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Worldwide small, medium and large touch panel demand has increased by double- or triple-digits in recent years. It is forecast to have risen 19.1% YoY in 2014 and will grow 15.1%, to 2.1 billion units, this year – according to IHS. Single-digit growth will begin in 2017, as the smartphone and tablet markets become saturated. … Read more
Tag Heuer, the Swiss watch manufacturer, has announced a partnership with Intel and Google to launch a smartwatch based on Android Wear. The watch will be launched this year. Jean-Claude Biver, president of Tag Heuer owner LVMH’s watch division, said that they could have worked with Google or Apple, but asked “[W]hy should we do … Read more
Barco is now offering its Present-P and Present-C Series business projectors, along with ClickShare, through a US distribution agreement with Ingram Micro.
Sharp has issued a further denial to reports in Nikkei this week that it is planning job cuts, capital enforcement and a revised earnings forecast. Nikkei had claimed that Sharp was seeking a ¥200 billion ($1.6 billion) capital injection from its main banks,Mizuho Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, which was ¥50 billion ($410 million) … Read more
Nvidia’s GPU technology Conference took place in the USA recently, with a new flagship GPU (see Product News) announced as well as a brand new architecture. Maxwell is Nvidia’s 10th-generation GPU architecture, and will be succeeded by ‘Pascal’ in 2016. According to Nvidia, Pascal is as much as 10 times faster than Maxwell. Pascal’s design … Read more
E Ink still sells a lot of electrophoretic displays (EPDs) for eReaders but, despite the recent introduction of new and significantly improved eReaders, that is now a mature market. So the company is looking at other categories – such as smartwatches, smartphones and signage – to fuel future growth. There have been interesting design wins … Read more
At a press event in Taipei, Gartner research director Brian Blau stated that the total unit sales for virtual reality, augmented reality and other smart glass apps will grow to 2 million units by 2016 and 5 million in 2017 followed by 8 million in 2018. This includes all head mounted displays. They conclude that … Read more
The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation has released the HSA 1.0 specification, bringing the technology industry one step closer to true heterogeneous computing on platforms spanning mobile devices, desktops, high-performance computing (HPC) systems and servers’. HSA is an architecture that integrates the CPU and GPU on the same bus. Both are used for compute tasks, … Read more
SES’ annual survey of TV reception in Europe shows that Germany – followed by the UK – leads the region in awareness of UltraHD. However, UltraHD TV ownership is (apparently) higher in the UK. More than 1 billion people worldwide now receive TV through SES: 312 million homes wordwide. Of these, 125 million are satellite, … Read more
Wide-spaced LED lighting can suffer from several issues, including hot spots and non-uniform characteristics, said Luminit. These artifacts can become visible on the edge of LED-backlit TVs. Adding more LED lights is an option, although this makes the display or lighting fixture more expensive. California-based Luminit, which specialises in lighting diffusers, has developed a lower-cost … Read more
Microsoft is testing Windows 10 with select users of Xiaomi’s Mi 4 smartphone – which normally runs Android. According to Techcrunch’s sources, Windows is provided as a flashable ROM that effectively overrides Android, turning the phone into a Windows handset. According to a statement, Microsoft is also planning to launch this service for more mobile … Read more
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will be released this summer. The update will be free for users of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 for the first year – and yes, that includes non-genuine copies. The move is thought to be an attempt to address the huge number of pirated copies of Windows … Read more
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