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Embedded World Round-Up

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 Bullish on Automotive Take-up

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

Process Flow and Display Backplane Evolution

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 Exploits EL Advantages

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

AR Versus VR Turns into AR and VR

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

Mitsubishi Pushes LCD Operating Specs

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

Plenty To See at ED/Embedded World

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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

Hendy Highlights “Race to the Bottom”

The final speaker that we heard was Ian Hendy of Hendy Consulting which looks at the finances and development of the supply side of the display industry. His talk was entitled “Race to the Bottom” – he had coordinated with Gray to make sure that they were covering broadly different topics. Hendy started by saying … Read more

Innovations in Hybrid STBs Will Fuel the Global In-built Set-top Boxes Market Until 2020

According to the latest market research report by Technavio, the global in-built set-top boxes market sales will likely surpass 179 million units by 2020. In this report, Technavio covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global in-built set-top boxes market for 2016-2020. The market size has been calculated based on the revenue generated … Read more

Toshiba to Showcase Leading-Edge Semiconductor and Storage Solutions for Automotive, IoT and Industrial Product Areas at electronica China 2016

Toshiba Corporation’s Semiconductor & Storage Products Company today announced that it will showcase its leading-edge semiconductor and storage technologies and solutions at electronica China 2016. Toshiba will highlight solutions in three areas—Automotive, IoT and Industrial—under the unifying concept of creating a safe, secure and comfortable society. The trade fair for electronic components, systems and applications … Read more

Are Chinese Companies Gaining Control of Displays?

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Paul Gray of IHS then gave a display market overview which he called “Chinese Companies Gaining Control”. He said that the current “spreading unhappiness” is a logical consequence of the events of recent years. He also said that the future is not just “the past plus a few points” – new things are happening and … Read more

Samsung Announces “Galaxy Life Fest” for Fans at This Year’s South by Southwest Interactive

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced today its first-ever Galaxy Life Fest – a three-day music event created for Galaxy owners and SXSW Interactive, Gold and Platinum badge holders, premiering at this year’s South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Interactive. The event will feature some of today’s hottest acts including Public Enemy and the debut live performance from … Read more