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Samsung and Natural Cycles Partner To Bring Advanced Temperature-Based Cycle Tracking to Galaxy Watch5 Series

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung Electronics and Natural Cycles today announced a partnership to bring advanced temperature-based menstrual cycle tracking capabilities to the Galaxy Watch5 series — the first time Natural Cycles’ ground-breaking algorithm has been adapted for a smartwatch. This latest partnership …

Tags:Galaxy Watch5| Samsung| Smartwatches

Samsung to Borrow $16 Billion From SDC for Investment

by Omid Rahmat

Samsung Electronics has made a deal with Samsung Display Co. (SDC) to give it a loan of 20 trillion won ($16 billion) at an interest rate of 4.6%, according to Bloomberg. Samsung had already …

Tags:Samsung| SDC

MediaTek’s Helio G36 for Entry Level Smartphone Gaming

by Omid Rahmat

It seems like the company was promoting its wares for the Indian market by announcing to the local press the Helio G36. The chipset is targeted at the affordable smartphone market. The G Series …

Tags:G Series| Game Playing| Mediatek| Smartphones

A Generational Rejection of Boomer TVs

by Omid Rahmat

The people who make TVs are, for the most part, boomers. The people who watch TV are not. Yet, it is the boomers who represent the majority of people who want non-boomers buying TVs. …

Tags:Market Data| Samba TV| Smartphones| Streaming Video| TVs (TV Sets)

How Rambus is Driving MIPI Performance for Mobil Displays

by Omid Rahmat

The continuing expansion of display performance requirements in mobile applications demands that a hybrid of software and hardware solutions come together to address the bandwidth requirements. Rambus is offering a platform to get to …

ByteDance May Have a Thing to Say About VR With Pico

by Omid Rahmat

TikTok’s parent comapny, China’s ByteDance, owns a VR headset company, Pico, and despite the pressures that bear down on the company from western regulators, it is not backing away from a fight with Meta …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| meta| Pico| VR

SK Hynix and LG Displays to Make MicroOLEDs for Meta

by Omid Rahmat

The social media giant will be designing the chips to be manufactured as part of its ongoing investment in the mixed reality displays. The expected timing for all this is 2025 to 2026. According …

SMIC Sees Big Price Drops in ICs for Displays

by Omid Rahmat

The Chinese chipmaker’s recent earnings call said that prices for ICS used in displays and flash memory chips in smartphones have dropped by 30% but that it would be continuing to invest in capital …

Tags:Manufacturing| SMIC

India’s Smartwatch Market Grew 151.3%

by Omid Rahmat

Sales of smartwatches in India went from 12.22 million units in 2021 to 30.72 million units in 2022, according to IDC Research. The data tracks smartwatches inclusive of basic and advanced. Smartwatch ASPs continue …

Samsung’s BOM Win in Mobile Hints at High End Dominance

by Omid Rahmat

The Pixel 7 Pro’s bill of materials (BOM) is about 50% Samsung and Oppo’s new foldable phone uses Samsung Displays. In both cases, Samsung’s winning the high-end of the Android phone market with its …

DCI Publishes CTP Version 1.3.3

by Omid Rahmat

The latest version of the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) compliance testing is provisioning direct-view screens, and laser-illuminated projectors as having passed the Compliance Test Plan (CTP) in this current iteration. DCI is a joint …

Tags:DCI Compliance

When Push Becomes Shove, Display Manufacturing Will Go China’s Way

by Omid Rahmat

The US Congress is trying to figure out how to put a stop to the flow of goods and capital to China from the tech sector. Pressure has been applied to allies like South …