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AMD has announced that its new technology, XConnect, is behind Razer’s new Core external GPU product (Razer Shaves Weight From the Blade). The Razer Core is an external GPU Add-in-Board (AIB) holder. Using it, owners can add significant graphical power to the new Razer Blade Stealth, which features an integrated GPU. It will be shipped … Read more
LG Display is to construct a G5 OLED lighting fab in Gumi, South Korea. Initial capacity will be 15,000 substrates, which could be ramped up ‘depending on the market situation’. Analyst Comment LG showed new OLED solutions at – we believe – Light + Building 2016 in Frankfurt this week. Largely, the company was focused … Read more
Jon Peddie’s Techwatch newsletter has covered a VR story that we missed at CES – but, as the product was only shown behind closed doors, we don’t feel too bad about it. Image: TechwatchOptoma is best-known for its projectors, but has now confirmed to us that it is also building a VR headset. You might … Read more
Samsung Display unveiled its 55″ transparent and mirrored OLED products in June last year, as part of an exhibit at the Hong Kong Convention Centre. Since then, we have seen them at shows including IFA, CES, ISE and PTE. The firm has now announced names and a release date for both products. Both models have … Read more
ZTE will appeal against the export restrictions placed on it by the USA (US Bans Exports to ZTE), according to sources speaking to the Shanghai Daily. ‘A senior commerce department official’ said, “The US Department of Commerce and ZTE Corp are in ongoing discussions”. The length of the appeals process remains unclear. Export bans are … Read more
The acquisition of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has not been approved, following a failure to gain antitrust approval. Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission neither accepted nor denied the application, which expired on the 17th March. ASE will return all shares to participating investors, but has said that it will not give … Read more
Spectral Edge, which developed the Eyeteq colour correction system (Spectral Edge’s HDMI Adapter Compensates for Colour Blindness), has launched a server-based version of its technology. It is an alternative to the existing HDMI adapter. Operators can use Eyeteq Server to automatically process content at the head-end. Eyeteq-enhanced video is then streamed to subscribers in real-time.
Sky will roll out its own UltraHD content to the new Sky Q set-top box, the Sky Q Silver, this summer. The company’s strategy director, Nick Hern (speaking at the Connected TV Summit in London), also said that the new Now TV box will feature a new DTT tuner. The box, which will also be … Read more
In a recent article, Tom Allen of Display Daily reported on data from the Leichtman Research Group that the cable subscriber base in the US has dropped by about 385,000 subscribers in 2015 (US IPTV Suffers First Decline). This is seen as a continuation of the ‘cable cutter’ syndrome that has been haunting US cable … Read more
Today the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, formerly the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, announced the return of its CES Unveiled event series to France for a fourth consecutive CES Unveiled Paris and a debut event, CES Unveiled Prague. These two events, uniting innovative technology companies, top members of the press, industry analysts, buyers and key consumer … Read more
BagTag is from the Netherlands and was at the show to introduce its electronic bag tagging system which is built around an E Ink display. The tag is designed to be fixed to individual bags by adhesives (3M VHB tape, apparently, which is also used to stick GoPros to helmets!) and uses bluetooth (or NFC) … Read more
Rimowa is a high end supplier of baggage that is based in Germany. Like BagTag, it wants tags to be electronic, but wants travellers to buy the firm’s baggage with the displays already fitted. Like BagTag, the label can be updated with bluetooth from a phone, but Rimowa already has support from the Lufthansa app … Read more
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