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Qualcomm Tries to Stop Apple Imports

by Bob Raikes

In its dispute with Apple, Qualcomm has asked that action is taken in the form of a Limited Exclusion Order (LEO) that would stop Apple importing iPhones into the US. Apple responded by continuing …

Lumileds Leaves the Philips Nest

by Bob Raikes

Lumileds is now officially independent from Royal Philips, 80.1% of the company having been bought by Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm. (Philips To Sell Lumileds to Private Equity) The firm plans to …

Entatech Creditors to Get Back Two Thirds

by Bob Raikes

We recently reported that UK distributor, Entatech, run by display industry veteran, Dave Stevinson, had gone into liquidation. It now seems that the unsecured creditors may get back as much as two thirds of …

Videophone Screen Shown on Head-up Display

by Bob Raikes

The Taiwan Automotive Research Consortium (TARC) has developed a full-colour HUD that can show an image from a connected device such as a smartphone. The project is a development effort and no decision has …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 24 - Issue 25

LETI Exhibition Features Health, LED and MicroOLED

by Bob Raikes

We had a whistle stop tour around the exhibition area at Minatec and we spent most time with Aledia. We wrote this up in a recent Display Daily (Aledia Uses Nanowires for MicroLEDs) We …

08 Leti Developing Microdisplays Using GaN Hybrid

by Bob Raikes

We met up with François Templier of Leti who is working on a new GaN-based hybrid microdisplay. He presented an invited paper at the recent SID that covered the topic and we had planned …

07 Intel Looks to “Computing Dust”

by Bob Raikes

The final keynote speaker was Mike Mayberry of Intel who looks after Intel Labs and controls Intel’s spending on university research Chip development is “Easy to say, but hard to do” and Intel’s priorities …

06 Global Foundries Looking to FDSOI

by Bob Raikes

A Mutricy is from Global Foundries and he said that his company is still working on FinFET technology for applications that need a lot of computing. Devices are converging towards very low cost and …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Leti Days 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Industry| Vol 24 - Issue 25

05 Qualcomm Looks to 5G

by Bob Raikes

Rajesh Pankesh is head of R&D at Qualcomm, which makes more than 800 million chips per year as the largest fabless chip company. He gave the first of the end of day keynotes. What …

LETI & Fraunhofer Announce Collaboration

by Bob Raikes

Fraunhofer’s Hubert Lakner and LETI’s Marie-Noelle Semeria held a press conference to announce the collaboration between the two institutions. Semeria said that microelectronics is key for the european industry. The industry used to be …

04 European Commission Works With Leti

by Bob Raikes

The final speaker was Max Lemke of the European Commission which works with LETI in a number of areas. Lemke is head of the Ulit Technologies & Systems for Digitising Industry. He first summarised …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Leti Days 2017| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 25

03 Health Needs to Exploit Smartphones

by Bob Raikes

Horiba is a specialist in health care technology and Dr Jai Hakhu said that the company is 70 years old and based in Kyoto, Japan, but with more than 50% of its staff outside …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Leti Days 2017| Medical| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 25