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Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $339.7 billion in 2016, a 1.5 percent increase from 2015 revenue of $334.8 billion, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. (see Table 1). The top 25 semiconductor vendors’ combined revenue increased by 7.9 percent compared with 2015, and accounted for 75.9 percent of the market. “After a poor start to … Read more
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $339.7 billion in 2016, a 1.5% increase from 2015 revenue of $334.8 billion, according to preliminary results by Gartner. The top 25 semiconductor vendors’ combined revenue increased by 7.9% compared with 2015, and accounted for 75.9% of the market. “After a poor start to the year, characterized by inventory burn-off, the … Read more
US and Asian sources have reported on three new iPads due from Apple in 2017. These are forecast to be a 9.7″, 10.5″ and a Pro version at 12.9″. Production may start on the smallest in the first quarter, but in the second for the others, although US sources suggest a launch in the second … Read more
Canadian Pay TV service providers (specifically, cable, direct-to-home satellite and IPTV providers) along with set-top box manufacturers have finalized a voluntary agreement, committing themselves to improving the energy efficiency of set-top boxes from coast-to-coast-to-coast. With this voluntary agreement, reached in consultation with federal and provincial governments, utilities and supporting organizations, it is expected that total … Read more
A voluntary agreement has been finalised between Canadian pay-TV providers and STB makers to improve energy efficiency. The agreement has the backing of the federal and provincial governments and the aim is to cut annual CO2 emissions by more than 100,000 tonnes and reduce power consumption from 3.4 terawatt hours in 2016 to 2.7TWh by … Read more
Augmented reality devices as a category seems to be taking a back seat its cousin, virtual reality, with VR stealing most of the press attention, with the help of multi-billion dollar acquisitions (Oculus Rift $2B sale to Facebook). Top name brands such as Intel and Microsoft have been opening up their respective platforms for partner … Read more
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently been defending the company against allegations that Oculus / Facebook stole intellectual property from ZeniMax Media Inc, a game and content developer headquartered in Washington, DC. The law suit has already been going on for a week and includes allegations that John Carmack, who is now CTO at Oculus, … Read more
2016 was a device launch break-out year for VR headset hardware. The two most widely known devices began shipping to consumers in the spring of last year, both using a Pentile OLED display with 2160 x 1080 resolution display. In late March, the Oculus Rift started shipping (selling for $599), and the HTC Vive VR … Read more
When Display Monitor and Display Daily first started covering vehicular electronics at CES in depth, we focused on vehicular displays. That was reasonable for a news, analysis, and research organization that specializes in displays, but now, just three years later, that approach would look myopic. Today, the excitement in the auto industry is on electric … Read more
Lenovo took over one of the restaurants in the Venetian again, as it has done for the last several years. There was a lot to see and we had a whistlestop tour of the new products which strongly focused on the consumer side of the business, with little sign of the new Kaby Lake business … Read more
We met at CES with three of the quantum dot companies, Nanosys, Nanoco and Quantum Materials Corp. It was interesting to see their different points of view. All of them were, of course, very happy to see the amount of marketing effort being put into the technology by Samsung. Nanoco Sees Supply Limiting QD Filters … Read more
Movie visionary, Doug Trumbull, has developed an advanced capture and display solution called Magi. It is based upon images captured and displayed in stereoscopic 3D, 4K and 120 frames per second. It is a solution that can be used in many areas, not just theaters, and he has been working hard to develop the concept … Read more
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