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Is Apple Reducing the Role of Industrial Design?

by Omid Rahmat

Bloomberg is reporting on changes at Apple’s with the departure of Evans Hankey, the company’s VP of industrial design, who will not be replaced. Instead, the company’s core group of about 20 industrial designers …

Tags:Apple| Manufacturing

Chipmaking Equipment: Putting the Squeeze on China

by Omid Rahmat

The deal is deemed crucial to recent US efforts to restrict chip manufacturing and development in China. This is because the global market for chipmaking equipment is dominated by US company Applied Materials, Dutch …

Tags:Applied Materials| ASML| Manufacturing| Tokyo Electron

After NAB Asking the FCC to Recommit to ATSC 3.0, What Next?

by Omid Rahmat

Characterizing the transition as “stalled,” the association asked the FCC last week to recommit itself to promoting the standard to the public and take steps to advance the development of peripherals that consumers could use to …

Tags:ATSC 3.0

TriLite’s Trixel 3 Projection Display Wins 2023 Prism Award

by Omid Rahmat

Peter Weigand, CEO at TriLite, said: “We’re delighted to be honored by SPIE, with this recognition of Trixel 3 as a breakthrough innovation for AR displays. Our latest product evolution, Trixel 3, sets a …

Tags:Augmented Reality| projector| Trilite| Trixel

Osram Gets the Better of Apple Adopting MicroLEDs

by Omid Rahmat

Whether Micro LED is incorporated into smartwatches, AR headsets, or smartphones, two major factors will determine the market competitiveness of this technology. The first factor involves lowering the costs of Micro LED chips. A …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| MicroLED| Osram| TrendForce

Tech Spending in ME, Turkey, and Africa Close to $100 Billion in 2023

by Omid Rahmat

Overall spending on information and communications technology (ICT) across the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) will top $233.8 billion this year, an increase of 3.9% over 2022. That’s according to the latest predictions …

Tags:Macroeconomics| MEA (Middle East & Africa)

Barco’s Recovery Continues

by Omid Rahmat

Barco’s NT series goes beyond expectations for LED walls, with “sharp, light and clever” solutions Because an LED video wall is only as good as its image processing, Barco has developed Infinipix Gen2. This powerful …

Tags:Barco| ISE 2023

The 2 Billion User Sweet Spot

by Omid Rahmat

Apple, Alphabet (nee Google), and Amazon all reported their financials as the reporting season reaches its peak. Frankly, you can pore over the endless chatter about the results, but this paragraph is about all …

Tags:Alphabet| Amazon| Apple| Financial Data

FTC Denied in VR Merger Case with Meta

by Omid Rahmat

On July 25, 2022, Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta”) filed a petition to recuse Chair Lina M.Khan from participating in any decision concerning the Commission’s review of Meta’sproposed merger with Within Unlimited, Inc (“Within”). Meta …

Tags:meta| oculus| VR

Meta’s Reality Labs Lost $13.7 Billion in 2022

by Omid Rahmat

The company’s 2022 results has gotten the financial analyst tribe back on board especially as Mark Zuckerberg touted 2023 as the “year of efficiency.” Nevertheless the Meta Reality portion of the company continues to …

Tags:Financial Data| meta| Oculus VR