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Sky Deutschland’s Das Boot sets sail in 8K and Dolby Atmos

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The third season of Sky Deutschland’s Das Boot will be the first international series to be filmed in 8K and Dolby Atmos. The show’s previous seasons were both shot in 4K …

Tags:Dolby Atmos| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

AMD acquiring Xilinx in $35B semiconductor mega-deal

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The chip industry consolidation dance continued as AMD has entered into an agreement to buy Xilinx for $35 billion, giving the company access to a broad set of specialized workloads. AMD …

Tags:AMD| Mergers & Acquisitions| Semiconductor Industry

Avantama qualifies its green pQD display film

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Avantama of Switzerland, a developer of quantum dots, has told Perovskite-Info that it has had its green perovskite material qualified for production use. What We Think I thought this was a …

Tags:Perovskite| Quantum Dots| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Video leak shows off TCL’s rollable smartphone screen tech

by Bob Raikes

What They Say GizChina spotted a video showing a rollable OLED prototype from TCL that rolls out from 4.5″ to 6.7″ and is said to be able to survive 200K operations. What We Think …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones| TCL

Samsung Display wins US license to supply panels to Huawei

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung Display has confirmed that it has received a licence from the US government to allow the supply of chips to Huawei. In September, the Nikkei reports, Intel and AMD said …

Tags:Display Drivers| Huawei| Samsung Display| USA

Inconsistent HDR format support in PS5 & Xbox Series X

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Flatpanelshd reports that there is uncertainty about HDR support in the XBox Series X and PS5. Xbox Series X will support HDR10+. Microsoft will also support Dolby Vision for streaming and …

Tags:Consoles| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range

iFixit Tears Down iPhone 12

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit had a close look at the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro in one of its teardowns. They achieved the same repairability score of 6/10 and many components are interchangeable. The …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Teardowns