Ok lets break this down a bit... https://gigaom
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https://gigaom.com/2016/07/15/dr-michael-edel...th-gigaom/
Does this sound like they have full automation of their process ? Hardly when there is to many cooks in the kitchen stirring their own "batches" and readying them for the "seeding "process.Anyone ever watch a seed grow ?Also I would ask . what TVs ?There isn't a tv with Nano in it currently.
We are essentially chemists and we are making these quantum dots in chemical reactors. In essence we are high-tech cooks, we add ingredients ( Step 1 }, we stir those ingredients { step 2 )and we heat them.( step 3 } How we do it is fairly sophisticated but the advantage of this is that the finished product is very cost effective to make, so we can apply these onto TVs today. Those TVs are at a price point that you and I can buy. Whereas quantum computing today is not there yet.
More to the process
We accurately manufacture these materials, growing these crystals of one, two, three, five, seven nanometers. It would be as if you had a very tiny golf ball with a diameter of one nanometer, and you expanded it.
Also misleading statements making it sound as if they are imbedded in Samsung Tvs
The technology right now is getting launched into the marketplace. The Company has signed a number of deals, and probably [the one] that we’re known for is with Dow Chemical. Dow has built a large facility in South Korea to service the display industry, mainly the Korean TV giants. And the first products coming online are products from Samsung. You can go to Best Buy today and buy a new Samsung TV with enhanced color that comes from quantum dot technology . The first market to take off is the display market, and in the display market the first products are the high end color enhanced 4K displays. We are talking about LCD TV’s and LCD is the predominant display technology out there with about 240 million LCD TVs being sold each year. We’re helping the LCD technology, which has been around for a number of years, evolve and continue to get better.
There has been here say from this company on a number of fronts for many years and what i gather from a number of visits to qd companies attending events,news stories and adverts for job openings is that the world of scale up is far more difficult than they first imagined.Some thought Solyndra with their claimed advanced solar tech and endless amounts of investment dollars wouldnt fail.Well we know that story very well..Capex and Opex did them in.
6 months till end of year.I believe we will be well served in our investment in QMC NA and QMC Asia by then.