Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

The Next Real Estate Crisis

Friday, April 4th, 2008

by David Barnes, Vice President, Strategic Analysis OK, I know you were expecting me to blog on “Helicopter Ben Plays Whack-A-Thon.” I almost did. Lucky for you, I discovered a more interesting topic with an equally catchy title. At our US FPD Conference, I was impressed by a keynote from Dr. Chung ...

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 ...

The Influence of Sony’s Investment in Sharp’s LCD TV Panel Factory

Monday, March 10th, 2008

by David Hsieh, Vice President, Greater China Market At the end of February, Sony and Sharp announced that they will form a joint venture to build a Gen 10 TFT LCD fab, targeting large size LCD TV panels of 40” and above. Sony and Sharp will invest ¥100 billion and ¥380 ...

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, ...

Converter Boxes: Are You Ready?

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

By Paul Gagnon, Director of North America TV Market Research The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the government entity tasked with administrating the DTV converter box coupon program, just announced that they will begin mailing coupons good for $40 off a Digital TV converter box to consumers who have requested ...