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Broadcom Wants to Buy Qualcomm

Broadcom has made an unsolicited bid to buy Qualcomm for a price of $60 per share, plus $10 in Broadcom stock, ...

AUO, Innolux Dismiss Merger Rumours

AU Optronics (AUO) and Innolux have dismissed further rumours that the two companies are considering merging, citing differences in market strategy, ...

Pericom has USB Type-C for Alt Mode

Pericom has developed a USB Type-C support chip (the PI3USB30532) with alternate mode switching to support DisplayPort V1.2. There is a ...

University Re-Polarises Light for More Efficient LCDs

A polarising filter that lets more light pass through has been developed by engineers at the University of Utah. It could ...

YouTube Living Room Viewing is Up 70%

YouTube living room viewing is up 70% year-on-year, according to Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. The video giant’s live television service Youtube ...

ITRI Reports Breakthrough in OLED Lifetime

Taiwan-based ITRI has reported the development of a new OLED device architecture that significantly increases the lifetime of RGB OLED displays. ...

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Fox Sports Plans UHD College Football

by Bob Raikes

Fox Sports in the US plans to produce one college football game per week in UltraHD (a total of 13 games) starting on 2nd September and featuring the Maryland Terrapins versus the Texas Longhorns. …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| UltraHD| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 32

MStar Adopts Dolby MS12 v2 for Atmos Support

by Bob Raikes

Dolby Labs and MStar said that MStar has made a new Dolby Multistream Decoder MS12 chip that can provide TV makers with a single-package solution for decoding premium audio content worldwide — broadcast, file-based, …

Tags:Chips| Dolby Atmos| Large Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 24 - Issue 32

RTS Tests UHD and HDR at Montreux Jazz Festival

by Andrew Fenn

Swiss broadcaster Radio Télévision Suisse took the opportunity to test out ultra high-definition and HDR live recording and post-production at this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival, using the Leader LV5490. Kevin Salvidge, Leader’s European Regional …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Indian Tablet Market Stable Thanks To Commercial Growth

by Yvette Raikes

Although consumer tablet buying fell 13.8% QoQ and 26.8% YoY in Q2, due to the introduction of the Goods and Service Tax, healthy growth in the commercial sector contributed to a 2.9% rise to …

Tags:India| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 24 - Issue 33

Global Smartphone YoY Growth

Phablet Sales Contribute to Smartphone Growth

by Yvette Raikes

Global smartphone shipments will grow until 2021, according to IDC’s updated forecast. 1.47 billion were sold in 2016 and this is expected to rise to 1.7 billion in 2021, with the researcher predicting a …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 24 - Issue 32

An OLED-Based Flexible Clothing Display is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

A research team led by Kyung Cheol Choi at the Electric and Electronic Engineering Department within the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, Korea) is developing an OLED technology that is hoped …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Apple Considering Means to Provide Privacy to Display Viewing

by Arthur Berman

Years ago, when LCDs were first introduced into commercial products, the display typically had a narrow angle of view. One aspect of this seeming limitation could actually be thought of as a feature. A …

Tags:LCD displays| Privacy| Vol 24 - Issue 33

VR @ ISTE 2017: In the Exhibit Hall

by Len Scrogan

In many ways, the virtual reality exhibitors at the ISTE 2017 expo hall reminded me of the sights, sounds and drama of a major multi-match boxing event. (The ISTE 2017 educational technology conference held …

Tags:Education| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 32

Worldwide Wearables Market Grows 10.3% in Second Quarter

by Alan Spencer

According to the IDC Wearables Tracker, the worldwide wearables market again has shown positive growth as shipments grew 10.3% in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the same quarter in 2016. Shipments reached …

Tags:IDC| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 32| Wearables

Glass-Free Flexible Plastic E-Paper Displays

by Damir Lokas

Westerham, Kent, UK. 30th August 2017 – Plastic Logic Flexible displays are now available from Review Display Systems. Plastic Logic manufactures flexible, glass-free electrophoretic active matrix displays. Plastic Logic manufactures flexible, glass-free electrophoretic active …

Flexible Plastic E-Paper Displays Available

by Bob Raikes

Flexible, glass-free electrophoretic active matrix displays fromPlastic Logic are now available from Review Display Systems. Plastic Logic manufactures. Standard sizes are available from 1.1” to 10.7” (1280×960) with up to 16 grey scales.

Tags:Distribution| E Ink| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 32