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Acer Reports September Consolidated Revenues of NT$29.51 Billion, Record High in 72 Months

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Acer reported that its revenues for September at NT$29.51 billion ($1.024 billion), the highest for six years and up 27.3% YoY. Year-on-year revenue growth for Pan America was up by 70.7% …

Tags:Acer| Chromebooks| Financial Data

Reuters Presents HP’s Future Vision for VR (Free!)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters is holding a free webinar on the topic of the Future of VR with HP. Speakers are: Elias Stephan, Head of Global Virtual Reality Business Development, HP Jeff Marshall, CEO, …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality

Analysts Differ on PC Market Growth & Shares

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Gartner & IDC joined Canalys in putting out their Q3 PC results. (Lenovo, HP, and Dell led PCs to 10-year shipment high in Q3). Gartner saw a bigger market than Canalys …

Tags:Chromebooks| Market Data| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

Jade Bird Display Starts Mass Production of 0.13” MicroLED Display

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Jade Bird Display put out information on its 0.13″ microdisplay and DSCC covered the topic in its blog, including information gained in an interview with the firm in August. The display …

Tags:Augmented Reality| MicroLED

Commission accepts Broadcom commitments for set-top chips

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The European Commission has been taking action against Broadcom over issues of competition policy. In April the firm said it would not make new agreements with similar terms and the Commission …

Tags:Broadcom| Europe| SOCs| STBs

Reinvesting in the Entertainment Landscape

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Stinger Report has an interesting update on a new category (to me) of VR location-based entertainment, ‘Arena-scale’ VR or ‘Free Roaming’ or ‘Walking Attractions’. Players have backpack PCs and VR …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

Lenovo, HP, and Dell led PCs to 10-year shipment high in Q3

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Canalys has been in the news this week! The company put out its Q3 PC sales data and reported that the volume of notebooks (64 million) was close to the record …

Tags:Market Data| Notebooks| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

OWC Thunderbolt 3 mini Dock review: Affordable dock offers connectivity for two 4K external displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OWC has a Thunderbolt 3 mini Dock that can support dual HDMI outputs at up to UltraHD at 60Hz. The mini-dock is just $119. What We Think Not the biggest story, …

Tags:Interfaces| PCs| Thunderbolt

Unreal Engine will power the Hummer EV’s infotainment display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Epic Games has revealed that the forthcoming GMC Hummer vehicle (to be launched next week) will have an infotainment system based on the Unreal Engine – previously developed for games. What …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Automotive| Software

‘This will be the European channel’s most profitable year ever’ – Canalys CEO

by Bob Raikes

The European channel will log its most profitable year ever this year amid a global health crisis, claims Canalys CEO Steve Brazier. Brazier used his keynote at this year’s virtual Canalys Channels… What They …

Tags:Europe| PC Market (Personal Computers - PCs)

Nvidia Research develops a neural network to replace traditional video compression

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nvidia has develoed a new cloud-AI-based codec for video which is claimed to reduce bandwidth by 90% compared to H.264. (Hmmm, that’s what the article said, but an example shown dropped …

Tags:Big Data/AI| Codecs| Nvidia| VideoConferencing

Q320 results in highest single quarter of global TV shipments

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Data from Trendforce showed that TV volumes reached a new historic high of 62.05 million units in Q3 2020, up 38.8% QoQ and 12.9% YoY partly because of deferred shipments from …

Tags:Large LCD Supply| Samsung| TCL| TVs (TV Sets)| USA