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DSC Promotes WILL for Digital Ink

by Bob Raikes

The Digital Stationery Consortium, Inc. (DSC) announced a new white paper, “New Business Opportunities Fueled by the Emerging Digital Stationery Market” that looks at the development of ‘digital ink’ and the the development of …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pen Input| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Crossbar Switch for USB Type-C is Up for Award

by Bob Raikes

Diodes Inc has been shortlisted for an award for the PI3USB31532 USB 3.1 Gen 2/DisplayPort 1.4 Crossbar Switch for USB Type-C. The company, which is in the running for an Ace award, claims to …

Barco Silex Wins Imagenics 4K HDMI adaptor

by Bob Raikes

Barco Silex said that Imagenics of Japan is using its VC-2 HQ codec (standardized as SMPTE ST-2042) in its new 4K IMG.Link Rev2 HDMI receiver and transmitter modules for long range video transmission. They …

DVB Completes UHD-1 Specification

by Bob Raikes

The DVB steering board has finalised the DVB UHD-1 specification, which is now considered complete and supports HDR, UltraHD resolution, wide colour gamut and HFR. There are also amendments to the ETSI TS 103 …

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Correction

by Bob Raikes

Apologies, in our report on the NEC New York showcase, we referred to the NEC dual laser technology as “Laser Plus”. That was incorrect and the correct term is “RB Laser” and NEC has …

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Samsung Engineering to Start Construction of SDC’s A5 Fab

by Bob Raikes

The OLED Association has reported that Samsung Display has contracted with Samsung Engineering to spend $218 million for construction work on the A5 flexible OLED display plant. The plant is due to start production …

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Zeon Developing Film for OLEDs

by Bob Raikes

Zeon of Japan is reported to be developing a planarisation film for helping with the sealing of flexible OLEDs and is designed to be used between barrier films. Volume production is forecast for the …

Apple Planning Rear-Facing 3-D Sensors for AR

by Bob Raikes

Apple is said to be working on a rear-facing 3D sensor system for next year’s iPhone according to Bloomberg. The news service said that the technology was intended to help with AR by better …

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Samsung Galaxy A5 Expected at CES

by Bob Raikes

Samsung is well known for its Galaxy S series and Note smartphones, but the company sells phones at a range of specifications. The A5 (2018( is the next in the A series of mainstream …

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Marvell to Buy Cavium

by Bob Raikes

Marvell has agreed to buy fellow chip maker, Cavium, which specialises in chips that are used in HDD controllers, network devices and data processing systems. The companies will have a combined revenue of $3.4 …

Toshiba Placing Shares to Raise Cash

by Bob Raikes

Toshiba has arranged a private share placing that will raise ¥600 billion ($5.33 billion) which should enable the company to avoid a delisting of its stock from the Tokyo Stock Exchange at the end …

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OLED Has My Heart, But LCD Still Has my Head

by Bob Raikes

A couple of weeks ago, Norbert looked at the recent results from Samsung and LG’s OLED businesses. Since then, DSCC has released some data from its Japan OLED event at the end of October …

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