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Sharp & Hisense

by Bob Raikes

Sharp and Hisense continue their litigation in the US. There was a legal argument that Sharp wanted to be sent back to a Californian State Court, but the federal court decided that it should …

Tags:Hisense| Large Display Monitor| Litigation| sharp| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 40

Samsung Adds Mounts for Rugged Tablet

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has introduced a rugged tablet for industrial environments, the Galaxy Tab Active2. Suk-Jea Hahn, Executive VP of Samsung Electronics’ Global Mobile B2B Team said: “The Samsung Galaxy Tab Active2 was built based on …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Rugged Displays| Samsung| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Android Oreo has Colour Profile Support

by Bob Raikes

Android 8.0 (Oreo) has been released on the Pixel 2 (and will come on other devices). There has been a big change ‘behind the scenes’ to the architecture to use the same version across …

Tags:Android| Colour Management & Processing| Mobile Display Monitor| Operating Systems| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Surface Book 2 Ups the Ante on Performance

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has launched the latest version of its Surface range, the Book 2. The new device uses the latest 8th Generation Intel Core processor and the notebooks now include Nvidia eForce GTX 1050 and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Notebooks| Vol 24 - Issue 39

ProTec Can Transfer MicroLEDs Quickly

by Bob Raikes

Protec Carrier Systems GmbH of Siegen, Germany put out a press release about its electrostatic chuck technology which can be used for MicroLED carriage and placing, so we contacted the firm and had a …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Production Equipment| Vol 24 - Issue 41

Samsung Completes Qualification of 8nm LPP Process

by Bob Raikes

Samsung said that it has now fully qualified its 8-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, called 8LPP (Low Power Plus), three months ahead of its plan. The process is said to have 10% lower power …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 39

New Technologies Will Drive ICT Spending

by Bob Raikes

IDC said that it expects spending on ICT to grow at twice the rate of GDP because of increase in spending on the IoT, robotics, AR & VR and cognitive computing and AI. Total …

Tags:Forecasts| ICT| IDC| Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Luna Display Set for iMac Second Screen

by Bob Raikes

Luna Display is a Kickstarter project to develop a dongle for Apple Macs that allows an iPad to be used as a secondary display. The dongle can go in a USB Type-C or DisplayPort …

Tags:Apple| iPad| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| Vol 24 - Issue 39

ZTE Adds Dual Screen Phone

by Bob Raikes

ZTE has launched an unusual device, the Axon M which has dual 5.2″ IPS LCDs, each with FullHD, making an overall 6.9″ 1920 x 2160 resolution display. The screens are protected by Gorilla Glass …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 39| ZTE

Razer Updates Blade Stealth Laptop And Core V2 GPU Box

by Bob Raikes

Razer announced the new Blade Stealth laptop featuring Intel’s latest 8th generation quad-core processor and the Razer Core V2 external graphics enclosure. Razer Blade Stealth laptop featuring Intel’s latest 8th generation quad-core processor The …

Tags:External GPU (eGPU)| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Notebooks| Razer| Vol 24 - Issue 39

Misco UK Fails

by Bob Raikes

UK distributor, Misco, has gone into administration (equivalent of the US Chapter 11) after a late attempt to sell the company to PCM of the US failed. The company was the subject of a …

Tags:Distribution| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 39

AOC FreeSync Monitor Does Well in Review

by Bob Raikes

AOC introduced the AG251FZ to the market in the Spring. The monitor has 240Hz refresh, for gaming, and has a TN panel. Now, Tom’s Hardware has published a very positive review of the monitor, …

Tags:Back Panel| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| Vol 24 - Issue 39