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Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 34” Gaming Monitor is Now Available

Samsung Electronics America announced the retail availability of Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 (G85SB). First debuted at IFA 2022, the Odyssey OLED G8 delivers a premium gaming experience with an incredibly low 0.03ms response time, a 175Hz refresh rate and life-like image quality. The 34-inch QD-OLED monitor has a super slim, premium metal design with mesmerizing Core Lighting+ … Read more

ASUS Announces Vivobook 13 Slate OLED

ASUS announced Vivobook 13 Slate OLED (T3304), the new generation of this fun-filled 13.3-inch detachable 2-in-1 laptop that makes it make it easier to enjoy everything, everywhere. With its vivacious styling and versatile design, Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is a brilliant all-rounder. Its combination of a brilliant 13.3-inch OLED Dolby Vision Pantone Validated touchscreen and a … Read more

RealWear has Entered into an Agreement to Become a Publicly Traded Company via Cascadia Acquisition SPAC

RealWear and Cascadia Acquisition, a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), have entered into a definitive business combination agreement that is expected to result in RealWear becoming a publicly traded company. Upon closing of the proposed transaction, the combined company will be named RealWear, Inc. and is expected to trade on the Nasdaq. RealWear provides … Read more

Vedanta and Foxconn $20 Billion Gujarat Fab Gets Tech Leadership

Vedanta has hired a Texas Instruments and NXP Semiconductor vet, David Reed, as CEO of is semiconductor business. Last year, Vedanta and Foxconn announced a joint venture to build a $20 billion fab for semiconductor and display fabrication in Gujarat, India. The expectation was that the fab would break even within 4 years, according to … Read more

New Research Into Polymers With a Metal Backbone has Implications for Optoelectronics

The team at Fudan University and East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai, China) used a chalice-shaped molecule (calixarene) with four binding sites as the “scaffold” for the metal polymer. They attached four poly(aminopyridine) chains to the calixarenes, which bundles the four chains and aligns them in parallel. Synthesis of the chains can be … Read more

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