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Hiperwall Demonstrates Latest Software

Pixel Processing & Control – At the NEC Showcase in New York on October 23rd, NEC partner Hiperwall Inc. (Irvine, CA) ...

Asustek Refocusses Tablet Operations

As highlighted in the Display Daily article, Asustek, Gigabyte Re-structuring”, Asustek is looking to get out of the tablet business by ...

Samsung Electronics CEO Joins SDC

Kwon Oh-hyun, current CEO of Samsung Electronics, will double his role and take on the position of CEO of Samsung Display ...

Wearables Are ‘Ripe for Growth’

Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PwC), after surveying 1,000 US adults, has said that the wearable device market is ‘ripe for growth’. 20% of ...

Sharp’s POS System Uses Dual Flush Displays

Sharp Europe has developed a new point-of-sale terminal, with a 15″ colour LCD display. The RZ-X850F is intended to be a ...

TCL Corporation to Restructure its Businesses

TCL Corporation says it is to  restructure its operations into 11 entities, deemed the “7 plus 3 plus 1 structure”, with seven ...

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CES Reaches Record Numbers

by Vanessa Browning

CES 2015 ended with record numbers in all areas, according to organiser the Consumer Electronics Association. President Gary Shapiro said that this year’s show “exceeded all [of] our expectations”. The number of visitors was …

Tags:CES 2015| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

New Price Point Achieved for Lumia Series

by Vanessa Browning

Microsoft showed off a low-cost feature phone at CES (since 2013, the company has made its biggest announcements at its own events), and has now revealed two affordable Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones: the Lumia …

Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 04| Windows

Micromax Canvas Hue smartphone

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 3

by Tom Allen

Consumers in India, who might struggle to afford Samsung’s AMOLED smartphones, are now being offered a lower-cost option in the form of Micromax‘s Canvas Hue. The 5″ device has an AMOLED display (1280 x 720), …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Motorola| Nintendo| Notebooks| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Samsung Made Offer for Blackberry, Says Reuters

by Vanessa Browning

According to Reuters, Samsung is seeking to buy Blackberry to acquire the company’s patent portfolio. Blackberry was looking to sell in 2013 (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 31). Several rumours of interested parties – …

Tags:BlackBerry| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Sony Mulling Sale of Loss-Making Businesses

by Helen Vince

Sony is reported to be considering a restructuring of its business which could see the loss-making smartphone and TV businesses being sold off. According to a Reuters report, CEO Kazuo Hirai and his senior …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Reorganisation & Restructuring| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Gartner Lowers 2015 Semiconductor Growth Forecast

by Tom Allen

Worldwide semiconductor revenue will reach $358 billion this year: a 5.4% YoY increase, says Gartner, which is lower than the forecast made in Q4’14 of 5.8% growth. Application-specific standard products (ASSPs) in smartphones, as well as …

Tags:Gartner| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductor Market| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Efun Expects Rising Shipments on TV Replacements

by Tom Allen

Optical film maker Efun expects its shipments to South Korea and Japanese LCD TV makers to rise ‘significantly’ this year. Demand will be driven by rising sales of UltraHD TVs and replacements of older …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Intel Updates Convertible Reference Design

by Tom Allen

Intel has expanded the scope of its $350 – $400 convertible reference designs to cover a new size segment: 12.5″. Additionally, the reference design has been updated to adopt the new 14nm fifth-generation Broadwell-based …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Following the 4K Television Ecosystem

by Phillip Wright

After the 2015 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, it is clear that market movement toward 4k (UHD) television is continuing to advance. The 4k sets on view at …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD (4KTV)| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 03

DisplayPort and DisplayStream Compression are Bullish

by Bob Raikes

The display shows the pixels that have been changed by 3X DSC compression, magnified by 16. At 1X the display was almost blank!We spent some time with the VESA DisplayPort group and there were …

Tags:CES 2015| Display Stream (DSC)| DisplayPort| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| VESA| Vol 22 - Issue 03

DisplayLink Pushes UltraHD over USB

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink showed graphics over USB using an Android phoneDisplayLink was in a positive mood. The company’s “graphics over USB” technology has been widely adopted by PC vendors who are able to use the technology …

Tags:CES 2015| DisplayLink| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| USB| Vol 22 - Issue 03