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VR @ ISTE 2015

Immersive virtual reality has never had a significant footprint at ed-tech conferences—until now. The ISTE 2015 educational conference, with over 21,000 in attendance, is the largest ed-tech conference held in the U.S. Yet the real story underlying this conference begins and ends with some starkly visible trends. One of these trends this year was the … Read more

Sharp Rumours Start Again

Sharp has denied the latest rumours concerning the future of its LCD business. The Yomiuri Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, had reported that the company was considering spinning off its its LCD unit into a joint venture with another company, with Innovation Network Corp of Japan and Hon Hai Precision being named as likely candidates. Earlier … Read more

ZTE Spreads Across the Globe

The message at ZTE’s stand was of a continued expansion into new markets (although still not of the phone that I really want to see in Europe, grumble grumble – TA). First was the Blade V6, the thinnest phone in ZTE’s premium Blade series (6.8mm thick). It has a 5″ display with 1280 x 720 … Read more

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 36

The OnePlus 2 smartphone (OnePlus Plans Second Exclusive Handset) has been launched. However, in keeping with the company’s theme of exclusivity (and to garner more attention), potential customers must register online before being “invited” to buy the phone. The OnePlus 2 has a 5.5″ display (1920 x 1080), an octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor and 3GB … Read more

Huawei Follows Apple With Self-Titled Smartwatch

Huawei has said that the Huawei Watch – an Android Wear device – will be released this month. The unit will feature a 1.4″ circular AMOLED display (400 x 400) (likely to be from AUO), with sapphire crystal glass and wireless charging. A 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor will be built in, and the Watch will require … Read more

CPT Will Deliver Flexible AMOLEDs in 2017

CPT and ITRI agreed the transfer of flexible AMOLED technology and touch panel integration last month (CPT Signs Technology Agreement with ITRI). Now, there are reports that CPT expects to begin mass-production of flexible AMOLED displays by 2017. The company will apparently convert its existing G4.5 pilot line, or somehow integrate it with ITRI’s G2.5 … Read more

AUO’s Flexible AMOLED Makes Appearance

More information has been shared about AUO’s flexible AMOLED prototype, which was seen at Touch Taiwan (High Resolutions Rule Touch Taiwan). The display is a 5″ unit with an integrated touch sensor. It has 1280 x 720 resolution and was made using an LTPS backplane. The frontplane is a top-emission AMOLED, and the substrate is … Read more

Products using VESA Display Stream Compression (DSC) Coming Soon

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The standards organization, VESA, has developed a compression codec that it calls Display Stream Compression (DSC). Now, silicon to support the encoding and decoding of video has been developed and should enable products to enter the market by the early next year. To learn more, we talked with Montreal-based Hardent, which has developed the IP … Read more

FlexTech Alliance Secures $75 Million DoD Funding

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded FlexTech Alliance $75 million in federal funding to establish and manage a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) for Flexible Hybrid Electronics. The award will be made over a five year period and is being matched by more than $96 million in cost sharing from non-federal sources, including the … Read more

Hisense Launches 4K ULED H10 Series Curved Smart TV – 65″ Class

Hisense launched their Hisense 4K ULED H10 Series Curved Smart TV – 65″ Class at an event held at the Edison Ballroom and hosted by NBC Sports commentator Leigh Diffey. ULED is a game-changing LCD display technology from the Chinese electronics company. During the presentation, Hisense made it clear that the ULED TVs were there … Read more