Samsung nabs 3% of Sharp for $112M, taking their display relationship to the next level

Samsung's latest strategy? Nabbing tiny stakes in companies it relies heavily on.

Apple’s iPhone 5 display orders reportedly cut in half, weak demand blamed

Apple may have overestimated just how many display panels (and other components) it needed to meet the iPhone 5's demand.

Viewsonic announces new line of smart & touchscreen displays

Viewsonic debuted a new line of touchscreen display monitors at the 2013 CES today that are targeted at the next generation of PCs.

Applied Materials crafts the giant machines to make ultra-high definition displays

Applied Materials' new technology will make even better displays possible.

Samsung denies rumors that it stopped selling displays to Apple (update)

Samsung is severing its display deal with Apple as the relationship between the two companies continues to go downhill.

Sony refreshes interface for its entertainment network

Sony modernizes the user interface for its network for videos, music and games.

Touchscreen displays will become a $31.9B market by 2018

Touchscreens will double to a $31.9 billion market by 2018.

iPhone 5 nears: Sharp to start shipping screens to Apple this month

Sharp revealed today that it will begin shipping new smartphone screens to Apple this month, which are widely expected to end up in the iPhone 5, Reuters reports.

Sharp President Takashi Okuda said simply, “Shipments will start in August,” during …

iPhone 5 will get thinner screen with in-cell tech, says WSJ

Seemingly confirming rumors from April, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the next iPhone will sport a thinner display using in-cell technology, which integrates touch sensors directly into the LCD.

Sharp, LG, and Japan Display (a joint company between …

iPhone 5 may get a taller (but not wider) 3.95-inch display

How exactly will Apple fit a larger screen into its next iPhone? If the latest rumor is true, it’s by making the display (and resolution) taller.

Apple is reportedly testing prototype phones with 3.95-inch displays, which are taller, but remain …

The year of the Retina display: New MacBook Airs, iMacs may get it too

It seems like 2012 will become the year when utra-high resolution computer displays become the norm — at least on Apple’s devices.

Following up on Monday’s news about Retina displays (among other upgrades) in new MacBook Pros, 9to5Mac is reporting …

Samsung spins off unprofitable display biz, will focus on OLED

Samsung has finished the spin-off of its display company to create Samsung Display, the world’s single-largest maker of LCD displays, the company announced today.

The company announced its intention to spin-off its unprofitable LCD display business in mid-February. Despite $20.1 …

LG’s bendy plastic e-reader display to be released next month

We fold our newspapers, bend back our magazines, so why not our e-readers? LG Display has released a new plastic, flexible display that probably won’t let us fold tablets in half, but may bring the bendy-future closer to consumers.

The …

Hon Hai’s $1.6B Sharp investment could point to Apple TV set

A seemingly curious investment of $1.6 billion in Sharp by Taiwan’s Hon Hai, which owns Apple-device manufacturer Foxconn, could be a huge indicator that an Apple TV set is on the way.

The deal was originally thought to be worth …

Tests confirm new iPad’s display is close to studio reference quality

You’ve seen us gush about the new iPad’s Retina Display, but now the screen tech experts at DisplayMate have run their tests and confirmed that it basically blows everything else away.

“Apple has taken the very good display on the …

More evidence that iPad 3 will have hi-res Retina display

Rumors have been swirling around that Apple‘s iPad 3 will be outfitted with a coveted high-resolution Retina display.

One of these displays for an iPad 3 unit may have made it into hands outside Apple’s supply chain.

MacRumors allegedly has …

LCD display makers to pay $553M in price-fixing conspiracy case

Seven major LCD display makers have agreed to pay more than $553 million for illegally conspiring to fix prices of thin film transistor (LFT) LCD panels used in television, computer and laptop screens. Samsung Electronics, Sharp and Chimei Innolux are …

Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi combine small display forces to form Japan Display

If you need further evidence that Japan’s display business isn’t so hot today, just take a look at the newly formed Japan Display, a joint small and medium-sized display venture between Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi.

The companies are working together …

Cool stuff: Perceptive Pixel’s 82-inch multi-touch touchscreen display

Jeff Han, the CEO of Perceptive Pixel, is one of the pioneers of touchscreen displays, having gone public with his touchscreen display technology a year before Apple launched the iPhone in 2007. Now his company has unveiled an 82-inch multitouch …