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The Economic Daily News in China said that HTC is expected to sell 400,000 Vive VR devices this year, with 1.5 million forecast for 2017. Part of the increase may come from cost savings which could lead to price reductions.
Hannstar is close to achieving profitability according to reports from Asia as prices have got firmer, especially in markets such as low end smartphones and featurephones where a number of companies have dropped out of the supply chain. The reports said that Hannspree monitor sales in Europe have also been a factor in better finances. … Read more
By the end of this year, semiconductor turnover will have reached $332 billion, down 0.9% YoY, according to Gartner. But the researcher still thinks that the outlook is improving, thanks to stock replacement and higher ASPs. Many companies cut back too much earlier in the year and are now experiencing shortages. /images/Stock_images/forecast.png
MSI is reported by Asian sources to be on track to ship 4.8 million graphics cards this year, with Gigabyte expected to get to 3.45 million units and MSI believes it is catching up with Asustek. Gigabyte is reported to have shipped 2.55 million units by the end of Q3, and MSI at 3.5 million … Read more
A new type of reflective e-paper material and display is under development by a team headed by Andreas Dahlin within the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, (Göteborg, Sweden). It is flexible, ultrathin and reported as able to present the full range of colors that can be produced by an … Read more
E Ink Holdings, maker of low powered electrophoretic displays, said today the company has deployed over 600 displays in various sizes (ranging from 32-, 9.7- and 6.8-inch diagonal) black and white signs. The digital signs are distributed in a new exhibit space for the Estonia national museum, with the lion’s share of the display real-estate … Read more
In the lead up to IFA, GfK highlighted that the gaming market segment of the global PC market was buoyant and it said that the desktop segment of the gaming market globally had increased in revenues by 75% in the last year, with volumes increasing by 58%. For gaming notebooks, the growth in value was … Read more
Withings, which is now owned by Nokia, has released the Activité Steel watch, a fitness tracker that has a simple analogue face and works with an app on a smartphone to track activity. The watch is powered for up to 8 months by a CR2025 button cell. There are black and white models and nine … Read more
Sony Pictures International (SPI) has added an UltraHD application to the Amazon Fire TV and also made the UltraHD channel on the Eutelsat Hotbird satellite neighbourhood at 13º East fully active. The channel on satellite, under the name Funbox 4K/UHD is now being carried by operators in Portugal, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and also in … Read more
The Korea Herald reports that Korean equipment company, TES, which is doing well from investments into NAND memory by Samsung and others, is also doing well from sales to EverDisplay and CSOT in China for OLED manufacturing. TES supplies plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) equipment.
This article is prompted by the fact that the Sonder keyboard, developed by Sonder Design Pty. Ltd. (Eveleigh, NSW, Australia), was prominently featured in the news during this past week. More specifically, it was widely reported that Tim Cook of Apple met with the CEO of Sonder to discuss Apple’s acquisition of Sonder or other … Read more
Sony’s CEO, Kaz Hirai, has said at Mipcom, the annual TV content event in Cannes, that Sony will look beyond just gaming to exploit its PlayStation VR headset and technology. The company has already developed experiences based on films available through Sony Pictures Entertainment including the The Walk, Goosebumps and Ghostbusters. Sony is also reported … Read more
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