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Intel to Buy Altera for $16.7 Billion

Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Altera in an all-cash transaction which values the deal at $16.7 billion. This is the second major semiconductor acquisition in days, following the sale of Broadcom to Avago last Friday (Avago to Buy Broadcom for $37 Billion). The acquisition will couple Intel’s products and manufacturing processes with … Read more

NHK Achieves 98% of Rec.2020

Japan’s NHK showed a 50″ LCD display with a laser backlight and ‘very wide’ colour gamut at its Open House event last month, says the Nikkei. According to NHK’s Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL), the display ‘has the widest colour gamut in the world at this point’: 98% of Rec.2020. Left: BT.2020 coverage. Right: … Read more

Ultra HD Blu-ray Authoring Group Formed

The new Ultra HD Blu-ray specs have been approved and new players and content are expected by the end of the year. But authoring UHD Blu-ray content is more complex than HD, so a new focus group has been formed to share information to help accelerate the learning curve to enable as much content to … Read more

Educational 3D Bits and Bytes

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It seems there is no let up in the rain here in Colorado during our ‘monsoon’ season, but at least the landscape is in full bloom with beautiful hues of green. Events and developments in educational 3D also seem to be blooming at a healthy pace. Here’s some rapid-fire news from the educational 3D world: … Read more

PC Shipments Will Continue To Decline in 2015 as Competing Devices Continue To Pressure PC Demand

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to fall by -6.2% in 2015 according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. This will be the fourth consecutive year of declining volume as the PC market continues to struggle with competition from tablets and smartphones and generally low demand. The market almost saw stable shipments … Read more

FlexEnable Announces Breakthrough in Manufacturability, Cost and Performance for Flexible Displays

FlexEnable, the leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible electronics, is announcing a technology breakthrough for the manufacture of full colour, organic liquid crystal displays (OLCD), making the manufacture of glass-free LCDs both practical and cost-effective for the first time. FlexEnable has developed the only technology that enables the manufacture of a TFT array … Read more

Smart AR Glasses Shipments to Surpass 12 Million Units Between 2015-2020

The smart augmented reality (AR) glasses market is a combination of different technologies, from simple head-up displays (HUDs) like Google Glass that act as a second screen, readily accessible with a glance, displaying text or images, to more complex holographic display technologies like the Microsoft HoloLens or Magic Leap that provide immersive and tangible experiences. … Read more

AMD Takes Responsibility for 1535 Broadway

AMD has revealed that the massive digital sign unveiled in Times Square last year (New Times Square LED Sign Could Be Largest in the World) is driven by its own Firepro professional graphics cards. The LED screen, which has 10048 x 2368 resolution, uses three graphics cards: each responsible for six sections of the display. … Read more

Volfoni Forgets Cardinal Rule of Advertising

Volfoni is really gunning for RealD, having officially welcomed a patent invalidation in China. China’s Patent Re-Examination Board declared that RealD’s UM patent CN 203433207U did not bring enough novelty and innovation to the market. The move follows another patent invalidation in Russia earlier this year, for the same reasons. Comment This goes completely against … Read more