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Digital Projection said that it will show five new projectors at ISE in February. The company will have the Insight Dual Laser 27,000 lumen projector (right) with a native contrast of 2,000:1. It will be shown on a 4.5m wall at ISE. The lifetime is 20,000 hours and weight is 100kg. Further down the Insight … Read more
Worldwide semiconductor capital spending is projected to increase 2.9 percent in 2017, to $69.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. This is down from 5.1 percent growth in 2016. “The stronger growth in 2016 was fueled by Increased spending in late 2016 which can be attributed to a NAND flash shortage which was more severe in … Read more
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) foresees a slow 2017. The foundry predicts a drop of up to 10% QoQ in Q1 revenue and is not optimistic about Q2. It foresees a decline in demand for everything except smartphones, which are expected to see growth of 6% in turnover this year. TSMC makes the A10 processor … Read more
Following the launch of the Nokia 6 smartphone in China on 11th January, pre-orders were already over 100,000, according to China Business News. Available from the 19th, this is the first Android Nokia smartphone and costs 1,699 yuan ($249). Separate reports from Taiwan have said that the phone, sold by HMD, will be made by … Read more
LG Display had a meeting room and I was grateful to get a personal tour to what was being shown. Unfortunately, the marketing people I was with took the prohibition of photography very seriously, so I was much shorter on details than I might have been. However, Chris and Ken also went around and that … Read more
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (Desktop, Notebook, and Workstation) totaled 70.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016 (4Q16), posting a year-on-year decline of 1.5%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. The results continued the recent trend of stabilizing growth, which has been in decline since 2012. … Read more
MMD, the leading technology company and brand license partner for Philips Monitors, announces the BDM4037UW, a 40-inch Philips Brilliance 4K Ultra HD LCD display with MultiView feature. This screen is the largest 4K curved computer monitor currently on the market and includes Ultra WideColor Technology, which delivers a wider spectrum of colours for a true-to-life … Read more
AptoVision, Aquantia, Christie Digital, NETGEAR, Sony and ZeeVee today announced that they have formed the SDVoE Alliance to standardize the adoption of Ethernet to transport AV signals in professional AV environments, and to create an ecosystem around SDVoE technology that allows software to define AV applications. All AV distribution and processing applications that demand zero-latency, … Read more
The SDVoE Alliance (Software Defined Video over Ethernet) has been formed to standardise the transport of AV signals over ethernet and to create a system to allow software to define AV applications. Founding members AptoVision, Aquantia, Christie Digital, Netgear, Sony and ZeeVee bring different expertise and perspectives to the table. The alliance’s aims are to: … Read more
High efficiency is one of the goals driving the development of LEDs for lighting, television and mobile devices. Since the display, including backlight, on a mobile device like a smartphone is one of the major consumers of power, any increase in the efficiency of blue LEDs, the basis for the white LEDs commonly used in … Read more
The most important consumer device is now the smartphone, not the TV, and that means that there are lots of ways to exploit the investment of buyers. At CES, I saw a couple of examples of products that I’m sure have a real opportunity in the market, but are really missing the key price point. … Read more
IDC said that worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (Desktop, Notebook, and Workstation) totalled 70.2 million units in the Q4 2016, a year-on-year decline of 1.5%, the fifth year of decline since 2012. Annual shipments of PCs slipped to 260 million units, down 5.7% from 2015. The first quarter of 2016 was still constrained by high … Read more
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