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Computer Graphics Continue Steady Growth

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 Claims to Double OLED Light Output

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

Samsung’s Next Phones Leak Online

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

Q2 Will Reverse Large Panel Declines, Says MIC

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

Chip Sales Enter 26th Month of Growth

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

Microsoft Sees a Five Year Timeframe to Make HoloLens Attractive for Consumers

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

Bevel Will Enable 3D Photography on Smartphones and Tablets

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

Nokia Announces Ozo VR Camera for Professional Users

Conceived at the company’s R&D facilities in Tampere, Finland, Nokia introduced Ozo at a recent event in Los Angeles attended by representatives from major studios, production houses and media and technology companies. OZO is billed as the first commercially available virtual reality camera designed and built for professional content creators. This product is the first … Read more