Just a quick note: The A5515K mobile phone has a 2.2″ 240 x 320 TFT LCD that uses Sharp’s Mobile ASV panel. ASV stands for Advanced Super View and is Sharp’s proprietarily developed vertical alignment (VA) technology and offers wide viewing angles. Another cool feature of this phone is the use of nVidia’s GoForce (that’s [...]
This is bad news. Samsung has informed LCD TV panel customers that it will raise 32″ LCD TV panel prices by $10. According to today’s Witsview panel prices, 32″ average panel prices are $365. DigiTimes also mentioned that other suppliers such as AU Optronics (AUO), Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) and Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) [...]
LG Electronics (LGE) stated on September 10, 2006 that it will begin producing LCD TVs at its new production plant in Wroclaw, Poland starting this month. The original launch date was planned for the first half of 2007 but LGE has moved it up to meet the demand for LCD TVs in Europe. LGE currently [...]
AU Optronics (AUO) has started to ship 32″ LCD TV panels to Sony this month. There are two models that AUO ships to Sony. One is a lesser model that has 16 CCFLs and is shipped also to Samsung. The other is a higher-quality model that uses 12 CCFLs and prism films. AUO’s monthly shipments [...]
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) is Cambridge, UK-based pioneer of polymer light emitting diode (P-OLED) technology. CDT has begun work on metal deposition that will be a critical piece in bringing flexible displays to the market. This project involves devloping a process to deposit metal tracks that are conductive and very thin onto glass and plastic [...]
Liquavista is a display company based in Eindhoven and developed a HEOS display technology that simplifies the manufacturing process of displays. Liquavista is a spinoff from Philips Research Labs and was founded in 2006. Back in June, 2006, Liquavista unveiled the world’s brightest reflective displays during SID 2006. The “ColorMatch” product platform is based on [...]
Philips will spend about US$80 million in constructing a Lumileds LED production plant in Singapore that will employ 1000 workers. Philips’ CEO Gerard Kleisterlee stated that it would be a high-luminance, high-power LED production facility for LCD displays, automotive backlighting and city beautification. The article in LEDs Magazine states that the new plant will be [...]
Weird. “I thoud I thaw a 14″ flethible dithplay at Eth I D…” I did! I did! And I think it was LG.Philips LCD (LPL). The 14″ flexible display used metal plates to make it flexible. Now, maybe Samsung is saying that when it is commercially available that the 7″ would be the world’s largest [...]
SVA-NEC invested US$400 million to increase its production capacity by 88%, potentially doubling annual revenues. SVA-NEC’s capacity will be 12.15 million 15″-equivalent panels on an annual basis, making it the largest producer of TFT LCDs in China, surpassing its rival BOE. The increase in capacity is in preparation to meet the strong increase in LCD [...]
BenQ’s new FP222W is the fifth in its wide LCD monitor lineup that consists of 17″, 19″, 20″ and 24″ sizes. The FP222W should be available as the press release stated it would be in early September. The FP222W features 1680 x 1050 (WSXGA+) resolution with a contrast ratio of 700:1, brightness of 300 cd/m2, [...]