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Smartphone and tablets still drive demand for cover glass, as industry looks to smart watches for growth

07/17/2015  With screen sizes increasing, smartphones continue to lead total area demand in the cover glass market; however, as the markets for smartphones and tablets mature, cover glass industry revenue growth is declining from 39 percent year over year in 2013 to 11 percent in 2015.

Smartphone sales remain an important IC market driver in 2015

07/02/2015  Smartphones forecast to represent 80% of total cellphone shipments in 4Q15.

Graphene flexes its electronic muscles

07/01/2015  Flexing graphene may be the most basic way to control its electrical properties, according to calculations by theoretical physicists at Rice University and in Russia.

Optimized printing process enables custom organic electronics

06/16/2015  They are thin, light-weight, flexible and can be produced cost- and energy-efficiently: printed microelectronic components made of synthetics. Flexible displays and touch screens, glowing films, RFID tags and solar cells represent a future market.

Flat panel display equipment spending forecast to reach $9B in 2015

06/02/2015  Revenues for flat panel display (FPD) manufacturing equipment are expected to grow for the third consecutive year to reach $9.1 billion.

Tablet shipments lose momentum; Total PC unit forecast downgraded

05/29/2015  IC Insights has downgraded its forecast for the overall personal computing market, including much lower growth in tablets and continued weakness in standard PCs.

C3nano seals acquisition of Asia's largest manufacturer of silver nanowire, Aiden Co. Ltd. Korea

04/28/2015  C3nano, Inc. announced today that it has acquired the major supplier of silver nanowire (AgNW) in Asia, Aiden Co. Ltd. of Korea.

Canatu launches high transmittance CNB transparent conductive film for touch sensors

04/27/2015  Canatu, a manufacturer of next generation transparent conductive films and touch sensors, announces a new generation of high optical transmittance CNB (Carbon NanoBud) transparent conductive films at Printed Electronics Europe.

Global 4K display market to reach $52B in 2020

04/20/2015  Once a feature mainly found in next-gen TVs, 4K resolution displays now being adopted in smartphones, PC monitors, OLED displays and notebook PCs.

Automotive touch panel revenues to hit $1.5B by 2018

04/10/2015  The explosion of touch-enabled screens used in smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices, along with improvements in touch technology, are increasing demand for touch-screen automotive displays.

C3Nano Inc. and Kimoto Ltd. Japan partner in a strategic alliance

04/02/2015  C3Nano, Inc., a developer and supplier of solution-based, transparent conductive inks and films announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Kimoto, Ltd. Japan.

Cypress and Spansion complete $5 Billion merger

03/13/2015  Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Spansion, Inc. announced that they have closed the merger of the two companies in an all-stock, tax-free transaction valued at approximately $5 billion.

Cypress debuts reliable, secure fingerprint sensing solution for mobile devices

03/02/2015  The flexible solution enables designers to create custom home buttons with specialized shapes and sizes or to integrate the sensor into any mobile device’s industrial design or home button.

Smartphone display manufacturers facing pressure to further reduce prices in 2015

02/20/2015  Even as smartphone panel resolution continues to rise, and as display sizes continue to grow, panel manufacturers are facing pressure to reduce prices.

Sapphire industry: What we could expect after Apple’s withdrawal last September

02/05/2015  The announcement by GTAT and Apple in late 2013 of a more than $1 billion combined investment to set up the largest sapphire crystal growth facility in the world had raised hopes that adoption of sapphire in smartphones would rapidly reach a massive scale, with Apple setting up the pace and forcing its competitor to follow suit.

Silver nanowires demonstrate unexpected self-healing mechanism

01/23/2015  With its high electrical conductivity and optical transparency, indium tin oxide is one of the most widely used materials for touchscreens, plasma displays, and flexible electronics. But its rapidly escalating price has forced the electronics industry to search for other alternatives.

SmartKem announces new TFT fabrication facility to meet market demand for flexible semiconductors

11/20/2014  SmartKem, a supplier of high performance semiconductor materials for the manufacture of truly flexible displays and electronics, has announced the opening of a new thin-film-transistor (TFT) fabrication and testing facility at the company’s Manchester site – doubling the size of the company.

Canatu launches CNB in-mold film for transparent touch on 3D Surfaces

11/19/2014  Canatu today launched CNB In-Mold Film, a stretchable, formable, conductive film optimized for 3D formed capacitive touch displays and touch surfaces in automobile center consoles and dashboards, home appliance control panels, remote controls, smartwatches and portable electronic devices.

Better bomb-sniffing technology

11/04/2014  University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of carbon nanotube material for handheld sensors that will be quicker and better at sniffing out explosives, deadly gases and illegal drugs.

Printing in the hobby room: Paper-thin and touch-sensitive displays on various materials

10/13/2014  What if you could integrate paper-thin displays into the cards, which could be printed at home and which would be able to depict self-created symbols or even react to touch? Those only some of the options computer scientists in Saarbrücken can offer.




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