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In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, AMD has revealed plans to cut its workforce by 5% – more than 480 people. Most of the layoffs will be completed by the end of fiscal 2016. The company expects to take restructuring and asset impairment charges of about $42 million, as a result … Read more
Researchers at IBM say that a ‘major breakthrough’ has been made in the area of carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors – which may replace silicon when Moore’s Law finally fails to deliver. This coloured micrograph shows several transistors made from a single carbon nanotube. The yellow bars are metal electrodes of varying dimensions. The faint vertical … Read more
SES hosted a conference in London at the end of September, providing updates on the UltraHD rollout. Chris Forrester, journalist for outlets including Inside Satellite and Advanced Television, said that the format has taken “huge steps forward” over the last six months. UltraHD channels have been launched worldwide, and not only in mature markets. India, … Read more
Inventec has raised its stake in AIO PC manufacturer TPV-Inventa to 90%. TPV-Inventa is a joint venture with TPV, which originally held a 51% stake in the company. Since early September, Inventec has spent $35.4 million to buy up additional shares. It has been said that TPV-Inventa will conduct layoffs after the reorganisation. However, Inventec … Read more
Sources in Taiwan say that Foxconn and Innolux are considering whether to make a joint investment in a new G8.6 production fab in India. The facility, if built, would secure a more fully-featured supply chain in the area, said the sources.
Dish has announced its first UltraHD STB, the 4k Joey. Said to be on the way ‘very soon’, the box can decode HEVC, and supports UltraHD at 60fps over HDMI. It is also capable of connecting to Dish’s Hopper Whole Home Video Network.
An Amazon email, sent to marketplace sellers, has revealed that the retailer will soon stop selling the Apple TV and Google Chromecast. The message said that the decision was taken because these devices do not ‘interact well’ with its own Prime Video streaming service. No new listings for the products will be allowed, and existing … Read more
There are many applications in which the availability of a touchscreen greatly enhances a user’s ability to interact with program content. None-the-less, the smooth surface of a touchscreen makes it less suited for use in conjunction with some tasks such as those in which the user’s eyes are occupied away from the display. To address … Read more
According to news on a Russian website, Microsoft will give away a virtual reality viewer named Microsoft VR Kit at a Moscow hackathon in October of this year. The VR Kit is similar to the Google Cardboard and acts as a virtual viewer by allowing the user to strap their Smartphones in front of their … Read more
Besides the number of big names jumping into the augmented and virtual reality markets, market success has been very limited. Virtual reality has been more of a future thing than a business success today. The biggest name in it all is, of course, Facebook with its subsidiary Oculus aiming at revolutionizing the gaming industry and … Read more
InFocus has appointed Mark Housley, a member of the board since 2009, as the company’s new CEO. Housley will continue to hold his board seat while serving concurrently as CEO. He has previously served as CEO in a number of companies, including Vigilent, Radius and Glimmerglass; he also served on the board of Portrait Displays … Read more
A Swedish entrepreneur, Jonathon Gustafsson, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring a ‘no compromises’ smartphone to the market. The ‘Symetium’ looks like a traditional smartphone. However, it’s real intent is “[to] remove the line between mobile and desktop devices”. The design brief was to create a product with the same level of performance as … Read more
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