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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) says it is reducing its capital expenditure budget this year by $1 billion to $11 billion, because of disappointing demand for smartphone chips this quarter. Last week Intel also revised down its capex plans by $1.3 billion to $8.7 billion. TSMC’s co-CEO, Mark Liu said that despite a “challenging” environment, the … Read more
The next iPhone will use the same Force Touch technology as is featured on the Apple Watch, say Taiwanese panel makers. The sources say that Apple is experimenting with the placement of the sensor, which will be supplied by TPK and GIS. It will either be between the outermost protective screen cover and the in-cell … Read more
Touch panel orders for Asus’ Zenfone smartphones will be moved from O-Film back to makers in Taiwan, say sources in the country. The new suppliers will include JTouch, TPK and Young Fast Electronics. O-Film has apparently struggled to achieve the quality that Asus demanded.
In a setback for the laser projection industry, the FDA has not taken the advice of industry experts and has issued a tentative ruling that many view does not go far enough in removing roadblocks for the smooth roll-out of laser-based projection solutions. On February 18, 2015 it published new guidance on laser illuminated projectors. … Read more
At the Technology Summit for Cinema, Frederik Zilly of Fraunhofer IIS told a very interesting story about the making of their first movie using light field production techniques. Over the last couple of years, his team has developed the technology for light field capture and processing using a 4×4 array of cameras creating short stop … Read more
Eizo has a new feature on the color calibrating 4K monitors that allows the operator to see what colors are out-of-gamut. This was demonstrated by playing 2020 graded content into two identical monitors, both calibrated for Rec. 709. One showed the transform from the 2020 grade to the 709 grade. The other overlaid a gray … Read more
NAB 2015 was the first place that JVC showed new High Dynamic Range (HDR) monitors it has in development. On display was a 70″ and a 32″, both based on rear projection architectures.
Astro Design used NAB 2015 to show off what it believes is the world’s first 55″ 8K resolution display.
During this past week, there was patent activity that indicates a continuing interest on the part of major cellphone makers in devices that can be mechanically switched from a conventional flat form to a wearable, bracelet format. Backing up just a bit, an early patent application related to this technology was filed by Apple in … Read more
The OLED Association has released news about a new 5.5″ AMOLED display presented to the organisation by Tianma. According to the article the new AMOLED display comes with full HD resolution, a first for any mobile OLED display made in China. Source: OLED Association The report claims that is has been difficult for OLED makers … Read more
ARRIS Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ARRS) (ARRIS) and Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) (Charter) announced today that they established a joint venture that has agreed to acquire ActiveVideo® for approximately $135 million. ARRIS will own 65% of the joint venture company and will be the sales channel for ActiveVideo’s CloudTV platform. Closing of the transaction is … Read more
We spoke in a telephone interview with Phil Gaut of Samsung UK about the recent release of the firm’s curved desktop monitors (Samsung Brings its Curve to Europe) These were launched a couple of weeks ago with the support of a document endorsed by Prof. Stephen Westland, Professor of Colour Science at the University of … Read more
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