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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said that sales of semiconductors reached $31 billion in November, up 7.4% year on year and 2.0 up on October, the best annual growth since January 2015. The Chinese market was up 16% year on year, but sales in Europe were down by 1.6%. The SIA said that 2016 sales … Read more
Digitimes Research forecast that that 303 billion LEDs will ship in 2017, 23.9% up year on year, but with ASPs likely to decline by 17%. 200 billion units are expected to go into lighting, up 39.2%, 33 billion into mobile devices, 17 billion in LED displays and 14.29 billion in LCD backlights in TVs. 14 … Read more
If you thought the largest active-matrix electrophoretic display you could buy is only 32 inches on the diagonal, it’s time to think again. At CES 2017, in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s seemingly endless South Hall, E Ink showed its new 42″ display in cooperation with QuirkLogic, whose networked white-board system (called “Quilla”) is the … Read more
Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-network, multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, and Samsung Electronics today announced an expanded partnership to ensure the 2017 line of Samsung Smart TVs comply with the Ultra HD (UHD) and 4K content guidelines set by MovieLabs’ Specifications for Next Generation Video and Enhanced Content … Read more
Increasing consumer enthusiasm for the Internet of Things (IoT) and adoption of emerging technology will drive the U.S. consumer technology industry to $292 billion in retail revenues ($228 billion wholesale) in 2017, according to new research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™. The latest edition of CTA’s semi-annual industry report, U.S. Consumer Technology Sales and … Read more
Wipro said that its middleware is being used by Hisense for UltraHD TVs in Japan. Features include support for ISDB-T/S standards and HD-PVR functions and can support OSes including Android TV, Linux and QNX. The software enables Smart TV features such as hybrid multi-tuner (terrestrial & satellite), antenna diversity, one and full segment services, BS/CS, … Read more
International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — Opera TV, the market leader in enabling OTT, and MStar Semiconductor, Inc., a leading semiconductor company for display and digital home solutions, today announced the availability of a built-in Over-the-Top (OTT) solution on MStar’s System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Set-Top Boxes (STB). Together, Opera TV and MStar are offering STB manufacturers and … Read more
Imagination Technologies said that its PowerVR video cores have been used by Socionext, the Panasonic-Fujitsu J/V, in its SoCs. In checking this story, we spotted that in November, Socionext also announced a deal to work with Teradici to use the firm’s technology in PCOIP endpoint chips – sorry, we missed this one at the time!
MStar has said that it will integrate support for Nagra’s TVKey technology pending finalisation of a new TVkey licensing body. The MStar EMC TVkey integration is intended to enable pay-TV service providers to deliver high-value premium content directly to supported TVs without a dedicated set-top box while still meeting strict MovieLabs standards for Enhanced Content … Read more
The creation of the ZED stereo camera required Stereolabs, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) to develop depth and motion sensing technology. The company has now gone on to use these technologies in the production of a new product, the Linq mixed reality headset. The idea behind mixed reality is to combine the best aspects of virtual … Read more
At CES 2017, HP Inc. today debuted exciting new PC innovations that will change the way people interact with their PCs. “HP has been on an innovation roll over the last year and that momentum continues with major advances across our PC portfolio that create incredible customer experiences for both personal and business uses,” said … Read more
Panasonic has today announced two new Ultra HD Blu-ray Players, the DMP-UB400 and UB300. Ultra HD Blu-ray is the next-generation video disc standard that not only delivers high-quality 4K-resolution pictures but also supports the BT.2020 set of standards – providing a significantly wider gamut of colours which offer richer, more vibrant displays and future-proofing the … Read more
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