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Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim to Outclass Top-End PCs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg reports that Apple wants to push on with its own processors and is developing new chips that are intended to significantly outperform high end Intel-based systems. The new chips, expected …

Tags:Apple| Arm| CPUs| GPUs

DSCC’s Latest Display Capacity Forecast Shows LCD Capacity to Remain Tight

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC upgraded its forecast for industry capacity by 3% in 2025 as a number of OLED fabs may arrive a bit quicker than previously expected. LCD TVs continue to dominate capacity, …

Tags:Forecasts| Large LCD Supply| Market Data| OLED Fabs

Japanese Looking for Safer Motorbikes – with Smart Helmets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In an article about the development of the motorcycle market in Japan, Nikkei reported on information being shown in ‘smart helmets’. The Nikkei also reports that Robert Bosch has a distance …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Japan

Will MSG Sphere Come to London?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say I missed the news when it was first announced in 2018, but it seems that the Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) is trying to build ‘the MSG Sphere’ with “the largest …

Tags:LED| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Outdoor Displays

Mercedes Korea Adds A/R to Navigation System

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reported on the latest Mercedes E Class, said to be the best selling imported car in Korea, and highlighted that it has a new Augmented Reality navigation system. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Automotive| Korea

Analyst Points to Big MiniLED Push by Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that as part of Apple’s miniLED push, the company will release a pair of new MacBook Pro models in 2021 with the technology — and a …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| Notebooks

Links for the Week

by Bob Raikes

Here are some links for the week that might be interesting, but do not need much of a comment Global semiconductor sales grow in October, says SIA Smartphone OLED prices to drop from oversupply: …

Vewd Extends Hybrid TV Leadership with BML and Hybridcast

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vewd said that it has added support to its software stack for the Japanese BML and Hybridcast hybrid TV standards. That is on topic of existing support for HbbTV and ATSC3.0 …

Tags:Broadcast| Japan| OTT Video| TVs (TV Sets)

Warranty Week on High Tech

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Warranty Week did its annual round-up of warranty provision and finance in the US high-tech industries. The blog highlights the differences between 2020 and the pattern in 2008/9 and comes to …

Tags:Apple| warranty

Royole Returns With A Better Folding Phone

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge got hold of the FlexPai 2 that Royole released recently in China (Watch a demo of Royole’s new folding phone, on sale today for roughly $1,500) the blog had …

Tags:China| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| OLEDs

ETRI/KBS Trial Demonstrates Viability of 8K OTA Delivery Via ATSC 3.0

by Bob Raikes

What They Say TV Technology reports that in October, a trial of over-the-air 8K TV took place and used MIMO technology to deliver 113Mbps. The article said that new STBs would need to be …

Tags:ATSC| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

No New Apps for Oculus Go

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Protocol newsletter highlighted that Facebook will shut down new app submissions for Oculus Go, the $200 standalone VR headset first introduced in May 2018. It will support Gear VR and …

Tags:Oculus VR| Virtual Reality