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India to Standardise on USB Type-C

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The India Times reports that India is to follow the EU in standardising on USB Type-C for electronic devices including smartphones, notebooks and tablets and the regulation could be in place …

Tags:Apple| India| USB

UltraHD Forum Updates on the ‘State of the Union’

by Bob Raikes

Yesterday, we reported on the talk by Paul Gray of Omdia at the 4KHDR Summit about the state of the TV market and today we have report on the talk from the same event …

Omdia Updates on TV at the 4KHDR Summit

by Bob Raikes

This week the 4KHDR Forum in Spain held its annual long summit – it lasts the week! I picked a couple of talks to listen to online that I thought would be of most …

More on the HTC ‘Flowcus’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Yesterday we reported on the leak about a new HTC headset (New HTC Headset Leaked?). After the video that we reported went online, the creator was contacted with more information. The …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality

Qualcomm Has New AR-specific Chips and a Reference Design

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm has a new chip series, the AR2 Gen 1 that is intended for use in smartglasses. The processor, co-processor, and Wi-Fi 7 system combo is said to take up 40% less …

Tags:Augmented Reality| CPUs| Qualcomm| Semiconductors

Fans Make a Folding iPhone

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A group of engineers in China has disassembled an iPhone X and re-assembled it using a Motorola Razr folding mechanism to create a kind of ‘foldable iPhone’. There’s a 17 minute …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| iPhone

Nvidia Down in Q3 FY 2023

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nvidia’s results for Q3 of its financial yeat to the end of October, with revenue down 17% YoY and 12% QoQ to $5,931 with margin also down 11.6 points from last …

Tags:Financial Data| GPUs| Semiconductors

trinamiX Face Authentication Optimized for New Snapdragon Mobile Platform at Snapdragon Summit 2022

by Bob Raikes

What They Say BASF spin-off, Trinamix GmbH said at the Snapdragon Summit that it has certified face recognition technology for smartphones that can sit behind an OLED and is included in a Qualcomm reference …

Tags:face recognition| OLEDs| Qualcomm| Smartphones

New HTC Headset Leaked?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A YouTuber, Brad Lynch, appears to have leaked details of the design of the next HTC VR headset which combines the slim form factor of the Vive Flow with the standalone …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality

Samsung’s Galaxy M54 OLED to be developed by BOE and CSOT

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that a new OLED display for a budget Samsung smartphone for the Southeast Asia market, the M54, is being developed by BOE and CSOT. It is unclear whether …

Tags:BOE| CSOT| OLEDs| Smartphones

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Supports 8K60p AV1 Decoding

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm has announced its latest APU, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which adds hardware support for decoding AV1 video at 8K60fps with HDR support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision. (Qualcomm is adding …

Magic Leap 2 is the best AR headset

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Magic Leap has taken a fair amount of criticism in recent years largely because it ‘over-promised’ and rais nearly $2 billion to build AR headsets. However a review by Engadget was …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Testing