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Qualcomm has entered into an agreement with China’s Allwinner Technology, to extend the use of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors in the Chinese connected tablet segment. Allwinner will offer system solution services to OEMs and ODMs creating 4G tablets powered by Snapdragon 410 and 210 processors.
Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has undertaken a research project to develop ‘novel’ glasses-free 3D display systems. One of these systems was a 200″ display using super-multi view 3D video technologies and an electronic holography system utilising laser light. The report (paid) is located at http://tinyurl.com/p4kxsxh.
The next version of Google’s 3D-sensing smartphone, Project Tango (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 9), will be driven by a Qualcomm processor. It will be the Snapdragon 810.
Nanosys has received a follow-on investment from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, the venture capital arm of Samsung Group. The additional funds are a follow-on to a 2010 investment and will be used to expand production capacity.
Nanosys says that it is the first quantum dot manufacturer to complete the USA’s Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) New Chemicals Programme review process. Approval of this process enables Nanosys to continue its production scale-up of QDs. Until Nanosys’ approval, all QDs in the USA were manufactured under the EPA’s Low Volume Exemption rule, which only … Read more
DuPont Displays and Kateeva are to join forces to develop optimised inks, equipment and processes to further advance inkjet printing technology for OLED TVs. The companies said that the aim of the collaboration is to establish a proven, cohesive offering for OLED device manufacturers that enables a simpler process for manufacturing OLED TV displays using … Read more
The Q1 global workstation market was seasonally down, but Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports that the decline was ‘substantially deeper’ than normal. Around 912,400 workstations were shipped in Q1’15, equal to an 11.7% QoQ and 3.5% YoY fall. Professional GPU shipments were similarly down, with shipments of just over 1 million units: the lowest industry … Read more
The Geforce GTX 980 GPU, Nvidia‘s newest flagship, is now even more powerful. The company has updated the card in the form of the new GTX 980Ti, with support for UltraHD gaming at an average of 45fps. Nvidia’s Maxwell architecture is used in the card, with support for DirectX 12. The new card also has … Read more
The UK’s Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is running a pilot of Beneq’s roll-to-toll atomic layer deposition (ALD) system. The system, which CPI acquired in 2014, is being used to prepare for producing ultra-barrier films for flexible solar cells, OLEDs and quantum dot films at a lower cost. The pilot process has been in operation … Read more
Kopin has received a production order for its high-brightness colour microdisplays, for use in helmet-mounted displays in the US Navy’s MH-60 helicopters. The number of displays that have been ordered was not disclosed.
Russia’s Yota Devices has created a new tablet device with the same E Ink/TFT screen combination as the Yotaphone, according to local sources. Sergei Chemezov, head of state-owned Rostec (which owns a 25% stake in Yota), told the Vedemosti newspaper, “We are working on a tablet. I’ve already seen it”. One of its features is … Read more
The circular 1.4″ AMOLED display from AUO (AUO Prepares 1.4″ AMOLED For Q2) is now in mass production. It is being produced at the company’s G4.5 LTPS fab in Singapore.
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