Year: 2021

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Renesas Fire Adds to Chip Woes

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Renesas has suffered a fire at is plant in Naka, (located in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture). The damage was limited to around 5% of the clean room area, and the plant’s 300mm …

Tags:Renesas| Semiconductor Market

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Pollen in a Display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Klaus Wammes, the CEO of Wammes and Partner, GmbH, posted a picture of pollen found in a flat panel display. He pointed out that exposed to any moisture, there is a …

Tags:LCD displays| warranty

DVDO H.264/265 Encoder / Decoder Simplify Real-Time Visual Communication

by Artem Alekseenko

DVDO®, leveraging over two decades of award-winning Pro AV video and data connectivity leadership, introduced DVDO-H264/5-Encoder and DVDO-H264/5-Decoder, designed to convert Full HD 1080p video from any HDMI source into high-quality H.264/5 streams over …

Tags:Pro AV| Video Encoders & Decoders

8K At The HPA Tech Retreat

by Pete Putman

The annual Hollywood Professional Association Technology Retreat is right up there with my favorite conferences. In fact, it might be at the top of the list, as the event always attracts top-notch presenters armed …

Tags:Broadcast| HPA Tech Retreat 2021| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Android Authority Like the Huawei Mate X2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Android Authority reviewed the new Huawei Mate X2 foldable smartphone and was very impressed. It likes the fact that when folded, the phone has a traditional 21:9 aspect ratio with a …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Huawei| Smartphones

Samsung Pushes Home Monitor Use

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung put out a very graphic-heavy post that showed the use of its S65UA wide screen monitor and how it can be used in a home PC set-uo What We Think …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Samsung

Samsung Launches New High-Resolution 2021 Monitor Lineup

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung released a number of new office monitors in three series, the S8, S7 and S6 with sizes from 24″ to 34″ and resolutions of 3440 x 1440 (WQuadHD), 2560 x …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Ethernet| Samsung

New LED Technology Enables Emission of Circularly Polarized Light

by Arthur Berman

There are real incentives to develop LED materials and device configurations that emit circularly polarized light. Using conventional approaches, close to half of the unpolarized light produced by an LED can be blocked by …

Tags:LED| PeLED (Perovskite LED)| R&D (Research & Development)

TCL Huaxing’s Foldable Screen Shipments to Surpass BOE

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A market research agency, Magirror Research, sent us a report that claims that TCL Huaxing, based on success for the Motorola Razr folding smartphone, would make more shipments than those of …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Market Data

Advantages and Challenges for QDs in MicroLEDs

by Bob Raikes

I’m still catching up with all the news from a lot of virtual events over the last few weeks, but here’s my second article from the Electronic Displays Conference in Nuremburg. I’m covering a …

Tags:Microdisplays| MicroLED| OLEDs| Perovskite| Quantum Dots