2023-08-25

Hisense's cheap Mini LED TVs look seriously tempting… and Samsung should be watching closely

Hisense has confirmed details of its 2023 line up, and its keen pricing of its flagship Mini LEDs made me look twice. Hisense has announced the details of its 2023 range, with affordable Mini LED TVs that rival Samsung's pricing. The range includes various premium technologies, such as entry-level 4K TVs with Quantum Dot tech, Laser TVs, and flagship Mini LEDs. The top-of-the-range U8K Mini LED TV starts at £1,299, undercutting Samsung's top model by £500, and the most affordable Mini LED TV is priced at just &poun...
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2023-08-25

Samsung Electronics Unveils World’s First Dual UHD Gaming Monitor, Odyssey Neo G9 57″

The world’s first Dual UHD monitor brings DisplayPort 2.1 for next-generation gaming performance Samsung is announcing the future of gaming monitors with the newest entries in its Odyssey monitor series: Odyssey Neo G9 57” and the 2023 Odyssey Ark 55”. The new gaming monitors are now on display at the world’s largest video game event, Gamescom 2023, and will be available for purchase in October. The Odyssey Neo G9 57” earned a Best of Innovation Award at CES 2023. “We’re continually pushing the boundaries of what ...
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2023-08-25

Samsung Display, MINI Showcase Automotive OLED at Gamescom 2023

MINI Incubator is featuring Samsung Display’s round OLED at Gamescom 2023 in this photo provided by the display maker. SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Display Co., the display arm of Samsung Electronics Co., on Thursday unveiled its new line of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) designed for automotive applications in collaboration with MINI, the popular small car brand that operates under the BMW Group. The development was showcased at Gamescom 2023 in Cologne, Germany, The event is scheduled to take place until Sun...
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2023-08-25

tvONE CORIOmaster2 Drives 2,000 Video Wall At Chicago’s New DraftKings Sportsbook

The tvONE CORIOmaster 2 ensures the LED screen can display up to 24 sporting events at one time, or focus on just one as an immersive experience. (© McCann Systems) Chicago, IL, USA – Sports fans are being treated to a massive 2,000 square foot video screen at the new DraftKings Sportsbook bar at Chicago’s Wrigley Field stadium, with game footage and betting information delivered by a tvONE CORIOmaster2 video processor and integrated by tvONE partner McCann Systems. The expansive LED feature wall wraps around the space and...
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2023-08-25

InfoComm 2023 Highlights: xR Virtual Production, Glasses-free 3D Technology, All-in-one Machines

On July 19, 2023, InfoComm China 2023, an international event of audiovisual integrated equipment and technologies held in Beijing, officially kicked off. The exhibition gathered 400 leading manufacturers in China and abroad. Among the participants were Leyard, Unilumin, Ledman, Absen, Qiangli Jucai, AOTO, Cedar, Liantronics, Hisense, BOE, TCL, Sony, QSTECH, LP Display, Kinglight, Novastar, and many other suppliers, showcasing the latest LED displays and applications. For example, Leyard unveiled a transparent Micro LED display, while AET...
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2023-08-24

Absen Unveils Groundbreaking Innovations: KLCOB V2 Series, Absenicon X, and Absenicon C Ultrawide

ORLANDO, Fla., August 23, 2023 – Absen Inc., a global leader in DvLED display solutions, is proud to announce the launch of three cutting-edge products that will revolutionize the visual experience in various applications. The KLCOB V2 Series, Absenicon C Ultrawide, and Absenicon X are poised to redefine clarity, performance, and versatility in the DvLED display industry. KLCOB V2 Series: Born for a Revolutionary Visual Experience               Elevate your visual experience with Absen’s KLCOB V2 Series. Desig...
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2023-08-24

Sony Semiconductor Solutions to Release Large-Size, High-Definition 1.3-type 4K*1 OLED Microdisplay That Reproduces Realistic Spaces Enhancing the Experiential Value of VR and AR Head-Mounted Displays

The press releases on this website are provided for historical reference purposes only. Please note that certain information may have changed since the date of release. Atsugi, Japan — Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS) today announced the upcoming release of the ECX344A, a large-size, high-definition 1.3-type OLED Microdisplay with 4K resolution*1 which will contribute to more realistic recreations of spaces. The new OLED Microdisplay is mainly intended for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display applicati...
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2023-08-24

Ready to camp: ams OSRAM Automotive celebrates its debut at the Caravan Salon in Düsseldorf

ams OSRAM Automotive is exhibiting for the first time at the Caravan Salon in Düsseldorf where it will be presenting its wide range of vehicle accessories for campervans and motorhomes From 26 August to 3 September 2023, visitors to the fair can try out and purchase current products from the camping range at stand A75 in Hall 13 ams OSRAM is making it easier to see and be seen on camping adventures with products such as its NIGHT BREAKER® LED family and the new LED inspection lights as well as improving safety with maintenance equipmen...
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2023-08-24

NASSAU CRUISE PORT UNVEILS LARGE-FORMAT LED SCREENS AMONG MAJOR RENOVATIONS

NASSAU, BAHAMAS—As part of a massive four-year revitalization project to upgrade and expand its port system, Nassau’s international cruise gateway Nassau Cruise Port (NCP) added two LED video displays to the highly trafficked port area. Now the second-busiest cruise port in the world, the enhanced NCP can accommodate up to six cruise vessels, including three of the world’s largest Oasis-class vessels simultaneously ― a daily capacity of 30,000 visitors. Both of the new large-format LED displays were built from SNA Displays&rsquo...
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2023-08-23

Wolfspeed to Sell RF Business to MACOM for $125 Million

Transaction will allow Wolfspeed to focus on U.S. capacity expansion to support silicon carbide power device and materials businesses DURHAM, N.C. August 22, 2023 -- Wolfspeed, Inc. (NYSE: WOLF) today announced that Wolfspeed has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its radio frequency business (Wolfspeed RF) to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTSI) for approximately $75 million in cash, subject to a customary purchase price adjustment, and 711,528 shares of MACOM common stock, valued at $50 million based on the 30 tr...
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2023-08-23

Martin Kuhn chooses Ayrton Cobra for Istanbul’s Maiden’s Tower Show

The focus of many legends and sagas, Istanbul’s Maiden’s Tower is the most iconic and important building for the city’s inhabitants, with a long history stretching back beyond 1423 when it first received its name. During its complete renovation, the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism commissioned contractors ASTEL to conduct an international competition for a light show that should highlight the Tower, be widely seen around Istanbul and run fully-automated every night. The contract was won by Martin Kuhn of MKLD Lighting Design & C...
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2023-08-23

Tata Tea adopts 3D anamorphic DOOH in India campaign

Tata Tea Premium, the flagship brand of Tata Tea, partnered with Laqshya Media Group to adopt 3D anamorphic displays in its "Desh Ke Dhaage" DOOH campaign, according to a press release. Desh Ke Dhaage (देश के धागे), Hindi for "country threads" according to Google Translate, is a campaign designed to celebrate Indian handlooms via digital content and special edition tea packs. The campaign ran through Aug. 17, centered at DLF Cyberhub in Gurugram, celebrating handloom traditions including Banarasi Silk from Uttar Pradesh,...
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2023-08-23

Brompton Technology powers state-of-the-art extended reality for Hong Kong’s Votion Studios

August 22, 2023. Votion Studios, a technology-driven creative agency in Hong Kong, incubated by Vobile Group in 2021, has launched a new, world-class virtual production studio that centres around an AOTO LED display powered by industry-leading LED video processing from Brompton Technology. As one of Hong Kong's foremost XR and VP studios, Votion combines a strategic fusion of cutting-edge technologies and collaborative alliances to provide content creators with a first-class solution that spans the entire production cycle. The studio’s expertise ex...
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2023-08-23

Award-Winning Rebate Program Helps Fluence Customers Save More Than $26 Million

AUSTIN, Texas (Aug. 22, 2023)—Fluence, a leading global provider of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions for commercial cannabis and food production, announced today its award-winning rebate program has helped growers secure more than $26 million in rebates and incentives since 2017. Fluence’s dedicated in-house rebate experts offer rebate and incentive management to all Fluence customers at no additional cost, including customers through the Fluence partner network. The team’s experience with utility companies across North America helps mitigate t...
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2023-08-22

ISELED ALLIANCE ADDS THREE NEW MEMBERS: AUTOCHIPS, ZHIXIN SEMICONDUCTOR AND HEBATRONIC

Munich, 21 August 2023 – We are pleased to announce that three more manufacturers of microcontrollers and Arduino-compatible LED driver and development boards have joined the industry alliance: AutoChips, Zhixin Semiconductor and Hebatronic. As a result, the open industry alliance now has more than fifty members, covering the entire automotive lighting value chain. “We are pleased that the ISELED Alliance network continues to grow with the addition of three new members,” says Robert Kraus, CEO of Inova Semiconductors and Chairman of the I...
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2023-08-22

TCL Wins Three Prestigious 2023-2024 EISA Awards, Including EISA Home Theatre Mini LED TV

Outstanding accolades solidify TCL's position at the forefront of innovative display technology. PARIS, Aug. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TCL, a world's top two TV brand and top one 98-inch TV brand, today announces exceptional honors obtained at the EISA Awards. Recognized as Europe's foremost authority on audio-visual innovation, the Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) has awarded TCL three distinguished awards, recognizing TCL's dedication to pushing the boundaries of display technology. For its breakthr...
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2023-08-22

Altos Radar raises $3.5m to accelerate the development and commercialization of 4D imaging radars

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Valley-based automotive radar startup, Altos Radar, has raised $3.5 million in seed round funding that will fast-track the commercialization of 4D imaging radars in driver-assisted and autonomous vehicles. The funding, led by Hesai Technology CEO David (Yifan) Li, ZhenFund and Monad Ventures, will be used to mass-produce and market Altos Radar's new high-performance 4D imaging RADAR Altos V1, which demonstrates revolutionary perception capabilities at a fraction of the cost of its competito...
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2023-08-22

Vishay Shrinks Down VCSEL-based Reflective Optical Sensor

Vishay's new optical sensor packs a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and a silicon phototransistor in a 1.85 mm x 1.2 mm x 0.6 mm package. Showing that big advancements can come in small packages, Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a new reflective optical sensor for a slew of applications. The new sensor builds on Vishay’s existing optoelectronics portfolio to offer designers a new option with critical performance and size improvements over previous generations. The VCNT2030 offers a performance boost over previous generations in a smaller de...
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2023-08-21

Acer Predator X32Q FS: New 4K gaming monitor debuts with 1,152 Mini LED local dimming zones and 1,200 nits peak brightness

Acer has started selling the Predator X32Q FS in China. Equipped with a 32-inch IPS panel, the Predator X32Q FS has a 4K resolution, a 150 Hz refresh rate and 1,152 Mini LED local dimming zones, among other features. The Predator X32Q FS builds on last year's Predator X32 FP. (Image source: Acer) Acer has started selling the Predator X32Q FS in China, a newer alternative to the Predator X32 FP that the company introduced last year during CES 2022. As its name suggests, the Predator X32Q FS has a 32-inch display, which remains an...
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2023-08-21

LG Unveils New ‘Magnit’ Micro LED Screen - Complete With Luxury Bang & Olufsen Speakers

While we’re used to finding ultra-expensive luxury speakers, amps and so on in the hi-fi world, the TV world is typically relatively mainstream with the range of options it offers. Or it was until Micro LED technology came along. These exciting new displays have been a dazzling but frankly both impractical and unaffordable staple of technology shows for years now - but recent evidence suggests that it’s finally trying to break out into the consumer marketplace. A few weeks back I reported on the launch of the C Seed N1: A mindblowing outdoor Micro LED displa...
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2023-08-18

Imec integrates thin-film pinned photodiode into superior short-wave-infrared imaging sensors

Results published in Nature Electronics unlock the potential of thin-film sensors in infrared imaging LEUVEN (Belgium), 14 August, 2023—Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents the successful integration of a pinned photodiode structure in thin-film image sensors. With the addition of a pinned-photogate and a transfer gate, the superior absorption qualities of thin-film imagers -beyond one µm wavelength- can finally be exploited, unlocking the potential of sensing light beyond the visible in a cost-effi...
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2023-08-18

Leyard’s 162” LED video wall saves costs for EPC provider

The 4K display, which was installed at Global E&C’s Challenge Centre by PCL Live, is saving the engineering, procurement and construction provider thousands of pounds in electricity costs. PCL Live has installed a 162” 4K LED Leyard Europe display at engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) provider Global E&C’s Challenge Centre. The AV company, which is based in north-east Scotland, opted to replace the existing LCD wall with an interactive, direct-view, all-in-one display with touchscreen functionality. The ...
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2023-08-18

Wolverhampton City Council Upgrades Urban Traffic Control Centre Video Wall

Wolverhampton City Council’s urban traffic control centre (UTC) has been fitted with the latest in video wall display and controller technology thanks to a collaboration involving SWARCO, Intech Solutions and Ultimate Visual Solutions (UVS). Based on their previous work for the city council, Intech Solutions were asked to provide a new video wall solution for the UTC, which needed to incorporate the latest technology and provide new functionality to allow multiple data sources, in addition to CCTV images, to be displayed alongside each other. Due...
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2023-08-18

Saphlux Unveils Revolutionary Full-Color NPQD® Micro-Display for AR/VR Headsets

SAN DIEGO--Saphlux today demonstrated an industry leading 0.39” full-color micro-LED display (T1-0.39 RGB) that will enable virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) manufacturers to create true outdoor-compatible brightness and high-resolution display systems with color rich image quality (Figure 1). Figure 1: Prototype T1-0.39 NPQD® RGB Light Engine “Light engines offering wide ranges of brightness, contrast, and color i.e., high dynamic range (HDR) within the power, thermal, and form-factor constraints is the biggest challen...
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2023-08-17

Apple Is Secretly Designing & Testing Its Owned Manufactured Screens

Apple is testing Micro LED displays near its California headquarters Apple is covertly working on a self-manufactured display for its devices at a small manufacturing unit near its California headquarter. This is the first time when iPhone maker is designing the screens, the company is producing a small number of displays for the testing purpose. According to the reports revealed by anonymous people, Apple is putting a lot of money on the development of Micro LED screens, the tech giant working hard to come up with the next generations screens. The project was kicked...
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2023-08-17

Apple Will Make All Carmakers Drool Over MicroLED Displays

The debut of Apple's first car later this decade is expected to be a turning point in the automotive industry, as the technology company would turn from friend to foe for traditional carmakers. Its technology could fuel a new revolution in the auto world, as carmakers will likely follow in its footsteps and adopt similar ideas in their future models. One could be microLED technology, with new research published by TrendForce suggesting that displays based on this concept would become widely adopted in the automotive industry in the second half of the decade. Apple...
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2023-08-17

Signify opens new factory for light sources and luminaires in China, its biggest in the world

Eindhoven, the Netherlands – Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced the opening of its biggest LED lighting manufacturing site in the world in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China. The new factory of Signify's joint venture company Zhejiang Klite Lighting Holdings Co., Ltd (“Klite”) will manufacture high-quality branded LED lighting products, including for the Philips brand, for China and the global market. Fully operational by the end of this year with 192 production lines, the 200,000-square meter facili...
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2023-08-16

Google AR Glasses with Micro LED Still A Possibility

Recent developments surrounding Google's next-gen AR wearable device have been one thrilling roller coaster ride. It was reported that Google canceled its plans to launch a pair of smart glasses under Project Iris. However, a new job listing suggested the company may still have interest in developing its augmented reality glasses, which will even come equipped with an advanced micro-LED panel. At the end of June, Business Insider cited insider sources that Google performed a significant restructuring of its AR roadmap, which involved abandoning the successor to G...
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2023-08-16

Philips Ultinon Drive 5100 series gain new powerful LED lights: High-performant UD5101R driving light and UD5104L light bar

Suresnes, France – August 1st, 2023 – The latest innovative additions to the Philips Ultinon Drive 5100 series of LED auxiliary lights are designed to bring more intense and broader illumination for great visibility. These new lamps combine powerful brightness with a rugged design and are 100% road-legal in Europe. Precision engineered by leading automotive lighting supplier Lumileds, the Philips Ultinon Drive 5100 series provides enhanced brightness for cars and trucks on and off-road. Philips UD5101R: drivers can spot hazards up to 552 meters away! T...
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2023-08-16

Absen and Yealink Join Forces to Offer Enhanced Video Conferencing Solutions

Absen, the global leading LED display solutions and service provider with 22 years professional experience, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Yealink, a provider of unified communication and collaboration solutions specializing in video conferencing, voice communications, and collaboration. Absen and Yealink are collaborating on conference equipment. Absen and Yealink will jointly develop solution in conference scenario globally. This joint solution combines Yealink's leading Microsoft Teams Room solution with Absen's professional LED smart screen develo...
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interested... READ MORE