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Panel Mix Shifts at Sharp

Sharp has cut LCD panel production for smartphones and tablets, due to weak sales to Chinese makers, sources have told The ...

Nvidia and VMware Bring Workstations to Chromebooks

Google and VMware are working with Nvidia to bring workstation-level graphics to Chromebooks. VMware’s Blast software and Nvidia’s Grid (Display Monitor ...

OSU Produces Cheap, Non-Toxic QDs

Advances in quantum dot (QD) manufacturing, by Oregon State University, may lead to a new generation of LED lighting. Researchers on ...

LG Drops OLED TV Prices for Holiday

LG has reduced the pricing of its entry level OLED TVs in the US, with the 55″ OLED55B6P now $1,997 and ...

Huawei Prepares European Rollout

Huawei’s stand had an unfinished look about it – explained, we heard, by the ornate false ceiling collapsing the day before ...

Panel Supply Delays iPad Pro

The oft-rumoured 12.9″ iPad Pro (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 45) has apparently been delayed again. According to Bloomberg’s sources, production ...

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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

Emagin Receives $6.8 Million in R&D Contracts

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Emagin says it has been awarded three new R&D contracts totalling $6.8 million. One of the three new contracts is a $1.1 million contract over 15 months to further enhance the full colour brightness …

Tags:AMOLED| eMagin| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Smartphones Drive MEA Handsets to Record Sales

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A new record was set for the MEA tablet handset market in Q2 this year, rising 27% YoY to 64 million units. IDC says that most growth came from smartphones, which are rapidly gaining …

Tags:MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

AMD Result 21/10/2014

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reported its third quarter results, posting a net profit of $17 million on turnover of $1.43 billion, which compares with a net profit of $48 million on turnover of …

Tags:AMD| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

TV Vendors More Than Double UltraHD Target

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Supply chain sources have said that TV vendors are aiming to ship 34 million UltraHD TVs next year – up 120% from 2014. The largest market will be China (no surprises there – TA) …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| TV Production| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Verizon Passes 5.5 Million Video Subs

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114,000 new FiOS video customers joined Verizon in Q3’14, boosting the company’s total video subscribers to 5.5 million: a 7% YoY increase. Penetration was 35.5%, compared to 34.9% last year.

Tags:Cable| Large Display Monitor| Verizon| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21