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Cambrios Focusing on AIOs – and Winning!

by Bob Raikes

Cambrios, which makes silver nanowire materials for procap touch and other applications, was in the Westgate hotel. The company has found a segment of the market, All-in-one (AIO) PCs, that need the performance of …

Tags:Cambrios| CES 2016| ITO Replacement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Silver Nanowire| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Osram Promotes Projector LEDs – Quiet on QDs

by Bob Raikes

We have had a couple of interesting news announcements from Osram in recent weeks. The first was a new LED that was announced a couple of weeks ago that puts a red phosphor layer …

Tags:CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| LED| LED Projectors| Mobile Display Monitor| Osram| Vol 23 - Issue 02

The Interest is in the Details at CES

by Bob Raikes

We’ve had a number of “balls in the air” this week as we have been pressing on with our CES report while trying to catch up on the news for the last couple of …

Tags:CES 2016| Consumer Electronics Industry| Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 01

OLEDs Reach an Inflection Point at CES

by Bob Raikes

One of the jobs that we commentators on the technology world have to do is to watch for inflection points – those moments in time when things change and are not the same again …

Tags:CES 2016| Desktop Monitors| Notebooks| OLEDs| Vol 23 - Issue 01

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Sony UK Holds Technology Days

by Bob Raikes

Sony Professional in the UK is holding technology training on 20th and 21st January at Pinewood Studios. The course will have four half day sessions and cover 4K and HDR Production, the use of …

Tags:Back Panel| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| UltraHD| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Intel Keynote Highlights Curie

by Bob Raikes

Krazanich was very relaxed before his keynote Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel gave the main CES keynote this year. When we arrived, on the seat was a wristband (the Pixmob) that had LEDs in …

Tags:CES 2016| Intel| Internet of Things IOT| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 02| Wearables

TCL appoints new General Manager for Europe

by Bob Raikes

TCL Multimedia has appointed Alain Pakiry, previously with Ubisoft, Guillemot, TomTom and MyFox before joining TCL Communication Europe in May 2015.

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| TCL| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Samsung to Boost OLED Production

by Bob Raikes

The ET Times of Korea has reported that Samsung will invest $7.4 billion in new OLED production capacity to support a switch by Apple from LTPS to flexible OLEDs. The paper said that the …

Tags:AMOLED| Investment| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Google Starts New VR Group

by Bob Raikes

Google has created a VR computing division and has appointed Clay Bavor, previously Product Manager of apps including Gmail, Google Drive and Google Docs, to run it. Google has already set up “Jump”, which …

Tags:Google| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Recruitment & Appointments| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 01

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ViXS Gets More Funding

by Bob Raikes

Video SoC-maker, ViXS said that it has completed two private placings to provide C$6.9 million ($4.8m) that will be used to strengthen the company’s balance sheet. Analyst Comment ViXS has been through a lot …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| ViXS| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Pixelworks Adds VueMagic Dongle

by Bob Raikes

Pixelworks was in the Westgate hotel, in a suite. The first product that we looked at was a dongle that supports the company’s VueMagic Media Pro technology when connected to the HDMI port of …

Tags:CES 2016| Collaboration| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pixelworks| Streaming Dongles| Vol 23 - Issue 02

New DisplayLink Chip Supports Dual UltraHD Displays at 60P

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink was showing its DL-6950 chip which can support dual displays with UltraHD resolution and 60fps using the DisplayPort link in USB Type C. The company can also support that performance over HDMI 2.0 …

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