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Links Week Starting 21st November 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week.  Comcast To Bring Dolby Vision HDR World Cup Coverage To Subscribers Apple Silicon Supports 48-Year-Old Intel 8080 via Secret Extension Vertu, Motorola, Xiaomi eye Korean smartphone market as … Read more

Samsung Electronics Announces Exciting New Ways To Experience Game Streaming

Samsung Electronics announced exciting new ways for gamers to experience game streaming with the addition of new partners and the introduction of game streaming to select 2021 Samsung TV models1 and 4K games, further delivering on its promise of bringing the future of gaming to consumers across the globe. Antstream and Blacknut Joining Samsung’s Game Streaming … Read more

Top-5 notebook brands see shrinking shipments in October

What They Say Digitimes Research reported that the combined shipments in October from the top five notebook brands (excluding Apple) were down 13% from September and nearly 40% down on last year. Lenovo went past HP, but Dell was the only one to grow, but that was because of a weak September. Acer and Asus both … Read more

Premium Smartphone Shipments Grow 29% YoY in Q3 2022 in Key SEA Markets

Premium smartphone (priced more than $400) shipments in the key Southeast Asian markets* increased 29% YoY in Q3 2022, according to Counterpoint Research’s Southeast Asia Monthly Smartphone Channel Share Tracker. On the other hand, total smartphone shipments declined 10% YoY during the quarter. Southeast Asia is still facing macroeconomic headwinds. This has resulted in weak business and consumer … Read more

Vuzix to Introduce its New Award Winning Ultralite Smart Glasses Platform at CES 2023

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, announced that it has been named a CES® 2023 Innovation Awards winner in the Wearable Technology category for Vuzix Ultralite™, a new smart glasses solution which the Company intends to offer as an OEM platform. This is the Company’s nineteenth consecutive year taking … Read more

Omdia: LTPO-AMOLED to Dominate Growth in Sluggish Smartphone Display Market

Omdia’s latest Smartphone display market tracker indicates that LTPO-AMOLED for smartphones will grow by 94% year-on-year (YoY) by the end of 2022 and will maintain growth levels of 25% YoY in 2023 in sluggish smartphone display market. In 2022, Smartphone display demand is decreasing to 1,425 million that fall by 18% YoY due to the reaction to … Read more

India to Standardise on USB Type-C

What They Say The India Times reports that India is to follow the EU in standardising on USB Type-C for electronic devices including smartphones, notebooks and tablets and the regulation could be in place by 2024. Separately, The Verge said, quoting Ming-Chi Kuo that only higher end iPhone 15 models will support faster data through … Read more

UltraHD Forum Updates on the ‘State of the Union’

Yesterday, we reported on the talk by Paul Gray of Omdia at the 4KHDR Summit about the state of the TV market and today we have report on the talk from the same event by Thierry Fautier, past president and chair of the UltraHD Forum. His talk was ‘UltraHD – State of the Union’. Fautier … Read more

Omdia: 12.5m Consumer VR Headsets will be Sold in 2022, with $1.6bn being Spent on VR Content

Consumer virtual reality (VR) will be worth $6.9bn in 2022, increasing to $20bn in 2027, according to Omdia’s Consumer VR Headset and Content Revenue Forecast 2022-2027. In the face of macroeconomic challenges, the market continues to expand, with 12.5 million headsets expected to be sold in 2022, and $1.6bn spent on VR content. With 20 million … Read more

2022 Macroblock Online Symposium | Drive the Metaverse with the Leading Display Technology

Macroblock held the 2022 online symposium, and the theme of this year was “Drive A Whole New World – Metaverse”. This time our lecturers went deep into the metaverse from different applications, including VR headsets, smart cockpits and LED displays. In the speech, they covered how to realize the metaverse concept and how to deal … Read more

MagnaChip Announces its First Power Management IC Designed for OLED IT Displays

OLED driver IC developer MagnaChip has launched its first power management integrated circuit (PMIC) specifically designed for IT devices with OLED displays. A PMIC supplies power to electronic devices, and it is an important component in mobile devices to optimize power consumption. The newly-designed PMIC communicates with a system by using an Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) interface and … Read more