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IDC said that as many as 100,000 smartphones get damaged by liquids every day in Western Europe and that is a factor in an increase in the sales volume of devices offering resistance against water damage (and other liquids) have grown 45.2% over the first nine months of the year. Water resistant smartphones reached 22.5 … Read more
International Data Corporation (IDC) is excited to announce the launch of its newest Tracker ®research program focusing on the emerging Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) headset market. The first data published by the Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker focuses on OEM market sizing in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16) … Read more
Taiwanese sources say that Innolux is developing its automotive panel business by expanding sales into China and Japan after developing mainly in the US and Europe. The company hopes to boost its sales as automotive development cycles are said to be faster in Asia. The company is forecasting 8-9 million units in 2016, with clients … Read more
Digitimes Research said that 112.3 million smartphones shipped in Q3 in China, up 5.2% from Q2 and 5.8% on Q3 2015 and representing 30.9% of the global market. Brands based outside China shipped 17.1 million units (15.2% share, but 2.8% down from Q2 and a long way down (36.7%) from last year. The growth is … Read more
Intel is to update its NUC (Next Unit of Computing) devices to use the latest Core chips. The NUC6CAYH uses a Celeron J3445 CPU quad core CPU (Apollo Lake) with Intel HDGraphics 500. Memory support is up to 8GB and there is a a single 2.5″ SSD/HD slot while the graphics output is via VGA … Read more
Mitsubishi Electric announced a new red laser diode (ML562G85) with a claimed world record output of 2.1W and with 639 nm output and will ship it from 1st February. Mitsubishi said that the challenge had been to keep the wavelength below 640nm while keeping output high on the device, which emits 4.2 times the amount … Read more
Christie’s new Extreme Series joins the company’s Aspect family of LCD video panels. The new series consists of four models: FHD553-XE, FHD553-XE-R, FHD553-XE-H, and FHD553-XE-HR and include a range of brightness levels. Designed for impressive near-seamless video walls, the Extreme Series adds to the Christie Aspect range of product options, including: bezel size, brightness, power, … Read more
If you change your mind about things so often you don’t want to have a bumper sticker on your car because it’s harder to change a bumper sticker than your mind, perhaps Talelight has the solution for you. They are offering what they call the world’s first electronic bumper sticker. It is a full color … Read more
Dell will introduce a ‘Smart Desk’ concept that will compete with products for content creation such as the Windows Surface Studio and the HP Sprout. The system uses dual displays, one that is flat for pen and touch input along with a monitor. The company has a controller that is reminiscent of the Surface Dial, … Read more
Nexell of Korea has announced a new application processor, the NXP5540 that can support HEVC (H.265) encoding at UltraHD resolution and both VP9 and HEVC decoding at UltraHD at 60fps, using ip from Chips&Media. Neo Kang, CEO of Nexell, said “We expect it to occupy a competitive position in various multi-media SoC markets such as … Read more
ViXS Systems Inc. announced its FY17 Q3 financial results with net sales of $8.3 mn and net loss of $3.0 mn. The net sales recorded a 61% growth over FY16 Q3’s net sales of $5.1 mn and a minor increase in net loss from FY16 Q3 figure of $2.8 mn. There was also a marginal … Read more
Idemitsu put out a release saying that it will expand its capacity for the production of OLED materials in Korea, from five tonnes per year to eight, bringing the company’s overall capacity up from seven tonnes to ten. The aim is to complete the capacity boost during the first half of fiscal year 2017 (i.e. … Read more
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