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GPU Shipments Soar in Q1 Year-over-Year

by Artem Alekseenko

The PC GPU market shipments increased by 35% year-to-year and decreased slightly by -.3% from last quarter. According to a new research report from the analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, the growth of the …

Tags:GPUs| Jon Peddie Research (JPR)

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iPhones to Capture 40% of Smartphone Market Value in 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Juniper Research forecast that sales of iPhones will bring in over $200 billion in 2022 – nearly 40% of the value of the market from less than 20% of the units …

Tags:Apple| Forecasts| Smartphone Market

Some Quick Takes on 8K “Per-Title” Encoding

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association discussed ‘per-title’ encoding (“per-title encoding” is a Netflix term that refers to creating encoding parameters on a scene-by-scene basis) of 8K content with Jan Ozer. There were two …

Tags:Codecs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Visual Quality

Sony Aiming for Excitement

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reported on Sony’s annual update to its direction and took the chance to highlight how the firm’s strategy has developed over recent decades. The event was typically used in the …

Tags:Financial Data| sony

Immersion Delivers a Needed Break from Reality

by Andy Marken

For a number of years during college we shared a house with foreign physics and chemistry grad students. To avoid studying, we’d get in these deep philosophical discussions on what reality and being really …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

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Samsung System LSI begins development of 3 T-Con for QD-OLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung System LSI is developing three TCons for QD-OLED displays that Samsung Display is planning to launch for: a 4K QD-OLED TV, a 8K QD-OLED TV and …

Tags:Display Drivers| QD OLEDs| Samsung| Semiconductors

LG Runs an OLED Design Competition

by Bob Raikes

What They Say LG Display had a competition with UK design magazine Dezeen, to create new OLED-based products and received 220 entries from more than 50 countries. The winner was ‘Scroll’ which was based …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| LG Displays (LGD)| OLEDs| TVs (TV Sets)

New Panasonic 4k 1-chip Projectors Aimed at Schools and Museums

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Panasonic has pre-announced three new 1 chip DLP projectors that will be available in October and will have 8,000 (PT-RDQ80), 9,000 (PT-RDQ90) and 10,000 (PT-RDQ10) from 0.66″ (16.8mm) diagonal 2716 x …

Tags:DLP Projectors| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Projectors| UltraHD

HannStar to start rolling out LPRD panels

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reports that Hannstar has focused on making more low power reflective display panels this year. Target applications are smart retailing, education, transportation, fitness, and environmental protection as the firm expects …

Tags:Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)