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Analyst: Are the console wars over?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Market researcher Dataxis released its estimates of console sales by Sony and Microsoft in the ‘console wars’, with the result (17 million for Sony, 12 million for Microsoft) suggesting that Sony …

Tags:Consoles| Market Data

Links Week Ending 25th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. (Apologies – this should have been …

Tags:Apple| Barco| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Game Playing| Google| Interactive Displays| Market Data| Materials| Mediatek| Motion Capture| Qualcomm| R&D (Research & Development)| Semiconductor Market| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| ViewSonic| Wireless

HP and Lenovo Chromebooks expected to support Steam

by Bob Raikes

What They Say 9to5Google spotted that a plan for Chromebooks to support the Steam gaming service might be getting close as it said that Google now has timelines on the implementation. The site found …

Tags:Chromebooks| Game Playing| GPUs| Nvidia

Researchers Taken Facial Recognition in VR to a New Level

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers from Australia, New Zealand and India have used facial recognition technology to use users’ expressions to trigger actions in virtual environments, potentially reducing the need for hand-held controllers. Smiling, frowning …

Tags:face recognition| HMI| R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

BOE Develops 8K 120 Hz Panel

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association contacted BOE to get more information about a 110″ 8K 120Hz LCD that had been developed. The article points out that the panel uses the same technology as …

Tags:BOE| HFR - High Frame Rate| LCD Panels| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TVs (TV Sets)

Samsung uses last year’s OLED material set for S22 Ultra

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung is using the same OLED material set – described as the M11 set – on the Galaxy S22 Ultra as it used on the S21 Ultra …

Tags:AMOLED| iPhone| OLED Materials| Samsung| Smartphones

AUO Optimistic about LTPS Automotive Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes reported on the automotive market for displays and spoke to AUO which said that it is basing a lot of new projects in that sector on LTPS backplanes. The site …

Tags:AUO| Automotive| LCD displays| LTPS TFT| Market Data| Pricing

Apple’s Getting its Mac Mojo Back

by Bob Raikes

Today, I’m going to get away from the techie details that I love so much and indulge myself by talking about the Apple Mac and the way that Apple seems to have re-discovered its …

Tags:Apple| PCs

DSCC Sees Continued Strong Growth for Foldables

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC updated on its latest Foldable/Rollable Report and highlighted that panel shipments more than tripled to 10 million in 2021, up 207%. Smartphone shipments were 6% better than forecast at 7.98 …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Notebooks| Smartphone Market

Galaxy S22 & S22+ Refresh Rates are Refreshed

by Bob Raikes

The display world is full of specifications that relate to the response time of display devices. However, often it’s too easy to get fixated on one part of what is usually quite a complex …

Tags:AMOLED| LTPO TFT| LTPS TFT| Samsung| Smartphones

Omdia Reveals LGE OLED TV Numbers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED-Info reported data, attributed to Omdia, on LG Electronics’ 2021 shipments which were over 4 million in 2021, more than double the level of 2020. In Q4, the firm shipped 1.9 …

Tags:Market Data| OLED TVs| Transparent Displays| Xiaomi