Taiwan-based panel maker, AU Optronics (AUO) announced it would form a strategic alliance with Japan's Idemitsu Kosan to develop next-generation OLED flat screen technology. The company said the strategic alliance includes technological collaboration to develop high-performance OLED displays and OLED-related patents. Based on the strategic alliance, Idemitsu will supply high-performance OLED materials to AUO, including device structure proposal. AUO will reinforce the development of OLED products using OLED materials supplied by Idemitsu. Stated by AUO, "This will accelerate business growth in AUO's small-sized OLED displays for smartphone an...more
BOC (Holdings) Ltd has released the newest report: BD player Current and Future Trend Analysis. In the report, it has described the BD player and related hardware market trend, which the market is estimated to reach 10 million units in 2009 and to 80 million by 2015. Blu-ray format has dominated the market in early 2008 after defeated the HD DVD format. However, due to the sudden economic downturn, the Blu-ray format related products were temporarily unable to move upward and even not able to expand its market shares. In addition, as more people are willing to use network contents distribution and faster as well as better developed ITPV, VOD, and etc., will Blu-ray player and related hardware keep increasing its market share? Yet, even more, with the join the China makers, will BD player repeat the same history of DVD player? In the report, BOC has analyzed the BD player and related hardware in different situation and possible future trends.