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Three top Apple suppliers to commit $900 million to India smartphone incentive plan – sources

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reported that Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron all plan to take advantage of a production-linked plan in India to build factories in the country. The investments could total $900 million. Foxconn …

Tags:Apple| Foxconn (Honhai)| India| Manufacturing| ODMs & OEMs

Fraunhofer IIS launches webinar series on next-gen technologies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Fraunhofer IIS is planning a three-part series of webinars on next generation broadcast and streaming technologies covering HDR and MPEG-H audio abong other topics. The webinars take place on October …

Tags:Fraunhofer| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Streaming Audio

Roku introduces a new Ultra player, a 2-in-1 ‘Streambar’ and a new OS with support for AirPlay 2

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Roku has added new products. The Roku Ultra adds Dolby Vision support, Atmos and Bluetooth. It supports the AV1 codec. It has a remote that supports voice and headphones and the …

Tags:Codecs| Dolby Vision| Roku| Streaming Dongles| Streaming Video

Osram Opto reportedly to become mini LED supplier for Apple

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Digitimes, quoting ‘industry sources’ said that Osram will be a supplier of miniLEDs for Apple’s MacBook. It also said that Apple will have an iPad Pro with 10,000 LEDs early in …

Tags:Apple| MiniLED| Osram

LG Electronics files for QNED trademark

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UK TV Reviewer, Vincent Teoh, spotted that LG Electronics has applied for a trademark in Europe for the QNED acronym. What We Think Of course, you could believe that Teoh spends …

Tags:LG Electronics (LGE)| QNED| Samsung

Southeast Asia to be world’s top laptop producer, surpassing China

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There has been a movement away from assembling notebook PCs in China and the MIC now forecasts that Vietnam & Thailand will overtake China. 90% of the market of 160 million …

Tags:China| Manufacturing| Notebooks

Forecast: US to reach 317m SVoD subs by 2025

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The number of US Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) subscribers will grow from 203 million last year to 317 million by 2025. Netflix will add 10 million subscribers, but the big winners will …

Tags:Streaming Video| SVOD| USA

How to Make a Monitor Lift

by Bob Raikes

What They Say How to make a pop-up monitor holder. What We Think When I’m not hunched over my computer, I like to hack away at bits of wood, so I couldn’t resist including …

Tags:Desktop Monitors

Z Fold 2 Teardown: 3rd Time’s The Charm?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say iFixit took the latest Z Fold 3 and tore it down. It found that the hinge is much simpler than previous foldable devices but didn’t like the repairability because of the …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Samsung| Teardowns

Samsung Maintains U.S. Market Share Lead in Smart TV at 32%

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung is still the biggest smart TV supplier in the US (with 32%), but TCL has now gone past Vizio to take the #2 spot with 14% of sales according to …

Inside Facebook’s race to build super-smart AR glasses you’ll actually want to wear

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Part of the reason that Facebook is so committed to AR is that the company feels it missed out on the creation of the current wave of hardware platforms and wants …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Facebook/Meta

Super-resolution imaging with diagonal sampling

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists from Peking University recognised that one of the limits on digital photography resolution, along with ccd pixel size, is that lenses are circular, while sensors are all rectangular. Sampling usually …

Tags:Digital Photography| R&D (Research & Development)| Resolution