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1, pass Sharp mass production of OLED panels in the spring, for the iPhone to prepare?
According to Nikkei News, Sharp (Sharp) will begin commercial production of OLED panel products for smartphones in the spring of 2018, and some high-end smartphones Sharp expects to open this summer will be adopted and later planned to expand To cars and other smart phones other than the use, but also plans to supply to other companies.
Sharp has dropped tens of billions of yen to set up small-scale OLED panel production lines at its facilities and elsewhere, and the current production-related technologies are in place and shipping of samples has started. After that, it is estimated that from April to June 2018 Began mass production.Sharp will focus on brightness, quality and other parts of the fine-tuning in order to allow the production of OLED panel products to achieve the required level of commercialization.
At this point, Sharp will grab the Japanese factory first incense, the first to take the lead in Japan Display Inc (JDI) Group, becoming the first Japanese manufacturer of mass-produced OLED panels. JDI Group plans to mass-production OLED panel in 2019. Korean manufacturers on the lead OLED Panel business, Sharp president Dai Zhengwu pointed out that the Japanese alliance should be created, and plans to hold discussions with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Industrial Innovation Agency (INCJ).
Regarding the possibility of making a contribution to JOLED, a Japanese OLED panel developer, Dai Zhengwu said he hopes to first probe Japan's policy intentions and decide after listening to the Japanese government's intention to develop the OLED panel industry.
In addition, BOE's plant in Sichuan province has been opened and JDI Group JOLED is accelerating its efforts to establish a low-cost OLED panel production technology using 'printing' technology. LG Display (LGD) has also announced that the OLED panel for smartphones Investment plan.
2, TCL TV North American market share expanded to 10%: that the domestic market has no room for growth;
US time January 8, held in Las Vegas, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on the eve of the domestic appliances brand TCL held a new conference in North America, released in North America, 6 Series, 5 Series TV and Roku Series of audio products.
Wang Cheng said TCL Group's investment in panel resources to provide consumers with high-quality picture quality, the introduction of high-quality TV in the North American market.
TCL color TV in the North American market achieved good results in 2017. TCL North American branch general manager Mao Chuwen interview with surging news reporters said that TCL TV in the North American market share of 10% or so, third only Second behind Vizio, Samsung and the U.S. domestic brand, and was second only to Vizio.
TCL Multimedia (1070.HK) disclosed the caliber of North American market in 2017 cumulative sales soared 131.5% year on year, to achieve doubled growth.
Mao Chu Wen said that now TCL TV has entered the mainstream American sales channels, Costco, Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, etc., and online with Amazon for a strategic cooperation.
'The main reasons for the North American market's achievements are several factors, one is the adjustment of our product structure, the introduction of high-quality television sets, $ 599 TV sets sold better than the $ 399 TV; In addition, TCL Pay great attention to the user service, listen to the user's opinion, online shopping users have any dissatisfaction, we will call for a return visit, until the user to help solve the problem.
Wang Cheng said that the success this year is also the result of TCL's long-term operation in North America for so many years, and it is not accomplished in a single step.
In order to open the market in the United States, TCL sponsored the Hollywood famous architecture 'Chinese Theater', also sponsored the NBA team Minnesota Timberwolves, with the United States talk show 'Allen Talk Show' to cooperate in sports and entertainment marketing increase in the United States Reputation.
Wang Cheng said that with the exception of the North American market, the Southeast Asian market and the African market are opportunities for Chinese brands. "Waves go up the steps and the country's Belt and Road initiative will sell more products to foreign countries in the future."
Wu Ji Yu, general manager of TCL overseas business center said that the next three years is the golden age of TCL growth, TCL TV will continue to have a good result in a number of overseas markets, 'We are also good performance in Germany, we have just entered the Japanese market.' 'The domestic market has been There is no room for growth, only internationalization.
According to the information disclosed by TCL, the sales volume of LCD TV products in 2017 was 23,774,000 units, up 15.9% over the same period of last year; the sales volume of intelligent network TV was 15,127,000 units, up 34.8% from the same period of last year, of which, the sales volume of color TV in the fourth quarter of 2017 reached 7.298 million Taiwan, an increase of 30.4%; sales of 488,700 units of intelligent network television, an increase of 52.4%, showing the proportion of sales of high-end products to be further optimized.
It is noteworthy that, TCL TV sales in 2017 nearly 24 million units, with the South Korean first-tier manufacturers to further narrow sales gap; benefit from many years of deep plowing in overseas markets, TCL Multimedia in many overseas regions have obvious competitive advantages, North America Market and sales growth in Brazil and other emerging markets continued to grow.
Before TCL multimedia rights issue about 265 million US dollars and plans to change its name to TCL Electronics outsiders believe that this move is TCL TCL to create an international consumer electronics terminal industry group, the business areas may be further expanded.
Wang Cheng said that the renamed TCL Electronics Group may have more business synergies, some new businesses will get TCL multimedia to. Surging News
3, OLED and LCD fierce battle while, manufacturers seize large-size TV high ground;
In the battle of OLED and LCD is in full swing, Hisense and Samsung will focus on the other side, 2018CES were the first time showing the 150-inch laser TV and 146-inch Micro LED TV, to occupy the commanding height of large-size TV.
American local time on January 8, Liu Hongxin, president of Hisense Group, said at Hisense CES conference that 'getting bigger and bigger' has become the industry consensus of CES this year, so Hisense Hisense breath at 80 inches, 88 inches, 100-inch, 150-inch laser TV. In March 2018, Hisense will also be the world's largest 300-inch laser theater in Shanghai, China. Liu Hongxin believes the US laser TV market will also be developed. 'The next three years, laser TV will be The category with the highest growth in TV products. '
For the past four years, Hisense continued to invest in laser TVs, hoping to develop the next-generation television technology with Chinese discourse outside of its LG-led OLED TVs, which will develop laser TVs from 100-inch 4K to 150-inch 4K. At present, Hisense has accounted for 60% of China's 85-inch and above ultra-large-size TV market.
Today, 55-inch and above size products have become the mainstream of TV consumption, sales in China this size segment accounted for nearly 70% IHS Markit expected weakness in the overall television market, more than 75 inches large screen, ultra HDTV will grow rapidly.
For the first time in 2018CES, the 'The Wall', a 146-inch Micro LED TV, is aiming at ultra-large-size market potential. It is a micron-level LED self-luminous TV that enhances luminous efficiency, light source lifetime and power consumption. , It can be connected with other devices to form a larger screen, and adding a screen does not affect the image quality.
Another color giants Sony for the future of several technical directions have 'occupied.' At 2018 CES, Sony continues to push 4K OLED TV, while showing the 120-inch 4K ultra-short focus projector (ie, laser TV) .
Zhang Bing, chief research officer of IHS China, told CBI that Hisense 150-inch laser TVs are already commercial products. However, laser TVs are essentially projection and need to overcome the ambient light, so they are still mainly commercial and professional segments (such as home theater ) Of the market.Microsoft's Micro LED TV to achieve commercialization, but also takes a long time, now can be seen as works of art.
In contrast, Zhang Bing believes that 2018CES's TV hot spot is AI (Artificial Intelligence), behind the main platform is Google, Amazon competition, of course, Samsung's Tizen (Tizen) system, the future competition is still uncertain. Another hot spot is the OLED, LG introduced 65-inch can be rolled OLED TV, Sony also continue to push the OLED. In addition, 8K display is also a hot spot, Sony's 8K LCD TV is very stunning, all major color TV show will also show 8K TV.
Another LED research institute said that the cost of Micro LED TV is still much higher than the traditional LCD or OLED TV.The current challenges include how to do the LED micron level, and how to micron-level LED transfer to the backplane to do the pixel, which are testing the manufacturer's technology and production capacity.
Due to the price competition of mainstream 55-65 inch LCD TVs at this stage, the cost of LCD and OLED TVs can be reduced to the acceptable level for consumers, and the cost and price of Micro LED TVs in the short term are hard to compete in this field. In the market of more than 100 inches, because of the sharp increase of LCD and OLED panel production costs, it gives Micro LED TV a chance to cut in. When the future Micro LED technology and manufacturing process mature, there will be the opportunity to cut into the mainstream size. Finance
4, 2017 Panel Year, AUO hit a year-on-year revenue increase over the previous year;
Taiwan panel doubles AUO and group startup each announced their results for December 2017. Although the panel prices of AUO and Comstock hit a slight decline in December in the face of the recent panel price slack, In both cases, both companies paid more transcripts of their growth in 2016 as market prices rose more than in 2016 and demand was also higher than before.
In terms of shipments, AUO's overall large-size panel shipments in December, including more than 9.42 million such as LCD TVs, desktop monitors and notebook computers, were 6% lower than in November. The shipment volume came to 16.25 million units, an increase of 6.2% from November. The cumulative volume of large-size units in Q4 2017 was around 28.65 million units, down 1.5% from the third quarter and up 1.2% from the same period of 2016.
For small and medium size shipments, small and medium size shipments in the fourth quarter of 2017 exceeded 46.66 million units, up 0.3% from the third quarter and up 31.4% over the same period in 2016. In total, large-size shipments for 2017 Compared with 118.1 million in volume, up 1.2% from 2016. In 2017, the volume of small and medium-size shipments was around 166.85 million units, up 9.7% over 2016.
As for the group creation part, Genesis said its consolidated revenue in December 2017 was NT 27 billion, down 1.1% from its revenue in November 2017 and a decrease of 15.9% from the same period in 2016. Total, 2017 Q4 consolidated revenue was NTD 79.1 billion, a decrease of 11.5% from the same period in 2016, representing a decrease of 0.5% as compared with NT 795 million in revenue consolidated in Q3 2017. In total, for the full year of 2017 Revenue was NT $ 322.2 billion, an increase of 14.7% from the 2016 full year revenue of NT $ 287.1 billion.
As for the volume of shipments, a total of 10.58 million units were shipped in the first quarter of this year, down 0.2% from November 2017. Consolidated shipments of small and medium size totaled 25.89 million units, compared with 2017 In the fourth quarter of 2017, a total of 30.52 million pieces of large-size combined shipments increased by 2.8% as compared with 29.96 million pieces in the third quarter of 2017. Total small and medium-sized combined shipments were Reaching 73.7 million units, a decrease of 3.1% from the 76.06 million units shipped in Q3 of 2017.
Taken together, a total of 116.19 million consolidated and large-size combined shipments were generated in FY17, representing an increase of 5% as compared to the 106.69 million units shipped in the full year of 2016. As for small and medium size panels, 2017 Total annual combined shipments totaled 207.78 million units, an increase of 20.4% from the 242.88 million units shipped in the full year of 2016. TechNews
5, Sony introduced in CES including 4K OLED TV, including a variety of new products but also to do in-depth AI;
Phoenix, January 9 (Reuters) - Sony Corp. unveiled a series of new products at CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada, including 4K OLED TVs and LCD TVs, noise-canceling headphones, Mobile phones and entertainment robots based on artificial intelligence technology.
At the conference, Sony Corporation President and CEO Hirai Fu said: 'In the field of consumer electronics, I firmly believe that Sony is still promising in innovation, to bring users meaningful and creative entertainment experience.'
The newly released A8F Series 4K OLED BRAVIA TV with 4K HDR image processing chip X1 Advanced (X1Extreme), and Sony's unique Acoustic Surface technology for screen-sounding direct output of sound through the display. The A8F series offers users a 65-inch 55-inch two-size, with a new design can minimize the footprint.
In addition to OLED TV, Sony also released a variety of LCD TVs. BRAVIA X900F Series 4K LCD TV equipped with X1 advanced image processing chip, through the X-Motion Clarity technology to control the movement of the image to minimize blurred images. , The X9000F supports the Dolby Atmos compatible Sony home audio system HT-X9000F. The X9000F series TV with this screen size covers five sizes ranging from 85 inches, 75 inches, 65 inches, 55 inches to 49 inches, To meet the entertainment needs of different family living room.
In addition, Sony also updated more 4K HDR product line, these products are equipped with Sony 4K HDR image processing chip X1 (X85F series only), 4K fast sharp image processing engine Pro and many other Sony technology, new products are expected to be 2018 For sale.
At this year's CES Sony also exhibited a new generation of image processing chip X1 flagship prototype, as well as a flagship chip equipped with X1 X1 8K display. The former image real-time processing capabilities reach the current X1 advanced version of the 2 times, TV products to a new level of image quality; the latter peak brightness up to HDR mode up to 10,000 nits, covering almost the brightness range of human visual.
Sound Bar HT-Z9F and HT-X9000F are two Sound Bar products Sony introduced at CES, both of which support Dolby panoramic sound and the latest audio format DTS: X. After using Sony's vertical surround engine technology , Two front speakers sound stereo system can independently create the sound field. HT-Z9F is the world's first Dolby Atmos support 3.1ch channel Sound Bar.
Wireless Noise Canceling Stereo Earphones WF-SP700N is Sony's newest wireless headset that combines noise reduction and waterproofing, eliminating the need to worry about noise, sweat or rain in the noise reduction mode. The ambient sound mode also allows the user to edge-train Listening to music, listening to the external sound.In addition, the neck-mounted wireless headset WI-SP600N is also a new product launched around sports enthusiasts.This release also added voice adaption capabilities of electronic products.Sony plans last year's release 1000X series of wireless noise reduction headphones and new WF-SP700N and WI-SP600N joined Google Voice Assistant.
In the mobile phone products, Sony introduced two new smartphones Xperia XA2 and Xperia XA2 Ultra which, Xperia XA2 with 5.2-inch full HD display, 3300mAh capacity battery; Xperia XA2 Ultra with 6.0-inch full HD display, 3580mAh capacity battery.
Both phones feature a Snapdragon 630 series processor with fingerprint sensor unlocked on the back, while they also feature an anodized aluminum sideframe with a seamless, bezelless, full-screen front design. Both new handsets will be available worldwide by the end of January 2018.
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