CDS Embedded World Trip: Insights from the Exhibition & Conference

Here at CDS we saw Embedded World as a great opportunity to visit many of our key Far East based electronic display, touch and embedded partners and to also investigate new products, technologies, and potentially forge new partnerships. 

With a heavy workload back at the office it could only be a whistle stop tour, however the team of MD Chris Bartram and the component display Sales Manager, Paul Tagg managed to cram in ten formal meetings and a similar amount stand stop offs in an afternoon and a morning’s visit.  With both Chris and Paul having been in the display business for more years than either of them cares to remember they inevitably bumped into familiar faces along the way which slowed their progress, so apologies to those partners we kept waiting.

The range of displays and peripheral devices on show across the whole exhibition was amazing and it was clear to see that all our existing partners were still at the forefront of display and touch technology with new sizes available within the circular and bar TFT styles as well as new additions to the industry standard formats, plus we can expect big things over the coming months within our PMOLED display range. 

One of the new display features that caught our eye was the latest “Immersive Texture” displays, where fixed backgrounds such as a wood grain effect can be seen even with the display off, the background remains constant even once the display is on. Other display features which were being showcased were “only seen when on”, where the display when used with a PCAP touch is literally only visible when on, at other times it is all black with no display window is visible.  As you would expect with an embedded exhibition there were many embedded display systems on show from very simple SOM (system on module) devices, UART displays, USB-Type C displays plus full IP65, IK11 certified panel PCs.