Archive for August, 2008

Flexible Displays - Graduating to Plastic

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

By David Barnes, Vice President, Strategic Analysis Remember your first date? I took Silvia to see “The Graduate” staring a (then) young Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock character is taken aside by Mr. McGuire, a middle-aged man who offers career guidance to the college graduate. “I just want ...

LEDs Take Center Stage at the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

By David Hsieh, Vice President, Greater China Market, DisplaySearch The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opened at 8:08 pm on August 8, 2008. This time has special meaning because the number 8 symbolizes “fortune” in China. So much about the ceremony was wonderful: the very large scale of the ceremony, the splendid ...

Samsung Springs the Trap?

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

By Paul Gray, Director of European TV Research Last quarter I struggled to make sense of the TV chip makers' figures. Mediatek sales appeared to decline, and this didn't fit with their general trend of design wins and a rising Flat Panel TV market. It seemed as though either someone else ...