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Renesas Brings 3D To Entry Level Cars

by Bob Raikes

Renesas has announced the R-Car 3D chip which is designed to support 3D graphics in car dashboards at a system cost that is said to be at the same level as 2D. It is …

Tags:Automotive| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Renesas| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 44

RSCrypto Now Supports Mstar chips

by Bob Raikes

RSCrypto of Chengdu, China, a maker of Conditional Access Security (CAS) said that it is now supporting SMI’s key derivation architecture on MStar K1, K5, K7 series chips. The company believes that key derivation …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Lenovo P52S Has Quadro Graphics & “Side Dock”

by Bob Raikes

Lenovo has released some new tower workstations, the P520 and P520c, and a new mobile workstation, the P52s. There are three 15.6″ display options, with FullHD, FullHD Touch or UltraHD resolution. The system uses …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 44| Workstations

Samsung LED Cinema in Europe

by Bob Raikes

Samsung is installing its first commercial LED Cinema installation in Europe in Zurich, Switzerland, with a single screen system in for the Arena Cinema, which will also install new seating. Samsung Switzerland said that …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED Cinema| Samsung| Switzerland| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Christie 3 Chip Projector Uses Red & Blue Lasers

by Bob Raikes

Christie previewed the Crimson 3 DLP BoldColor Laser Phosphor projector at ISE and launched it officially at LDI 2017. The projector produces 22,300 ANSI (25,000 ISO) in its 1920 x 1200 version (WU25) or …

Tags:Christie| Large Display Monitor| Laser Phosphor Projectors| Vol 24 - Issue 44

An Update on LED Displays

by Bob Raikes

LED Inside has published article that talks about the differences between fine pitch LED, miniLED and microLED. The blog sees products with pitch of 1.2mm (e.g. Sony Cledis) or 2.5mm like Samsung’s Cinema LED …

Tags:CES 2018| Direct Backlights| Large Display Monitor| LCD Backlights| LED Cinema| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Thanks for the Memory

by Bob Raikes

We were flat out this week as we were finalising our market data for Q3 at the same time as we created this week’s issues, so there has been little time to sit back …

Tags:Editorial| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Vol 24 - Issue 43

Tesla Roadster Shown at Truck Launch

by Bob Raikes

Tesla surprised everyone that attended its event to launch a new truck, by also announcing a new roadster at the end of the show. The show is outrageously fast with 0-60mph acceleration time of …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 43

LG OLED TVs on Offer in the US for Black Friday

by Bob Raikes

LG Electronics USA unveiled special Black Friday 2017 pricing on its LG OLED TVs, highlighted by a 55-inch class model available for under $1,500 for the first time ever. From Nov. 19-27, LG OLED’s …

Tags:Black Friday| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 43

ADB Wins New Project With Melita

by Bob Raikes

ADB said that the quadruple-play cable operator, Melita, of Malta, has chosen the firm to implement the commercial launch of its TV service. ADB will provide an STB that supports RDK middleware and services, …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 24 - Issue 44

Densitron Highlights Temperature Range of LCDs

by Bob Raikes

Densitron of the UK has released a new range of TFT displays that can support operation from -30ºC to 85ºC and intended for outdoor environments. There are 3.5″, 4.3”, 5”, 7’’ and 10.1” displays …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Vol 24 - Issue 44

AMD GPU Exec Joins Intel

by Bob Raikes

Last week, we reported on the deal for Intel to buy AMD GPUs, and we also saw a very positive article from Dr Jon Peddie that highlighted that Raja Kudori, a veteran of AMD, …

Tags:AMD| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 24 - Issue 43