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Worldwide semiconductor sales rose almost 5% YoY in April, the Semiconductor Industry Association has said. Although a 0.4% fall MoM, sales were up to $27.6 billion, from last year’s $26.3 billion. The Americas, with double-digit growth, led all other regions. April’s result was the 24th straight month of rising semiconductor sales, largely thanks to the … Read more
Taiwan’s major ODM notebook manufacturers posted mixed results in May. Compal reported a 4.7% month on month increase in sales to NT$64.5 billion ($2.1 billion), though this was down 5% year on year. Year to date sales reached NT$324.5 billion ($10.5 billion), which was 9.7% up on the same period of last year. Compal shipped … Read more
Broadcom’s new chip, for home gateways and UltraHD STBs, is said to raise UltraHD video decode efficiency, with a 25% reduction in bandwidth use (compared to Broadcom’s previous generation). As well as raising decode efficiency, the BCM7445S supports Google’s VP9 codec at 60fps. Operators can thus leverage the chip to introduce UltraHD at high frame … Read more
UK-based outside broadcast service provider, Timeline, has built what it says is the first purpose-built UltraHD outside broadcast truck (OBT) in Europe. The company has won a four-year contract from BT Sport to provide its new OBT to the broadcaster. Timeline will launch the unit in August; it will be available for rental when not … Read more
Click to enlargeAfter trials at the FIFA Women’s World Cup (NHK tests 8k at World Cup), NHK has said that it will be capturing more sporting events in 8k this year. Several Major League Baseball matches and the 2015 Superbowl will be recorded using the format.
Sigma Designs Inc. narrowed its first quarter net loss to $382,000 from $9.9 million in Q1 of last year, while turnover increased 51.6% to $55.9 million from $36.9 million in the previous year.
The digital TV market grew by about 455 million homes between 2010 and 2014, according to Digital TV Research. The increase means that there are now more than 1 billion digital TV households across the 138 countries covered by DTVR. Penetration rose from 40.5% to 67.2%. 111 million of the new homes came from a … Read more
Optical bonding is one of the best ways to reduce reflections from a display and provide high contrast, full color viewing – even in high ambient light environments. But not all bonding methods are created equal. Rockwell Collins appears to have one of the better approaches and it stepped up its game a bit at … Read more
The end game for most display enthusiasts is an electronic holographic display that provides no-glasses 3D viewing with high resolution and vertical and horizontal parallax. In other words – a display that is so good you might not be sure if it is real or not. The path to a true electronic holographic display (not … Read more
SeeFront is a German company we have tracked for a number of years. The company develops eye-tracked autostereoscopic 3D displays for commercial applications. At SID 2015, we had a chance to catch up again and found out that it is doing quite well with a sales volume “in the 4 digits.” That’s impressive. Perhaps its … Read more
The 1-chip DLP engine design uses two back-to-back prisms to allow light to couple light in and out of the DMD chip. The design is quite mature but it has an inherent contrast limitation. A revised design evaluated by The National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan was described in paper 35.4. The new paper builds … Read more
One of the technologies that JVC has focused on is its e-Shift technology. This uses an optical element to project one image and then shift the optical path a half pixel in the diagonal direction to project a second image. This is done at a 120 Hz rate or 60 fps per combined image. The … Read more
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