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ViXS has been through something of a traumatic year. We met with Perry Chappell, VP of Worldwide Sales who filled us in on recent developments. The company has not been bringing in revenues in line with the cumulative investment of $250 million or thereabouts in R&D spending over the years. As a result, the company … Read more
In its suite in the Venetian Hotel during CES, Cima Nanotech (Singapore) showed a 65″ LCD monitor fitted with the company’s projective capacitive touch screen. Also shown was an InFocus 40″ monitor with Cima NanoTech TP, which was launched in autumn 2015 with an MSRP of $1199. Although pro-cap has largely replaced resistive touch in … Read more
Lattice Semiconductor took over the space previously occupied by Silicon Image, which Lattice acquired earlier this year (Lattice Semiconductor Closes Acquisition of Silicon Image). The company was promoting SuperMHL (although the MHL group had its own booth as well) and was showing how HDMI at 4K60 could be sent over HDBaseT using the Display Stream … Read more
We met up with Broadcom, which is in the process of being acquired by Avago Technologies (a deal that should be complete by 1st February). However, the setup was the same as previous years and the firm had a meeting room area at the back of the South Hall. The first system we looked at … Read more
David Haye, the British boxer, has had his comeback fight shown in virtual reality. The match, against Australia’s Mark De Mori, took place in London’s O2 Arena on the 16tth January. It was filmed with 360° cameras and can now be accessed the form of the Hayemaker (Android only) app.
Intel reported Q4 net profit of $3.6 billion, while turnover for the period was $14.9 billion. For the full year 2015, net profit was $11.4 billion, down by $300 million YoY from $11.7 billion. Turnover for the period was $55.4 billion, down $500 million YoY from $55.9 billion. The server business was the primary problem … Read more
The PGA Tour (also known as the Sony Open), which began in Hawaii on the 17th January, is being recorded in UltraHD using Sony’s professional cameras. In particular, Sony’s HDC-4300 will be used to capture action at the 17th hole. The cameras will record video for the main broadcast, as well as UltraHD HDR video, … Read more
While the Intel Compute Stick and Thunderbolt technologies are not completely new, they were either shown at CES for the first time or replaced with newer models. The Thunderbolt 3 is the Intel implementation of USB C which was launched at last year’s Computex. With the Thunderbolt controller the interface is fast enough to push … Read more
With cars taking up a good portion of the CES exhibit space, the interest and availability of head up displays (HUD) was everywhere. While in the past years HUDs were a standalone technology to provide the driver with additional information, the position of a HUD in the automotive display world is changing. Besides the integration … Read more
Royole may not be on your horizon of display developers and manufacturers, but they have closed a Series C funding of $172 million for a total of $190 million in funding. While this does not seem a lot when you are developing display technologies, it is plenty when it comes to putting out new devices. … Read more
Atmel demonstrated their touch controller line for automotive and other applications at CES, which allows input with moisture / water present as well as using a glove or a stylus. These robust touch control systems are the next generations of input devices for our smartphones and tablets. A new development also demonstrated the ability of … Read more
Lumus Optical, the Israel-based developer showed their latest LCOS based DK 50 binocular AR device as well as some older models for comparison. Unlike other technologies, they couple their image into a planar waveguide that is not based on holographic coatings. Instead they carefully the couple the image into the glass plate that has semi … Read more
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