Insider

Analysis, insight, and trends for premium subscribers

subscribe

Pimax’s New Headset Boasts ’12K’ & MiniLED

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Pimax has announced a new ‘Reality 12K QLED’ headset for VR applications. The headset is built around 2 x 5.5″ miniLED QLED LCDs with 1200ppi and a claimed refresh rate of …

Tags:Virtual Reality

AOC High End Agon Monitors include a MiniLED model

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AOC has three new monitors in its Agon Pro gaming range. The 27″ AG274QXM (QuadHD @ 170 Hz), has a miniLED IPS panel (575 zones) with VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certification and …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| MiniLED| MMD (AOC Philips)

Sony VLOG monitor

Sony Brings Compact Camera Sensor to Smartphone

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Sony announced the Xperia Pro-I smartphone which has the same sized 1″-type CMOS sensor as Sony’s RX100 VII compact camera. That’s the headline, but lens limitations mean that the used surface …

Tags:Cameras| Smartphones| sony

LG Display Renews its Patent Licence Agreement with SEL

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Korea Times said that LG Display has revealed that has renewed a patent license contract with Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL), the Japanese research organisation. SEL has patents in OLEDs, LCDs …

Tags:IGZO| Patents| TFT

IIT Madras team designs perovskite-based white light emitters for LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Body Text Analyst Comment Comment (INITIALS) DD Article Source Perovskite Info IIT Madras team designs perovskite-based white light emitters for LEDs Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) have developed a perovskite-based …

Tags:Bob Raikes

SigmaSense Closes $24M Series B Funding Round

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A couple of weeks ago, touch controller developer, SigmaSense, said that it has closed a series B funding round of $24 million. The company has also added an ex-VP of Worldwide …

Tags:Investment| Semiconductors| Touch Market

Samsung still lost a year after Lee Kun-hee’s death

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald highlighted a lack of momentum from Samsung amid all the legal challenges that its top leaders have faced and after the death of Lee Kun-Hee. However, it pointed …

Tags:Samsung

Turkey Goes for Military AR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Two Turkish firms, Aselsan Bites and Aselsan Sivas, have signed deals with the country’s defence authorities to develop a “smart augmented reality glasses prototype” for the needs of the security forces …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Military & Defence

MMD Brings Designed for XBox to Smaller Sets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MMD has launched two new monitors under the Philips Momentum Designed for Xbox branding and designed for up to 120Hz operation with the Microsoft console. There are 31.5″ (329M1RV and 27″ …

Tags:Consoles| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| MMD (AOC Philips)| xBox

Panasonic To Stop TV Production in Pilsen, Czech Rep.

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Panasonic has been reported as stopping its in-house production of TVs in Pilsen, Czech Rep. The factory is expected to close by the end of March 2022 with the loss of …

Tags:Europe| Panasonic| TV Production

Gurman Likes the MacBook Pro

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman who produces the influential ‘Power On’ subscription newsletter, has summarised his view that the new MacBook Pro is a good step forward for genuinely Pro users of Apple’s …

Tags:Apple| Cameras| MiniLED| Notebooks