The global market for e-paper displays will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 124 percent from 2008 through 2013, and will exceed US$2.5 billion ($3 billion) by the end of that period says analyst NexGen Research.
Consumers continue to buy technology products to improve their lives, although the consumer electronics (CE) industry will see overall shipment revenues decline in 2009, according to new data released by the US-based Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
URT (distributed in Australia by Glyn) introduces its new 7-in TFT LCD displays with LVDS interface and with 800 by RGB by 480 dots resolution, 262k colour depth and touch panel interface.
The organic LED (OLED) lighting market is setting the stage to take off in 2011, with OLED lighting revenues forecasted to surpass passive matrix OLED (PMOLED) displays in the 2013 to 2014 timeframe, reaching US$6 billion ($8.6 billion) by 2018, according to analysts DisplaySearch.
OLED displays have a number of advantages over LCDs. Alan Suyko explains
According to analysts Strategy Analytics consumers are interested in innovative devices such as a phone with a roll-up display and a flexible phone that can be bent into any shape.
Bürkert has released a complete range of digital displays with indicator, totaliser and counter functionality, as part of the eLINE range.
Tenrod Australia, official distributor for Macroblock has just released its LED Driver with Silent Error Detection and other features to enable smart driving of LEDs particularly when used outdoors in large arrays.
LCD is still the leader for handset displays. However, a number of new and not-so-new display technologies are vying for small slices of this market sector, says analysts ABI research.
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (distributed in Australia by Soanar) is launching two new MultiLEDs for different LED video displays.