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Samsung Super-Wide Digital Signage LCDs

March 1, 2010

Samsung has begun mass production of its Super-Wide LCD for digital signage applications: a 43-inch with a 4:1 aspect ratio with a pixel format of 1920×480. As you can see from the picture above, it works quite well.

AU Optronics: 80% Monitor Panels with LED Backlight in 2012

February 26, 2010

AU Optronics (AUO) is aggressively shifting to LED as a light source for LCD backlights for LCD monitors, LCD TVs and notebook PCs. AUO president and CEO LJ Chen stated 80% of LCD monitor panels will feature LED backlights in 2012, growing significantly from an expected 30% in 2010. The global average is forecasted to be [...]

Panasonic Plasma TV Black Level Problem

February 4, 2010

Panasonic plasma TVs are known for their black levels. After gobbling up Pioneer the company has been incorporating Pioneer’s KURO technology to enhance black levels for its plasma offerings. And that’s one of the most important reasons why people buy Panasonic plasma TVs. But there is a problem: some users of Panasonic plasma TVs have [...]

Samsung Mobile Display Touch-Embedded 3.3-inch AMOLED

February 1, 2010

Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) is working on a new touch-enabled AMOLED panel. Instead of the usual addition of a touch layer on top of the display that leads to extra thickness, SMD’s on-cell touch technology involves depositing 0.001-mm-thick capacitive touch sensors between the display’s substrate and bottom polarizer film. The first fruits will be a [...]

Nexus One PenTile Matrix OLED Display

January 20, 2010

Miahi Preda at Mihai Mobile wrote an interesting piece titled, “Nexus One display and subpixel pattern“. What is so interesting? It highlights the sub-pixel format of the OLED display used in the Nexus One. The sub-pixel format is called PenTile Matrix and is manufactured by Samsung using the technology from Clairvoyante, a company that Samsung [...]

LG Display 19-inch Flexible e-Paper

January 15, 2010

LARGEST: LG Display announced a newspaper-sized e-paper. The 19-inch e-paper is 250 x 400mm in size and is about the size of an A3-sized newspaper and just as thin and light at 0.3mm and 130g. LG Display uses a metal foil instead of a typical glass substrate allowing the company’s e-paper to be flexible with [...]

Giantplus Technology: Capacitive Touch Panel Production Investment

December 31, 2009

Giantplus Technology, a small/medium LCD manufacturer based in Taiwan, announced that it will invest US$25M to establish a capacitive touch panel production line in Kunshan, China. Initial capacity is expected to be 1M units per month and increase to an eventual 2-3M. Sample production will commence in Q1′10 with volume production slated for Q2 or [...]

LG Display Invests in Hydis

December 28, 2009

LG Display (LGD) will be investing in Hydis, a Prime View International (PVI) subsidiary, by purchasing US$18.3M in zero coupon bonds and $12.2M in bonds with a 4% coupon rate. LGD and Hydis will also share certain patents via a cross-licensing agreement. Source: DIGITIMES

Global Mixed-mode Technology and AU Optronics Form LED Driver IC Joint Venture

December 25, 2009

Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) and AU Optronics (AUO) have formed a joint venture to develop LED and analog driver ICs. Raydium Semiconductor’s analog IC production assets maybe transfered to the new joint venture. AUO will invest NT$20M while GMT will put in NT$10M. GMT’s competitors including Advanced Analog Technology (AAT) and Richtek Technology will likely [...]

Panasonic 50-inch 3D Plasma TV in 2010

December 24, 2009

Panasonic will begin manufacturing 120,000 plasma display panels (PDPs) per month at its new Amagasaki plant next month. With an additional US$2.3 billion investment the company plans to increase capacity to 1 million PDPs per month. Panasonic plans to be the very first Japanese consumer electronics company to have a 3D TV commercially available in [...]


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