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AMD Acquires Hialgo

by Tom Allen

AMD has acquired California-based HiAlgo, a software company that develops PC gaming technologies. For example, HiAlgo has built software to help raise GPU efficiency, and to improve the gaming experience without overclocking. AMD says …

Tags:AMD| Game Playing| GPUs| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 29

OLED Will Overtake LCD by 2020

by Tom Allen

While LCD technology has been dominant in mobile phones for more than 15 years, IHS expects OLEDs to become dominant in smartphones in 2020. AMOLED displays with LTPS backplanes will represent 36% of all …

AV Stumpfl and Barco Used in 16k x 16k Mapping

by Tom Allen

F1 Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologien und Managementberatung GmbH (F1) worked with VIOSO GmbH to install 15 Wings VIOSO servers and 15 AV Stumpfl Wings VIOSO software packages in Das Schloss, a shopping centre in Berlin. …

Meizu Combines Driving on Single Chip

by Tom Allen

Meizu has introduced a new MX-series smartphone, with a powerful camera sensor, in China. The MX6 uses Sony’s Exmor RSIMX 386 sensor in its rear camera. This sensor has 1.25µm pixels and a customised …

Tags:China| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 29

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 29

by Tom Allen

Andromium‘s Superbook (LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 19) – the laptop ‘shell’ powered by a smartphone – is now live on Kickstarter. Prices start at $85. It was funded within 10 minutes, …

Notebook Rebound Boosted EMEA PC Shipments

by Tom Allen

PC shipments in EMEA were slightly above expectations in Q2’16, says IDC, at 16.1 million units shipped – although this still represented a 4.7% YoY fall. Western Europe stabilised at -0.8%, while CEE and …

Sony Goes Beyond Premium

by Tom Allen

Sony has announced a new series of premium LCD TVs known as XBR-Z: these are positioned above the company’s current flagship models in the X series, such as the X930D. The focus for these …

Canon Adds New Tech to XEED Series

by Tom Allen

Canon’s newest XEED-brand LCoS projector is a short-throw model for professional users, called the 4K501ST. Designed as an update to the 4K500ST (Canon Claims World’s Lightest DCI Projector), the new projector features HDMI 2.0 …

Ray Tracing Just Became Faster, Easier and Less Complex

by Tom Allen

A new technique, developed by computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has increased the speed of rendering some particularly tricky graphics. Rendering specular highlights, or glints (such as reflections from uneven …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| ray tracing| Software| Vol 23 - Issue 29

ICDM Cancels IMID Meeting

by Tom Allen

The SID’s International Committee on Display Metrology (ICDM) was considering hosting a meeting on the 23rd and 24th August at IMID 2016 in Korea. However, it has decided that there is no support and …

OTOY/Imagination Tech Lower Ray Tracing Power Draw

by Tom Allen

Imagination Technologies has agreed a partnership with OTOY, a company specialising in graphics processing in the cloud. Imagination will integrate support for its PowerVR ray tracing technology into OTOY’s upcoming OctaneRender4 rendering engine, for …

Innolux to Produce Flexible Sensors

by Tom Allen

Innolux and Next Biometrics (of Norway) have announced that they are investing in establishing mass-production capacity for a new flexible fingerprint sensor technology. Next already uses Innolux’s factories to produce rigid sensors. It now …

Tags:biometrics| Fingerprint Recognition| Innolux| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 29