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Imagination Designs New MIPS for Android L

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Imagination Technologies has refreshed the ageing MIPS architecture with a new 64-bit processor, the MIPS I6400. It is a multi-core SoC with integrated graphics and simultaneous multithreading; up to four threads per core, simultaneously, …

Tags:Chips| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| SOCs| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Google Preparing for Android One?

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A launch of Google’s Android One initiative, which aims to unify the fragmented OS in entry-level smartphones, may be approaching. Invitations have been sent to an event in India on 15th September. Google has …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 36

Nigeria Details ASO Requirements

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Nigeria will need about 40 million DTT receivers to successfully move to digital broadcasting, said the company’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). It will also require ‘at least’ NGN60 billion ($368.6 million). Display Daily Comments …

Tags:DTV| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Digital TV Labs’ Test Suite Checks Compliance

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Digital TV Labs is launching products designed to accelerate the development and deployment of UltraHD HEVC services. The organisation’s HEVC for DVB Test Suite enables SoC, STB and TV vendors to check their products’ …

Tags:4k| DTV| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

WiGig Enables Dual ‘UltraHD’ Displays

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DisplayLink has demonstrated the use of dual ‘UltraHD’ (DisplayLink says that the resolution was 3098 x 2160) displays being operated over a 60GHz WiGig connection. Taking place at the Intel Developer Forum, the demo …

Tags:4k| Desktop Monitors| DisplayLink| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21| WiGIG

JVC’s Cracked Neck Causes Tipping

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About 27,000 JVC 42″ TVs have been affected by a warranty issue in the USA. It has been found that the neck of the stand on the EM42FTR (serial number beginning with ‘T’) can …

Tags:JVC| Large Display Monitor| Recalls & Problems| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Fossil Joins Forces With Intel

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Fossil and Intel have announced their intent to join forces to create wearable products for ‘fasion-oriented’ consumers. The company said that it would create Android Wear devices earlier this year.

Tags:Android Wear| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Wearables

Fove Plans Dev Kit in 2015

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Japan’s Fove has built a proof-of-concept head-mounted display with eye tracking. It is now preparing to release a developers’ kit in 2015. Fove says that its product may enable people with restricted use of …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 36

Himax to Develop AR Glasses With Optinvent

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Himax Display, which manufactures LCOS microdisplays for Himax, is to enter a partnership with Optinvent – producer of the Ora Smart Glasses. The companies will aim to produce ‘next-generation’ AR glasses, using Himax’s LCOS …

Tags:AR Glasses| LCOS| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

AUO Brings Fast Refresh to IPS

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Gamers have long been stuck with using TN panels in their monitors. Although these types have narrower viewing angles and worse colour reproduction than IPS or VA, they also have the fastest response times …

Tags:Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| LCD displays| LCD Modules| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

CEE Thin-Client Market Outlook Lowered for 2014

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The EMEA thin-client market posted double-digit growth in Q2 2014 for the second quarter in a row, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Client Device Tracker report from IDC. Economic recovery in Western …

Tags:Europe| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Thin Clients| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

CMOS Sensor Enables 100fps Gesture Tracking

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A Japanese firm, Exvision, has developed a technology for high-speed gesture control using a conventional CMOS sensor. The Exvision Gesture System (EGS) can recognise both of a user’s hands at 100fps, says the Nikkei …

Tags:Gesture Recognition| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21