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Two premium smartphones have been unveiled by Sony. Although designed for the consumer markets, certain features may give them enterprise appeal. Both run Android 5.0. The Xperia C5 Ultra is a 6″ phablet (with 1920 x 1080 resolution and a 0.8mm bezel. It features a 1.7GHz 64-bit octa-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of … Read more
Industry enjoying 6.3% growth for next few years, says JPR The computer graphics industry has been a growth industry since it was established in the late 1970s. It has weathered the storms of recessions and has emerged renewed vigor and potential, partly due to a big boost from mobile and the move to 4K, but … Read more
Since it was established in the 1970s, the computer graphics market has been a growth industry. Recessions have come and gone, but new features and applications – UltraHD, the move to mobile – have continued to propel the market. Jon Peddie Research predicts that the worldwide CG market will grow from a value of $105 … Read more
Pixelligent, a US-based company, has developed OLED lighting materials using its own light extraction materials. The company says that OLED lighting panels using its materials deliver more than twice the amount of light as comparable products. The key ingredient is the Pixclear Zirconia nanocrystal family of high index materials. These can be used as an … Read more
Prolific tipster Evan Blass (aka @EVLeaks) has done it again – this time sharing images of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge Plus smartphones. Blass says that the new Note will have a 5.66″ Super AMOLED display (2560 x 1440). It will run Android 5.1.1 on Samsung’s own Exynos 7420 processor (octa-core, four … Read more
Taiwan’s MIC says that shipments of large-area TFT-LCD panels, for notebooks, monitors and TVs, reached 148.8 million units in Q1’15. This is a 4.1% QoQ fall. Monitor panels slipped the most, by 11.2%, while notebook panels fell 3.1%. MIC writes that notebook vendors had been prompted to build panel inventories since Q2’14, due to concerns … Read more
Asus has said that it accounted for more than half of notebook and desktop PC sales in Taiwan in June. Citing data from an unnamed research firm, Asus said that it had a 50.9% share of the domestic notebook market (compared to 33.1% of its second place rival) and 53.3% in desktops (compared to 34%).
Worldwide semiconductor sales reached $84 billion in Q2’15: a 2% YoY and 1% QoQ increase. Data from the Semiconductor Industry Association shows that global sales in June were $28 billion (up 2% YoY, down 0.4% MoM), and year-to-date sales in the first half of 2015 were up 3.9% YoY. Semiconductor growth has been somewhat slowed … Read more
Xiaomi and Huawei were China’s most popular smartphone vendors in Q2’15, says Canalys. The two companies had market shares of 15.9% and 15.7%, respectively, covering a combined third of the market. The other top vendors were Apple, Samsung and Vivo.
Mediatek has revised its handset-IC shipment target for this year, from 450 million units to 400 million. The company has also cut its tablet-IC target by 10%, to 45 million units. Mediatek suffered a profit and revenue fall in Q2’15, and a longer inventory turnover period – 111 days, compared to 60 days in Q2’14. … Read more
In an interview with the BBC, Microsoft CEO Sataya Nadella, of course, praised the recent release of WIndows 10 as the begin of a journey into a new era. While this may be true for Microsoft from an OS perspective, we should not forget that Microsoft is actually charging nothing for upgrading its OS, hoping … Read more
Matter and Form Inc. (New York, NY) is currently engaged in a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds needed to commercialize the “Bevel.” The Bevel is an attachment for smartphones or tablets that will turn the camera in these devices into one that can capture 3D photographs. A video discussing the Bevel and illustrating the … Read more
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