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Samsung opens up preorders for Smart Monitor M8

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung has started taking pre-orders for a new 32″ UltraHD smart monitor, the M8. (Samsung Electronics Announces M8, the New and Stylish Smart Monitor Series). The monitor supports streaming video through …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Smart Monitors

BETT 2022: Part II – the Display Details

by Bob Raikes

Last week I reported on the ‘big picture’ view of what I learned at BETT in London last week. Today I’ll add some detail on the products and technology that I saw. ViewSonic updated …

Tags:anti-microbial| BenQ| BETT 2022| Infrared Touch| Interactive Displays| NFC| Notebooks| ViewSonic

Unity Cites Considerable Eye-Tracking Advantages With PS VR2 

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Reality Check from The Information reported that at the recent Game Developers’ Conference, software engine developer Unity went into some detail about the improvements that dynamic foveated rendering could make …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition

Huawei Suffers in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Huawei saw its revenue drop by 28.5% in 2021 to $99.9 billion with consumer sales (including smartphones) down 50%. Wearables were actually up by 30% along with smart speakers, and, bizarrely …

Tags:Financial Data| Huawei

Apple Scaling Back iPhone SE Production?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei Asia reported that Apple has cut back its forecast for the iPhone SE production in Q2 2022 by around two to three million units as it sees markets reacting to …

Tags:Apple| Forecasts| Market Data| Smartphone Market

The SID/DSCC Business Conference Will Highlight TV Technology

by Artem Alekseenko

The 2022 SID/DSCC Business Conference at DisplayWeek, sponsored by Applied Materials, Corning, GE and Amorphyx will feature over 35 different talks on all aspects of the display industry. One of five application-oriented sessions of …

Tags:Applied Materials| Corning| SID Society

2021 semiconductor rankings

Samsung retains top spot in Omdia Q4 2021 semiconductor market analysis

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Omdia reported its Q4 2021 figures for the semiconductor business showing that Intel just, barely, squeezed past Samsung Electronics for the year as a whole although Samsung was in top spot …

Tags:AMD| Broadcom| Financial Data| Intel| Mediatek| Nvidia| Qualcomm| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| TI (Texas Instruments)

Samsung Sued for Infringement of HEVC Essential Patents

by Artem Alekseenko

MPEG LA announced that enforcement actions have been brought in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Samsung Electronics GmbHfor infringement of patents in MPEG LA’s HEVC Patent Portfolio License. The patents are essential to the HEVC …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| MPEG| Patents| Samsung