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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.
Merck’s OLED unit VP, Udo Heider, is “pretty confident” that Samsung will begin to produce OLED TVs again. Samsung denied rumours that it will take up OLEDs again earlier this year (Samsung Denies OLED Rumours, Considers G10). In an interview with the Korea Times, Heider made the prediction based on the falling cost of OLED … Read more
Image credit: The Inquirer While many companies had lots to show at Computex, some remained quiet, sharing only a little information – or at least, little relevant to the display industry. Eyevis focused on the new features of v7.2 of its iChannel software: an on-site digital signage software solution. Features include a playlist editor, widgets … Read more
This year’s OVAB Digital Signage Conference, in Munich, will take place on the 10th – 11th September, at the Hilton Munich Airport (we plan to attend the event – TA).
A Taiwanese startup has shown a revolutionary smartwatch called the Noodoe at Computex – because it has no features. At all. Well, ok, there is one: it uses a wearer’s own imagination to tell the time. ‘Camera Brush’ is the smartwatch’s USP. A drawing is captured with a smartphone camera, using the Noodoe app. Elements … Read more
This is a tale of highs and lows. A woman in the USA recently took several boxes of her departed husband’s possessions along to a recycling centre in California. Unknown to her, one of the boxes contained an Apple 1 computer – one of only 200 ever made. The company running the tip, CleanBayArea, went … Read more
Skyworth has announced that it using Realtek’s chips in its UltraHD HDR TVs. Around 30% of Skyworth’s TVs shipped this year (the company is aiming to 13.2 million units) will use Realtek’s devices, said company president Yang Dongwen.
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