide color gamut perfect for High Dynamic Range (HDR) content." via rAVe [Europe]

Samsung to release QD-LED TVs next year as LCD production continues "Samsung Display will continue manufacturing LCD panels for Samsung Electronics beyond the previously-established deadline, while the consumer arm will make a commitment to QD-LED starting next year." via SamMobile

Corning expands its Gen 10.5 LCD glass production in China "Corning has announced that it is currently expanding the production of its Gen 10.5 liquid crystal display (LCD) glass substrate factories in China. The move arrives after high demand for TVs and other IT products." via GizmoChina

Samsung Display to Sell LCD Fab in Suzhou "The company’s manufacturing plant in Suzhou has the 8.5th-generation LCD technology, which is a core technology of South Korea and requires a government approval for overseas transfer. However, South Korean display manufacturers are already shifting towards quantum dot and OLED and the importance of LCD is already dwindling." via BusinessKorea

LCD panel makers post sequential falls for January revenues "LCD panel makers AU Optronics (AUO) and HannStar Display, as well as related component suppliers including Radiant Opto-Electronics, Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) and FineMat Applied Materials, all saw their consolidated revenues decrease sequentially in January 2021." via DigiTimes

Apple reportedly partners with TSMC to develop micro OLED displays "The iPhone maker is collaborating with its longtime chip supplier because, unlike conventional LCD screens in smartphones and TVs, micro OLED displays are built directly onto wafers instead of glass substrates." via c|net

Display Technology News Roundup 04.10.20

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Samsung’s exit from LCDs opens up Chinese consolidation "These changes in the LCD display market are likely to accompany consolidation among players in China, possibly benefiting China Star, which could acquire SDC Suzhou and CHOT, while BOE acquires CEC Panda. With such moves, China Star would control 23% of the market while BOE would control 34%, Young predicted." via FierceElectronics

Apple Buys Stake in Japan Display’s LCD Hakusan Plant "Japan Display will likely use the proceeds from selling the LCD equipment to repay loans. The company took loans to fund the construction of the Hakusan plant, which cost $1.5 billion." via Market Realist

Corning winds down manufacturing at Shizuoka LCD glass substrate facility "Corning has disclosed that its LCD glass substrate facility in Shizuoka, Japan will stop manufacturing operations by year-end 2020 to ensure the company's operations are aligned with the display industry's current business environment." via DigiTimes

"Flexible temporary electronic displays may one day make it possible to sport a glowing tattoo or check a reading, like that of a stopwatch, directly on the skin. In its current form, however, this technology generally depends on plastic." via Science Daily

Innolux says production, delivery not affected despite hacking "It maintained the part of the operating systems that had been affected would be fixed during the day without hindering its production and delivery." via DigiTimes

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 08.23.19

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Samsung Display cuts LCD output "Samsung Display has scaled down its liquid crystal display (LCD) business amid intensifying competition with Chinese competitors and falling prices, shifting its focus to organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), according to industry analysts, Wednesday." via The Korea Times

Corning Partners CCPD to Use Astra Glass for Oxide-LCD Line "The company's Astra Glass has been chosen by Chengdu CEC Panda Display Technology Co., Ltd. (CCPD) for its line of oxide-TFT LCD panels used mainly for high-performance, large-size TVs and monitors." via Nasdaq

Glass-free organic LCD boasts ultra-narrow border "A provider of flexible organic electronics, FlexEnable has developed an ultra-narrow border organic LCD (OLCD). By exploiting the truly flexible nature of the organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) on which OLCD is based, it is now possible to fold the borders behind the display." via eeNews Europe

Eyes on Sony’s CLED (Crystal LED) display technology: Samsung isn’t the only player in the Micro LED game "It’s clear to me that Micro LED in general, and Sony’s CLED in particular, represents the future of video displays. This technology offers true HDR and super-high resolution on very large screens, opening the door to almost limitless possibilities." via TechHive.com

Trade War Heats Up Again As China Sets Tariffs On $75 Billion In U.S. Goods, Autos "China says it will slap tariffs on autos, auto parts and thousands of other U.S. goods worth a total of $75 billion. Friday's announcement marks an escalation in a trade war that has rippled through the world economy and raised fears of a U.S. recession." via NPR

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 06.07.18

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Vuzix AR glasses to feature Plessey's microLEDs "...Vuzix president and CEO Paul Travers described the microLED technology as potentially a “major enabler” of the future of augmented reality. He said that as well as delivering high-efficiency, low-power and small-size illumination capabilities, the very high level of luminescence delivered would lead to sleeker form factors..." via Optics.Org

Ultrastable Films Could Boost OLED Performance "...A research team from Spain and Germany has now offered a surprisingly simple way to boost both OLED efficiency and stability by 15 percent or possibly much more, across a range of OLED devices and without a change in materials or device architecture..." via Optics & Photonics News

LG switches airport OLED to LCD amid burn-in row "...LG attempted to install a new OLED TV in its place but opted for a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) model ... instead. It was not confident in solving the fundamental issue of burn-in by replacing it with another OLED..." via ZDNet

LG Display to Stay Reliant on LCDs Even as Phones Shift to OLED "...While LG Display carved out a strong position in large OLED screens, such as those for TVs, Samsung bet big on the market for smaller sizes and now dominates output for mobiles and secured all the orders for the most advanced iPhone..." via Bloomberg

Corning opens world's largest LCD substrate facility "...The factory has been opened to build the largest LCD substrates in the world, suitable for building 75" displays more economically than the smaller competition..." via bit-tech

The Information Display News Roundup For 9.25.2012

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Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future "The key to Gorilla Glass is that the compression layer keeps cracks from propagating through the material and catastrophically letting tension take over. Drop a phone once and the screen may not fracture, but you may cause enough damage (even a microscopic nick) to critically sap its subsequent strength. The next drop, even if it isn’t as severe, may be fatal. It’s one of the inevitable consequences of working with a material that is all about trade-offs, all about trying to create a perfectly imperceptible material." via Wired

HannStar reportedly enters iPad supply chain "The rumors claimed that since Apple has been decreasing its orders to Samsung Electronics for panels used in the iPad due to disputes between the two companies, the US vendor has begun shifting some of the orders to HannStar." via DigiTimes

Holographic storage may yet knock magnetic media off its perch "To store the data, a laser beam is split into two beams, a signal beam and a reference beam. The signal beam passes through a liquid crystal display, which shows a page of binary information, as clear and black boxes. The beam then travels into a light sensitive polymer or crystal substrate, carrying the information from the LCD." via Tech Radar

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CMI, AUO have low AMOLED yields, say sources "The sources indicated that CMI currently has 20% yields for its AMOLED technology, which uses white AMOLED with color filters. ...AUO uses traditional vacuum deposition technology for producing the panels and has had issues with bringing yields up beyond the 50% rate." via DigiTimes

Ultra High Definition Display Manufacturing in Asia Boosted by Three New Linde Plants "Improving electron mobility in transistors is crucial in bringing higher resolutions and higher frame rates to TVs, mobile and computing devices. The manufacture of UHD 3D displays is currently expensive, requiring the use polysilicon transistors, which cost twice as much as those using amorphous silicon." via Herald Online

3-D display screen tilts along multiple axes "Sriram Subramanian, a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in Bristol University's Department of Computer Science said that the ability to tilt along multiple axes distinguishes the display from previous devices. He believes that such displays could be used in a range of applications such as terrain modeling and gaming. " via Vision Systems Design

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Tobii and NTT DOCOMO Show Unique Eye-tracking Tablet "Developed in partnership with NTT DOCOMO’s manufacturing partner, Fujitsu, the ibeam prototype uses the most advanced and compact eye tracker in the world, theTobii IS20 (formerly Tobii IS-2), allowing an unsurpassed eye-tracking experience when using the device. The ibeam will also showcase the future possibilities of natural user interfaces for computers and tablets using gaze interaction. With this capability, users can also interact with the tablet hands-free while still retaining complete functionality of the device." via Display Central