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BOE has filed a statement disclosing that its new G6 LTPS fab in Chengdu, China (BOE Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony) will be used to produce flexible OLEDs. The company is working with the Chengdu Municipal Government (which is an investor) and says that the fab will have two lines, both with a monthly capacity of 24,000 … Read more
LG has announced that it plans to start using OLED displays for its flagship phones by the second half of 2017. LG Display is expected to start producing OLEDs for LG’s mobile phones, rather than LG purchasing the panels from domestic rival Samsung Display. The firm is building a flexible OLED fab in South Korea … Read more
Hisense was showing several new smartphones, two of which – in the company’s quest to become a premium international brand – featured AMOLED displays: the C1 and A1. The Hisense C1 is the first with the new Vision UI 2.0, Hisense’s own reskin of Android 5.1. This runs on a 1.36GHz octa-core Mediatek processor. The … Read more
The European Commission has approved Dell’s proposed acquisition of data storage firm EMC (Dell Pays $67 Billion for EMC), under the EU Merger Regulation. The EC assessed the effects of the deal on the external enterprise storage systems market, and investigated the risk of the merged entity attempting to restrict access to VMWare’s software, before … Read more
Sharp Imaging and Information Company of America (SIICA), a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Mike Marusic, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Operations & Services, to its prestigious list of 2016 Channel Chiefs. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT … Read more
Today Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) and Leica Camera AG are delighted to announce the start of a strategic partnership, a co-operation with shared premium ambitions and spirit, which will see both technology and photography brands combining their shared ethos in a long-term commitment to the art of craftsmanship, meticulous engineering and the spirit of … Read more
Internationally, 23 percent of online consumers say virtual interactions can be as good as being there in person. GfK has published findings from a 22-country survey showing that just under a quarter (23 percent) of online consumers agree[1] that virtual interactions with people and places can be as good as being there in person. This … Read more
Today, Apple filed a motion to fight a California judge’s order that requires the company to create a back door to defeat the security features on the iPhone. Apple argued the judge had overstepped her authority and that the FBI’s demands would force the company to write a new “GovOS” to facilitate the hacking of … Read more
It’s a while since we met with Synaptics and as a result we had a lot to catch up on. Historically, the company was known for its touch technology which is widely used in touch pads on notebook systems. About two years ago (June 2014), the firm bought the display driver business from Renesas and … Read more
In a recently released video from BMW, the firm discusses its head up display (HUD) offering as well as its future plans. It’s no surprise that BMW, as one of the early supporters of HUDs, is offering more than one solution to its customers. First of all, there is a range of different perceived image … Read more
Imagination Technologies had a number of demonstrations that were similar to those at CES. They focused on the capability of Imagination in GPUs and in video processing. The first product we looked at was the Huawei Mate 8 which has a HiSilicon Kirin SoC which includes the Imagination video cores supporting H.265. The video cores … Read more
Neonode was on the ST Microelectronics booth and on the Swedish booth (it is based in Stockholm) and was showing a bar system that includes an infrared curtain touch system that can be used to enable touch on notebooks that were shipped without that feature. The Airbar fits along the bottom of the display and … Read more
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