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Registration Now Open for Display Week 2023 in Los Angeles

The Society for Information Display (SID) is pleased to announce that  registration for Display Week 2023 is now open. The highly anticipated annual event takes place May 21-26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Now in its 60th year, SID’s annual International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition (known as “Display Week”) is the premier event for the global electronic display and visual … Read more

Global Smartphone Shipments See 15.4% Fall from the Previous Year, with Even Apple Taking a Double-Digit Hit

New data from Omdia’s smartphone preliminary shipment report for the final quarter of 2022 shows that global smartphone shipments totaled 301.5 million units in 4Q22 marking a decrease of 15.4% compared to the previous year. Typically, the last quarter sees the most shipments, however, this year the tide changed with a disappointing and marginal 0.7% … Read more

Gartner Says Top 10 Semiconductor Buyers Decreased Chip Spending by 7.6% in 2022

The top 10 global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) decreased their chip spending by 7.6% and accounted for 37.2% of the total market in 2022, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. Global inflation and recession pressures sharply weakened demand for PCs and smartphones in 2022, impacting global OEMs production. Most of the top 10 semiconductor customers are … Read more

Worldwide Shipments of Tablets and Chromebooks Declined Sharply in 2022, According to IDC Tracker

Worldwide tablet shipments posted flat growth of 0.3% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2022 (4Q22), totaling 45.7 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. For the full year 2022, the tablet market saw a decline of 3.3% year over year, ending two … Read more

Is Apple Reducing the Role of Industrial Design?

Bloomberg is reporting on changes at Apple’s with the departure of Evans Hankey, the company’s VP of industrial design, who will not be replaced. Instead, the company’s core group of about 20 industrial designers will report to Jeff Williams, Apple’s chief operating officer. The company will also give larger roles to a group of Apple’s … Read more

Chipmaking Equipment: Putting the Squeeze on China

The deal is deemed crucial to recent US efforts to restrict chip manufacturing and development in China. This is because the global market for chipmaking equipment is dominated by US company Applied Materials, Dutch company ASML, and Japanese company Tokyo Electron. The latter two companies produce equipment that doesn’t rely on US technology. DigiTimes This … Read more

After NAB Asking the FCC to Recommit to ATSC 3.0, What Next?

Characterizing the transition as “stalled,” the association asked the FCC last week to recommit itself to promoting the standard to the public and take steps to advance the development of peripherals that consumers could use to access 3.0 signals (since the standard is not-backward compatible)  as well as establish a Task Force to focus on the resolving … Read more

TriLite’s Trixel 3 Projection Display Wins 2023 Prism Award

Peter Weigand, CEO at TriLite, said: “We’re delighted to be honored by SPIE, with this recognition of Trixel 3 as a breakthrough innovation for AR displays. Our latest product evolution, Trixel 3, sets a new standard in super small projection displays, and it is a revolutionary step forward in terms of size, weight, image quality, … Read more

Osram Gets the Better of Apple Adopting MicroLEDs

Whether Micro LED is incorporated into smartwatches, AR headsets, or smartphones, two major factors will determine the market competitiveness of this technology. The first factor involves lowering the costs of Micro LED chips. A notable solution to make the production of Micro LED chips much more economical is to enlarge the wafers that they are … Read more

Tech Spending in ME, Turkey, and Africa Close to $100 Billion in 2023

Overall spending on information and communications technology (ICT) across the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META) will top $233.8 billion this year, an increase of 3.9% over 2022. That’s according to the latest predictions presented today by International Data Corporation (IDC) as more than 400 senior executives from the region’s most influential technology vendors, telecommunications … Read more

Barco’s Recovery Continues

Barco’s NT series goes beyond expectations for LED walls, with “sharp, light and clever” solutions Because an LED video wall is only as good as its image processing, Barco has developed Infinipix Gen2. This powerful solution makes sure the on-screen content looks at its best. With no visual distortion, low latency, perfect syncing and no tearing, … Read more