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Accelerating Mobility Adoption and Growing Security Concerns Will Further Incentivize Commercial Device Renewals Throughout 2018, Says IDC

June 1, 2018 by Damir Lokas

Shipments of Western European personal computing device (PCD), including traditional PCs (a combination of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) and tablets (slates and detachables), will total 76.0 million in 2018, a -3.7% YoY decline (-3.3% in 2019 with 73.5 million shipments). The anticipated commercial renewal cycle will experience an extra drive amid the expanding mobile workforce … Read more

Worldwide Spending to Grow by 71.6% by 2022

June 1, 2018 by Bob Raikes

IDC has forecast that the global AR/VR market will grow with a CAGR of 71.6% over the 2017-2022 forecast period and will reach $27 bilion in 2018 – up 92% over 2016. The consumer industry maintains its position as the largest source of spending for AR/VR products and services over the course of the forecast … Read more

Supply Tightening for Smartphone Panels

June 1, 2018 by Bob Raikes

China-based research company, Sigmaintell Research has forecast that supply demand balance for smartphone displays will get closer to equilibrium in the third quarter of 2018, as seasonal demand patterns drive volume growth to around 530 million in Q3. At the same time, on the supply side, there has been some tightening as panel makers introduce … Read more

Arçelik Selects SERAPHIC Browser Solutions for Grundig Smart TVs

June 1, 2018 by Damir Lokas

Europe’s leading home appliances manufacturer Arçelik announces its collaboration with SERAPHIC, a global leader of digital TV browser solutions, to deploy SERAPHIC’s full range of browser solutions across its flagship brand, Grundig. The new products will be unveiled across European markets including Turkey, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Croatia, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and … Read more

Arçelik Announces Grundig Partnership with Seraphic

June 1, 2018 by Andrew Fenn

“Europe’s leading home appliances manufacturer” Arçelik has announced it will deploy Seraphic’s full range of browser solutions across its flagship TV brand, Grundig. The new products will be unveiled across European markets including Turkey, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Croatia, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Serbia. Seraphic offers a portfolio of HbbTV2, OpApp, Freeview … Read more

ARM Announces Mali-V76 with 8K Decode Support

June 1, 2018 by Damir Lokas

Over the last five years, we’ve seen CPU performance on smartphones increase an average of 20+ percent every year without compromising battery life. However, the same cannot be said for laptops, which have struggled to adapt to a slowing Moore’s Law over the last few years, delivering annual performance gains averaging only single-digit percentages while … Read more

ARM VPU Mali-V76 Has 8K Support

June 1, 2018 by Milos Pavlovic

Arm has announced new CPU, a GPU and a VPU design for video processing. The Cortex A-76 is claimed to be 35% faster and 40% more power efficient than last year’s designs and the company claims that the performance gets within 10% of the performance of Intel CPUs, although chips should be 4X smaller. It … Read more

Peerless-AV’s Landscape Digital Signage Kiosk with Hourglass Design Now Available

May 31, 2018 by Damir Lokas

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AV technology pioneer Peerless-AV announced the availability of the KILH5 Indoor Landscape Kiosk, first shown at ISE 2018. With its curved edges and shapely enclosure, the kiosk offers new and improved aesthetics that will open opportunities in a wider range of verticals where an appealing and attractive design is a major requirement such as museums, … Read more

Worldwide Smartphone Volumes Will Remain Down in 2018 Before Returning to Growth in 2019 and Beyond, According to IDC

May 31, 2018 by Damir Lokas

After declining 0.3% in 2017, the worldwide smartphone market is expected to contract again in 2018 before returning to growth in 2019 and beyond. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments are forecast to drop 0.2% in 2018 to 1.462 billion units, which is down from 1.465 billion … Read more

IDC: Worldwide Smartphone Volumes will Return to Growth in 2019 and Beyond

May 31, 2018 by Andrew Fenn

After declining 0.3% in 2017, the worldwide smartphone market is expected to contract again in 2018 before returning to growth in 2019 and beyond, according to IDC. Smartphone shipments are forecast to drop 0.2% in 2018 to 1.462 billion units, which is down from 1.465 billion in 2017 and 1.469 billion in 2016. IDC expects … Read more

Rockwell Collins to Provide Training Display for CAE Flight Simulator

May 31, 2018 by Andrew Fenn

Rockwell Collins has been selected by CAE to provide its Panorama collimated display for the CC-295 full-flight simulator, in support of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue program. The display is designed for use on simulators requiring a wide field of view, cross-cockpit views and side-by-side training. It supports unobstructed fields of … Read more

Varjo Demonstrates World’s First Cinematic-Quality Mixed Reality Technology

May 31, 2018 by Damir Lokas

Varjo (pronounced [var yo], meaning ‘shadow’ in Finnish) Technologies, the world leader in human-eye resolution professional XR products, announced that its upcoming VR headset will be the first in the world to enable cinematic-quality Mixed Reality. Varjo released a real-time video filmed entirely through its early Mixed Reality prototype to demonstrate the seamless merging of … Read more