Archive for the ‘Barry Young’ Category

A Call to Paul*

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

by Barry Young, Senior Advisor and Consultant Intel introduced the 2W+ Atom, its latest low cost, low power microprocessor, which is yet another attempt to expand their market by creating a product family, falling between the Smart Phone and the notebook. This “middy” device which in previous incarnations has failed miserably ...

Apple’s Foray Into AMOLEDs: “Not Yet”

Monday, March 31st, 2008

by Barry Young, Senior Advisor and Consultant Gartner and Gizmodo took opposites sides of the same story about the Apple iPhone and AMOLED displays and they both got it wrong. How could this be, from two widely quoted and respected organizations? Ken Dulaney of Gartner reportedly said the second generation iPhone with ...

Toshiba, Sharp Hitachi, Canon, Matsushita Samsung and Samsung SDI Deliver OLED News

Monday, January 7th, 2008

by Barry Young, Senior Advisor and Consultant The month of December was filled with groundbreaking and confusing news, which is an indicator of just how significant OLEDs are becoming: Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita announced a new alliance to work on OLEDs. Toshiba announced that it cannot produce a 30” AMOLED TV by 2009, ...

Sumitomo Doubles Down and Purchases CDT while OSRAM Folds

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

By Barry Young, Senior Vice President In the period of less than one week, two very successful and well-capitalized high tech companies took a look at the same business opportunity—polymer based OLEDs (P-OLED)—and executed the exact opposite strategy. Sumitomo, presumably closer to the technology, saw the potential to be a ...

The iPhone is the Next RAZR!

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

By Barry Young, Senior Vice President of DisplaySearch Apple announced the iPhone in January at the same time that the CES Show was in full swing, and you would have thought the world stood still. The wireless community was overwhelmed with this new device that was a phone, an iPod ...