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A team at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a concept that they call ‘passive WiFi’, which is up to 10,000 times more efficient than today’s wireless standards. It also consumes 1,000 times less power than existing efficient platforms, such as Bluetooth 4.0 and Zigbee. Bit rates in the system are up to 11Mbps, … Read more
Reuters says that Sharp and Foxconn are now moving forwards with the acquisition deal (Sharp Accepts Foxconn Bid), which was delayed last week due to clarifications required on Sharp liabilities (Foxconn Delays Sharp Acquisition). A source told Reuters that most of the due diligence had been completed, and that discussions are set to conclude this … Read more
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) reported a YoY decrease of 7% in February, to NT$17.7 billion ($538.9 million). Year-to-date revenues were NT$38.8 billion ($1.2 billion), down 8.3% YoY. Lite-On Semiconductor rose 4.3% YoY, to NT$645 million ($19.6 million). Consolidated revenue for the first two months of the year were up 6.8%, to NT$1.5 billion ($45.7 million). … Read more
Asian supply chain sources have said that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 is likely to ‘dominate’ Android smartphones in the first half of 2016. The processor is being used by firms including Samsung, LG, HTC, Xiaomi, Vivo and LeTV. More than 100 mobile devices using the 820 are under development, Qualcomm SVP Tim McDonough has said.
HTC has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.2 billion ($129.1 million) for February: a 35.2% MoM fall and 54.5% YoY. Year-to-date revenues were NT$10.7 billion ($326.2 million), which is down 50.33% YoY. Sales are expected to remain flat in March, due to seasonal factors. A new flagship is not thought to be set to be released … Read more
Alpha Display is Korea-based although it also has offices in San Jose and Sofia. It specialises in industrial and touch displays and was showing four models in 10.4″, 15″, 17″ and 19″ that are approved to EN50155 for transport. It also has products with E Marks for use in vehicles in Europe in the same … Read more
HDBaseT and the developers, Valens, were at the Embedded World show to demonstrate two uses of the technology. First, we looked at a new dongle-based transmitter that has been developed and which can easily be fitted to any HDMI output to allow support of an HDBaseT display. The company was also showing how HDBaseT can … Read more
Chances are you missed the Recent SID Webinar on display backplane evolution given by SID Fellow Dr. John Wager, professor at the school of EECS, Oregon State University. Wager said important to the evolution of the display backplane is not only “electron mobility and transport” in addressing ever more pixel dense panels, but “process complexity” … Read more
Beneq is the name of the business that is developing EL displays in Espoo, Finland and was at one time owned by Planar. Beneq’s display is being used in laser dentistry equipment. Image:Meko The first display that we looked at was a new transparent display that has been developed especially for a company that makes … Read more
In a brand new patent application, Microsoft claims a technology that would create a head-mounted display that is capable of acting as AR and VR glasses. The patent (US patent application 2015/045779), titled ‘Head-Mounted Display with Electrochromic Dimming Module for Augmented and Virtual Reality Perception‘, adds an extra layer in the near-eye device to allow … Read more
The first booth we looked at during Embedded World was the Mitsubishi booth. Although the company only has limited capacity for LCD manufacture, it focuses on special and industrial displays. One of the items of news at last year’s event was the extension of the environmental limits of the firm’s LCDs and this year the … Read more
We managed to get a few hours at the Electronic Displays Conference in Nuremberg which runs alongside the Embedded World trade show. This is an interesting show for industrial applications of displays, but both events typically take place in the same week as the Mobile World Congress, which makes covering it more difficult than we … Read more
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