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NOON VR Is Awarded Honoree Recognition at the CES 2018 Innovation Awards

FXGear, an industry-leading developer and supplier of AR and VR technologies in the consumer, enterprise and entertainment markets, is pleased to ...

Haptics Role in Mobile Devices Endures

Mobile Displays, User Interface – Recent announcements by Immersion Corporation and Apple show that haptic feedback will continue to play a ...

Inflection Points in the TV and Notebook Markets

TV – Analysts are always looking for inflection points – moments when lines on charts start to move in different directions.I spotted ...

Microsoft Makes a Splash in Laptop Market

Microsoft used an event in the USA to announce its first-ever laptop, which appears to have been well-received by market watchers. ...

BOE Invests in Fourth G8.5 Fab

BOE has announced a CNY3 billion ($484.2 million) investment into a new G8.5 fab in Fuzhou, China. It will be the ...

A New Rewriteable “Paper” Technology

A team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California (Riverside, CA) lead by Wenshou Wang is developing rewriteable paper. It ...

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Phablet Cannibalise Tablets, Which Take on Notebooks

by Super User

Tablet PC demand is slowing, market observers agree (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 22), with competition from smaller display products rising. According to NPD DisplaySearch, tablet demand will only rise 2% this year, to …

Tags:Display Supply & Demand| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD DisplaySearch| Vol 21 - Issue 39| Volume 21

Intrinsyc Technologies, Stream TV Sign Strategic Agreement

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Intrinsyc Technologies and Stream TV Networks have signed a strategic agreement which will see Intrinsyc invest $1.5 million in Stream TV in the form of a secured convertible promissory note instrument bearing interest at …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Subscribers Rise but Revenues Fall in Europe

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Revenues will fall for more than 40 European TV operators between 2013 and 2020, says Digital TV Research. Having risen from $33.7 billion in 2010 to $35.8 billion in 2013, the firm expects revenues …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

AMD Names New President and CEO

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AMD has chosen COO Lisa Su as the company’s new president and CEO to replace Rory Read, who has stepped down with immediate effect. Read will support the transition in an advisory role, remaining …

Tags:AMD| Large Display Monitor| People| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Samsung Warns of 60% Fall in Profit

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Samsung says that it expects third quarter operating profit to be approximately KRW4.1 trillion ($3.8 billion), 60% lower than Q3 of last year and the fourth consecutive quarter of declines. Revenue for the period …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

CEA Says US Tech Spending to Set Record This Year

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According to the CEA, total spending on technology in the USA this Christmas season will rise 2.5% YoY, to more than $33.7 billion. An improving macroeconomic environment is increasing consumers’ willingness to shop, said …

Tags:CTA (was CEA)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

ARM and TSMC Celebrate Big.Little on FinFET

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The results of a silicon validation of ARM’s Big.Little chip architecture, showing performance improvements, have been announced. The validation used ‘Big’ Cortex-A57 and ‘Little’ Cortex-A53 processors on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET (16FF) process technology. The …

Tags:Arm| Chips| CPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Sharp Surprises With MEMS-IGZO Tablet in 2015

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Last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37), Sharp announced that it would begin mass-production of its MEMS-IGZO displays (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 22) in 2017. Much earlier than this date, however, the …

Tags:IGZO| MEMS| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

German Media Authorities Approve BSkyB Proposal

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German state media authorities in Bavaria and Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein have approved BSkyB’s proposal to buy 57.4% of Sky Deutschland, as part of its Sky Europe plans. The approval follows a recent general meeting …

Tags:Broadcasters| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Sky| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Triumph Looks for Partners

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Triumph is a Czech company, based in Prague, that develops touch systems for business meetings and education. The company currently sells its products in the EU, in Africa and in the US and was …

Tags:Gitex 2014| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Touch Displays| Vol 21 - Issue 41

Microsoft Confident of ‘Real World’ Windows Feedback

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One million people are testing Windows 10 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 39), according to Microsoft. About 65% of these have installed the OS on a PC, while 35% have it on a virtual …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21| Windows

Sling Media and ViXS Downconvert for Multiple Streams

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Sling Media and ViXS Systems have worked together on a new network transcoder, which uses Sling technology and a ViXS XCode 5190 chipset. The device can perform 2560 x 1440 to 1280 x 720 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| Transcoders| ViXS| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21