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iBT Claims High Growth

by Bob Raikes

iBoardTouch (iBT) was showing its full range of 65″ to 98″ interactive displays – the 75″ and 98″ UltraHD models having recently been released. Unusually, the company has a high end 70″ procap system …

Hansol Integrates EMR in One Cable Solution

by Bob Raikes

Hansol was a name we often featured back in the days when the company was in the mainstream monitor business, but withdrew from that market to focus on special displays for games machines etc. …

Dell Promoting New Touch LFD

by Bob Raikes

Dell was in the Intel area at the show with its new C7017T which is the company’s first 70″ LCD product (and looks like a version of the 70″ pre-production display that we spotted …

Promethean Enjoying New Ownership

by Bob Raikes

Promethean World has had an eventful year, having been acquired by NetDragon of China in the Autumn and with technology and product developments, too, during the year since we last met at BETT (Takeover …

BETT Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Albion supplies Apple solutions to the UK education market, as well as training. We asked about the competition from Google’s Chromebooks – which are significantly cheaper – and were told that Apple’s iPads etc …

Sahara Pushing to Keep Up with Demand

by Bob Raikes

Sahara was at the show with its CleverTouch IMDs which have been so successful in the UK market. There are new bezels and upgrades to the core systems to allow the latest Android version …

VividTouch from Steljes Makes a Big Impact

by Bob Raikes

It was hard to miss the big LED sign for “VividTouch” that was around the entrance to BETT. The first surprise came, really, when we got to the booth and found it populated by …

An Inflection Point for Large Touch Displays?

by Bob Raikes

We’ve finally got to the end of our CES report. It highlights how much of CES is being taken over by the automotive field and how much concentration there was on AR and VR. …

Cisco & MaxLinear In SkyQ

by Bob Raikes

It has been confirmed that the new SkyQ UltraHD STB will be based around MediaHighway middleware from Cisco and will include a MaxLinear MxL5x2 satellite receiver and EN5520 Channel Stacking IC. The receiver can …

Arris Completes Pace Acquisition

by Bob Raikes

In the flood of news at CES it looks as though the news that Arris has completed its acquisition of STB maker Pace of the UK for £1.4 billion slipped by us. Arris acquired …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Plessey Looking at Cubic GaN for Efficient Green LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Plessey, Anvil Semiconductors and the University of Cambridge said that they are working together to fabricate high efficiency LEDs in cubic GaN grown on Anvil’s 3C-SiC / Si substrates. The group said that Cubic …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LED| Lighting| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 02

Vehicular Technology at CES

by Bob Raikes

Automotive technology is becoming a steadily larger and more important component of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Ford is leading the way in terms of the number of vehicles exhibited, but several other …

Tags:Automotive| CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 02