EL SEGUNDO, USA: After years of development, the market for active matrix organic light-emitting diodes (AMOLEDs) is moving into higher volumes, with shipments of the advanced screens to smartphones rising to a level where they can drive the growth of the entire small- and medium-sized display (SMD) market in February.
Total shipments of SMD panels used in products including mobile handsets, tablets and digital still cameras reached 186.8 million units in February, up 9 percent from 171.3 million units in January, according to an IHS iSuppli Small & Medium Displays PriceTrak report. The increase brought to an end four straight months of shipment declines that started in October 2011. IHS defines SMDs as displays sized smaller than 10 inches diagonally.
A rise in demand for AMOLED displays, coupled with increased orders from Chinese vendors, helped prevent what could have been a decline in shipments for the overall SMD market during a traditionally slow month for the market. AMOLED displays, lighter in weight and featuring more saturated colors compared to traditional LCD panels, have been gaining popularity in smartphones, with companies like Samsung Electronics, Nokia Corp. and HTC Corp. all selling mobile handsets that feature AMOLED displays.
Worldwide shipments of AMOLED mobile handset displays are expected to increase sequentially by 14 percent in the first quarter of this year and by 80 percent compared to the same time a year ago. The displays are set to gain further traction in the SMD space this year as the panels are adopted by other applications, like tablet PCs.
“Long considered a nascent technology, AMOLED is coming of age in 2012, with strong demand for the display from Android-based smartphones helping to drive the growth of the overall LCD-dominated SMD market,” said Vinita Jakhanwal, director for small & medium displays at IHS. “Display manufacturers are increasing their AMOLED manufacturing, making the new technology more available and allowing it to proliferate across a range of smartphone models from various brands.”
Samsung leads the AMOLED race
Samsung Mobile Display Co. currently drives the AMOLED market, because it has the largest manufacturing capacity.
The company’s main competitor is LG Display Co., although LG Display recently redirected its AMOLED focus away from mobile handsets toward the TV market. Meanwhile, Taiwanese and Chinese suppliers are working to improve their competitive positioning in hopes of catching up with Samsung and LG in AMOLED production.
Taiwanese supplier AU Optronics Corp. is making particularly strong progress, with likely orders from handset manufacturer HTC and Sony.
AU Optronics is expected to start shipping small volumes of AMOLED displays starting in the second quarter, and is apparently planning for AMOLED production at a sixth-generation fab. Fellow Taiwanese manufacturer ChiMei Innolux Corp. is also anticipated to start AMOLED panel production sometime this year. All told, Taiwan’s success in the AMOLED display market will be dependent on the capability of its suppliers to obtain orders from top-tier smartphone makers like Nokia, HTC and Sony.
AMOLED prices rise along with specifications
In mobile phones, AMOLED prices increased 0.9 percent to an average of $54 in February, due to the introduction of new higher-specification AMOLED displays. A price premium of 15 to 20 percent is still commanded by AMOLED displays over comparable low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) LCD displays with touch capabilities.
For example, a 4.3-inch QHD “Super” AMOLED display for mobile phones with an integrated on-cell touch solution, boasting QHD resolution at 960 by 540 pixels, was priced at $51 in January.
Meanwhile, a comparable LTPS LCD plus projected capacitive touch solution together had a total price of $42. The current limited supply of AMOLEDs—along with the distinct advantage of the on-cell touch solution provided by Super AMOLED displays—is helping AMOLEDs maintain their price premium in the market.
In tablets, total average panel prices retreated 0.4 percent to reach $48.87, down from the January average of $49.06. AMOLED tablet displays, meanwhile, stayed at about $100. LG and Samsung remain the pre-eminent suppliers for the tablet PC display market—their dominance due to high capacity and their capability to provide reliable shipments to Apple for its iPad, to Amazon for its Kindle, and to Samsung Electronics for its Galaxy Tab.
Source: IHS iSuppli, USA.
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Avnet Memec adds communication magnetics from HALO Electronics
PHOENIX & MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: Expanding an existing distribution agreement in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Avnet Memec, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet Inc., will offer high-quality, communication magnetics from HALO Electronics Inc. to customers in the Americas.
HALO’s lines of communication magnetics products include signal transformers, filters, CMR chokes and low-power DC/DC converters and DC/DC converter magnetics. In addition, HALO offers a complete line of local area networking (LAN) products including Ethernet (10BASE2, 10BASE-T, 10/100, 1G and 10G), Token Ring, ATM and Fiber Channel over copper. HALO also offers a broad range of wide area network (WAN) products for T1/E1/PRI ISDN, T3/E3/DS3, DSL, as well as 56 and 64Kbps for DDS, DSU and OCU applications.
“Expanding our relationship with Avnet Memec to the Americas provides a unique opportunity to our customers,” according to Jeff Heaton, VP, technical marketing, HALO. “The synergistic product offering and the technical expertise of the Avnet Memec team, along with HALO’s 20-year magnetic experience and patented SMD construction should create an exciting and meaningful relationship.”
“HALO’s industry-leading technology is a perfect complement to the Avnet Memec product offering and provides a great isolation option for designs that integrate Ethernet and/or T1/E1 connections,” said Phil Sansone, senior VP, Avnet Memec. “Our team of technical specialists is ready to help our customers in the Americas find ways to utilize the technology offered from HALO.”
HALO’s lines of communication magnetics products include signal transformers, filters, CMR chokes and low-power DC/DC converters and DC/DC converter magnetics. In addition, HALO offers a complete line of local area networking (LAN) products including Ethernet (10BASE2, 10BASE-T, 10/100, 1G and 10G), Token Ring, ATM and Fiber Channel over copper. HALO also offers a broad range of wide area network (WAN) products for T1/E1/PRI ISDN, T3/E3/DS3, DSL, as well as 56 and 64Kbps for DDS, DSU and OCU applications.
“Expanding our relationship with Avnet Memec to the Americas provides a unique opportunity to our customers,” according to Jeff Heaton, VP, technical marketing, HALO. “The synergistic product offering and the technical expertise of the Avnet Memec team, along with HALO’s 20-year magnetic experience and patented SMD construction should create an exciting and meaningful relationship.”
“HALO’s industry-leading technology is a perfect complement to the Avnet Memec product offering and provides a great isolation option for designs that integrate Ethernet and/or T1/E1 connections,” said Phil Sansone, senior VP, Avnet Memec. “Our team of technical specialists is ready to help our customers in the Americas find ways to utilize the technology offered from HALO.”
Newark element14 stocking Fluke 430 Series II
CHICAGO, USA: Newark element14, the leading distributor of electronic components and engineering solutions in the Americas and a business of Premier Farnell, announced that it was stocking the new Fluke 430 Series II, the first tools to use a patented algorithm to measure energy waste and quantify its cost.
The handheld 430 Series II helps facilities to reduce electrical power consumption and improve the performance and lifespan of electromechanical equipment by providing the ROI justification to mitigate power quality distortion. Electrical engineers, technicians and electricians can now assess the financial impact of new energy-efficient lighting, motor controls and HVAC systems.
As individual installations, these systems consume less energy, but they can increase the level of power quality disturbance in the overall electrical system, thereby increasing waste energy due to harmonics and reducing the total potential energy savings.
The handheld 430 Series II helps facilities to reduce electrical power consumption and improve the performance and lifespan of electromechanical equipment by providing the ROI justification to mitigate power quality distortion. Electrical engineers, technicians and electricians can now assess the financial impact of new energy-efficient lighting, motor controls and HVAC systems.
As individual installations, these systems consume less energy, but they can increase the level of power quality disturbance in the overall electrical system, thereby increasing waste energy due to harmonics and reducing the total potential energy savings.
CommScope builds better, smarter bridge for linking base stations to distributed antenna systems
BANGALORE, INDIA: An “all-in-one,” intelligent point of interface from CommScope offers a smarter way to bridge the connection between base transceiver stations (BTS) and the distributed antenna systems (DAS) that enable wireless connectivity in buildings and large venues.
By some industry estimates, more than 75 percent of today’s mobile calls originate or terminate indoors. Carriers are ramping up DAS deployments to match this growth. With an active option like CommScope’s i-POI, they have another tool for helping manage an aspect of the network that’s been a blind spot and potential source of expense, especially when issues go unnoticed only to become major problems over time.
Visionary by design, CommScope’s new i-POI lends insight into BTS conditioning, helps gain control over passive intermodulation (PIM), provides power control for multi-operator deployment and blends all of these capabilities into a single, compact module.
“Wireless operators, systems integrators and facility owners commonly face issues when planning a DAS deployment or upgrading an existing system,” said Matt Melester, senior vice president and general manager, Distributed Coverage and Capacity Solutions, CommScope. “Their most pressing concerns surround the lack of visibility into the BTS conditioning process, drops in data throughput due to PIM and space constraints. i-POI meets these challenges head on—whether in current CommScope Intelligent Optical Network (ION) environments or a third-party DAS infrastructure.”
i-POI’s smart approach to reducing the components required for BTS conditioning also enables increased visibility into the process of preparing signals for broad distribution. In conventional configurations, BTS conditioning is implemented by piecing together several different discrete components, often from multiple manufacturers. That requires more space and equipment. Design and installation costs also go up and there’s greater potential for introducing PIM into the network.
Multiply that by several carriers with varied frequency bands and things fast become difficult to manage. i-POI makes a complex problem simple and delivers further local and remote monitoring capabilities for setting, controlling, and alarming input and output power levels. Also compared to conventional footprints, i-POI’s sleek, smaller form reduces space requirements by up to 75 percent. i-POI is available now in North America and launches in other regions in the coming months.
By some industry estimates, more than 75 percent of today’s mobile calls originate or terminate indoors. Carriers are ramping up DAS deployments to match this growth. With an active option like CommScope’s i-POI, they have another tool for helping manage an aspect of the network that’s been a blind spot and potential source of expense, especially when issues go unnoticed only to become major problems over time.
Visionary by design, CommScope’s new i-POI lends insight into BTS conditioning, helps gain control over passive intermodulation (PIM), provides power control for multi-operator deployment and blends all of these capabilities into a single, compact module.
“Wireless operators, systems integrators and facility owners commonly face issues when planning a DAS deployment or upgrading an existing system,” said Matt Melester, senior vice president and general manager, Distributed Coverage and Capacity Solutions, CommScope. “Their most pressing concerns surround the lack of visibility into the BTS conditioning process, drops in data throughput due to PIM and space constraints. i-POI meets these challenges head on—whether in current CommScope Intelligent Optical Network (ION) environments or a third-party DAS infrastructure.”
i-POI’s smart approach to reducing the components required for BTS conditioning also enables increased visibility into the process of preparing signals for broad distribution. In conventional configurations, BTS conditioning is implemented by piecing together several different discrete components, often from multiple manufacturers. That requires more space and equipment. Design and installation costs also go up and there’s greater potential for introducing PIM into the network.
Multiply that by several carriers with varied frequency bands and things fast become difficult to manage. i-POI makes a complex problem simple and delivers further local and remote monitoring capabilities for setting, controlling, and alarming input and output power levels. Also compared to conventional footprints, i-POI’s sleek, smaller form reduces space requirements by up to 75 percent. i-POI is available now in North America and launches in other regions in the coming months.
Samsung shocks industry with flexible AMOLED, to threaten market within two years
TAIWAN: According to WitsView, a panel research division of TrendForce, Samsung Mobile Display’s official announcement of its flexible AMOLED display named “Youm” demonstrates its breakthrough from traditional techniques for power consumption, contrast ratio, view angle, color saturation that are no longer the criteria for judging Samsung and its rivals’ competitiveness.
With the help of Samsung Galaxy brand, AMOLED has successfully secured its leading position in mid-to-high-level mobile phone display market for the past two years. However, according to Eric Chiou, TrendForce research director, the lukewarm reception towards newly introduced Samsung 7.7” tablet with AMOLED explains that AMOLED display’s higher cost is less competitive in the price-oriented tablet market.
Meanwhile, the upgraded LCD panel specifications have narrowed its gap with AMOLED display; the trend comes as warning sign for AMOLED display as it becomes more difficult to differentiate between the two. Therefore, flexible AMOLED panel is expected to be the key offering more unique technologies for Samsung to hit a new peak.
Both backplane and encapsulation critical in creating a “flexible” AMOLED, and the usage of bended backplane is the foundation of flexible AMOLED panel development. With flexible AMOLED as the final target, while AMOLED with bended backplane would be a critical milestone for flexible AMOLED to be popularized in the market within the next two years.
Eric Chiou indicates that touch module or LCD panels’ glass layers crack easily when dropped, resulting in high repair costs and inherent danger with broken glass; furthermore, it may impact a brand’s reputation should it involve human safety issues. Replacing traditional glass substrate with bended backplane enables a thinner and lighter AMOLED panel, avoiding broken panel problems completely.
The mass production bottleneck for unbreakable AMOLED display is more achievable when compared with its flexible counterpart, and It is expected to take advantage of its safety to win smart phone and tablet PC markets.
TrendForce analysis indicates that Samsung Mobile Display, nearly dominating the whole AMOLED market, continues to make use of it advanced technology to release flexible AMOLED. In the near future, this product will inevitably join forces with the Samsung brand, the consumer electronic leader. This may not only impact the industry with its exclusive technology, but also further destroy the balanced supply chains, causing brands’ market share to face abrupt changes.
With the help of Samsung Galaxy brand, AMOLED has successfully secured its leading position in mid-to-high-level mobile phone display market for the past two years. However, according to Eric Chiou, TrendForce research director, the lukewarm reception towards newly introduced Samsung 7.7” tablet with AMOLED explains that AMOLED display’s higher cost is less competitive in the price-oriented tablet market.
Meanwhile, the upgraded LCD panel specifications have narrowed its gap with AMOLED display; the trend comes as warning sign for AMOLED display as it becomes more difficult to differentiate between the two. Therefore, flexible AMOLED panel is expected to be the key offering more unique technologies for Samsung to hit a new peak.
Both backplane and encapsulation critical in creating a “flexible” AMOLED, and the usage of bended backplane is the foundation of flexible AMOLED panel development. With flexible AMOLED as the final target, while AMOLED with bended backplane would be a critical milestone for flexible AMOLED to be popularized in the market within the next two years.
Eric Chiou indicates that touch module or LCD panels’ glass layers crack easily when dropped, resulting in high repair costs and inherent danger with broken glass; furthermore, it may impact a brand’s reputation should it involve human safety issues. Replacing traditional glass substrate with bended backplane enables a thinner and lighter AMOLED panel, avoiding broken panel problems completely.
The mass production bottleneck for unbreakable AMOLED display is more achievable when compared with its flexible counterpart, and It is expected to take advantage of its safety to win smart phone and tablet PC markets.
TrendForce analysis indicates that Samsung Mobile Display, nearly dominating the whole AMOLED market, continues to make use of it advanced technology to release flexible AMOLED. In the near future, this product will inevitably join forces with the Samsung brand, the consumer electronic leader. This may not only impact the industry with its exclusive technology, but also further destroy the balanced supply chains, causing brands’ market share to face abrupt changes.
Rittal re-inforces its commitment to India
BANGALORE, INDIA: Rittal India, the world’s largest manufacturing company in the field of Industrial enclosure systems, strengthened its presences in India by bagging the best innovation award for “Liquid Cooling Package (LCP)”.
Rittal RimatriX5 solves the problem of climate control for high heat losses per rack with the Liquid Cooling Package range. Extremely high heat loads are dissipated from the rack via the LCP air/water heat exchanger. Additionally, this system also allows temperature-neutral expansion of the data centre with pay as you grow concept, in terms of scalability and modularity.
Rittal Liquid Cooling Package is a Green and Energy saving Product. Huge energy savings come from cooling only the racks and not the room, doing targeted cooling of servers / IT equipment in closed loop, avoiding unnecessary waste of energy of cooling the entire data center room. Apart from energy saving, Rittal Liquid Cooling Package also monitors and automatically controls to increase the energy efficiency.
Rittal LCP 60kW is an innovation for HPC (high performance computing) cooling requirement, where the density of the rack is above 35kW. LCP 60kW does the DC cooling with high cooling output in a minimal area, as it’s a known fact that water is the most efficient means of cooling when compared to a refrigerant based system. With conventional room cooling, a very large volume of air must be permanently cooled. With LCP based direct rack cooling concepts, only the racks are cooled in a sealed system. This cuts investment & energy cost substantially. Rittal range of LCP cooling starts from 10kW, 20, kW, 30kW, 40kW, 50kW, 60kW in the with LCP Platform.
Rittal RimatriX5 solves the problem of climate control for high heat losses per rack with the Liquid Cooling Package range. Extremely high heat loads are dissipated from the rack via the LCP air/water heat exchanger. Additionally, this system also allows temperature-neutral expansion of the data centre with pay as you grow concept, in terms of scalability and modularity.
Rittal Liquid Cooling Package is a Green and Energy saving Product. Huge energy savings come from cooling only the racks and not the room, doing targeted cooling of servers / IT equipment in closed loop, avoiding unnecessary waste of energy of cooling the entire data center room. Apart from energy saving, Rittal Liquid Cooling Package also monitors and automatically controls to increase the energy efficiency.
Rittal LCP 60kW is an innovation for HPC (high performance computing) cooling requirement, where the density of the rack is above 35kW. LCP 60kW does the DC cooling with high cooling output in a minimal area, as it’s a known fact that water is the most efficient means of cooling when compared to a refrigerant based system. With conventional room cooling, a very large volume of air must be permanently cooled. With LCP based direct rack cooling concepts, only the racks are cooled in a sealed system. This cuts investment & energy cost substantially. Rittal range of LCP cooling starts from 10kW, 20, kW, 30kW, 40kW, 50kW, 60kW in the with LCP Platform.
Global market for printed electronics to reach $12.6 billion in 2016
MONTREAL, CANADA: ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announced the availability of a new report entitled "Printed Electronics: The Global Market".
According to a new technical market research repor, the global market for printed electronics was valued at nearly $3.5 billion in 2011 and is expected to increase to $12.6 billion in 2016, a five-year CAGR of 29.4 percent.
The market for printed electronics can be broken down into five segments: optoelectronics, energy, sensors, radio frequency, and other. The optoelectronics segment accounted for nearly $2.3 billion in 2011 and is expected to increase at a CAGR of 31.6 percent to reach $8.9 billion in 2016. The energy segment accounted for $525 million in 2011 and is expected to increase at a CAGR of 22.8 percent to reach nearly $1.5 billion in 2016.
The segment made up of sensors, worth $145 million in 2011, is projected to experience a CAGR of 40.4 percent to reach a value of nearly $794 million in 2016. The radio frequency segment was valued at $35.3 million in 2011 and should reach nearly $152 million in 2016, a CAGR of 33.9 percent. The other segment was worth $518 million in 2011 and, by 2016, should be worth nearly $1.3 billion, a CAGR of 20 percent.
Printed electronics represent a growing technology for fabricating electronic devices on materials such as paper, plastic, and textiles using electrically functional inks in combination with standard printing processes such as screen printing, offset Lithography, and ink-jet printing. Printed electronics are steadily proving that they have the potential to bring about a revolution in electronic applications.
Today, the potentially revolutionary character of printed electronics lies not only in its low cost, ease of manufacturing, and small size and light weight. It also lies in the ability of printed electronics to facilitate applications that are not feasible or are uneconomical with conventional silicon-based electronics. Flexible displays, smart labels, and animated signage are examples of such applications. Therefore, printed electronics has not only enhanced existing markets but is also creating new market opportunities.
According to a new technical market research repor, the global market for printed electronics was valued at nearly $3.5 billion in 2011 and is expected to increase to $12.6 billion in 2016, a five-year CAGR of 29.4 percent.
The market for printed electronics can be broken down into five segments: optoelectronics, energy, sensors, radio frequency, and other. The optoelectronics segment accounted for nearly $2.3 billion in 2011 and is expected to increase at a CAGR of 31.6 percent to reach $8.9 billion in 2016. The energy segment accounted for $525 million in 2011 and is expected to increase at a CAGR of 22.8 percent to reach nearly $1.5 billion in 2016.
The segment made up of sensors, worth $145 million in 2011, is projected to experience a CAGR of 40.4 percent to reach a value of nearly $794 million in 2016. The radio frequency segment was valued at $35.3 million in 2011 and should reach nearly $152 million in 2016, a CAGR of 33.9 percent. The other segment was worth $518 million in 2011 and, by 2016, should be worth nearly $1.3 billion, a CAGR of 20 percent.
Printed electronics represent a growing technology for fabricating electronic devices on materials such as paper, plastic, and textiles using electrically functional inks in combination with standard printing processes such as screen printing, offset Lithography, and ink-jet printing. Printed electronics are steadily proving that they have the potential to bring about a revolution in electronic applications.
Today, the potentially revolutionary character of printed electronics lies not only in its low cost, ease of manufacturing, and small size and light weight. It also lies in the ability of printed electronics to facilitate applications that are not feasible or are uneconomical with conventional silicon-based electronics. Flexible displays, smart labels, and animated signage are examples of such applications. Therefore, printed electronics has not only enhanced existing markets but is also creating new market opportunities.
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