DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY NEWS ROUNDUP 10.04.19
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Global large-size LCD panel production to undergo major shift in 2020-2024, says Digitimes Research "The relentless capacity expansions by China's panel makers will not only result in massive losses at most other panel players in the region, but also prompt particularly Korea's makers to realign their production lines..." via DigiTimes
LG Display reduces LCD business units, manpower "LG Display has carried out a reshuffle, reducing the number of its executives and business units by about 25 percent, in its ongoing efforts to improve deteriorating performance" via Korea Times
Samsung’s Massive 292-Inch MicroLED TV Wall Now Shipping "Now the Korean manufacturer has announced it’s put the Wall family of displays into production (actual model number: IW008R), at different sizes and resolutions." via ExtremeTech
MicroLED tech combines native blue and green epitaxy on single wafer "Plessey, an embedded technologies developer at the forefront of microLED technology for augmented and mixed reality displays has extended the capability of its proprietary GaN-on-silicon process to enable native blue and native green emission from the same wafer." via Optics.org
Microsoft is right, two screens are far better than a folding OLED display "But, right now, the technology seems fragile and ill-suited for the masses. Even the updated Samsung Galaxy Fold doesn't seem like it will survive heavy-handed usage and the instruction manual is full of warnings about handling the device gingerly." via ZDNet