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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
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
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
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
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
During the Snapdragon Summit 2022, trinamiX GmbH, a leader in biometric solutions, announced the first demonstration of behind-OLED face authentication running on the latest Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Reference Design. The optimized solution runs fully invisible behind the device’s OLED display, while also setting highest biometric security standards for future smartphones. The solution combines easy … Read more
This week the 4KHDR Forum in Spain held its annual long summit – it lasts the week! I picked a couple of talks to listen to online that I thought would be of most interest. Paul Gray of Omdia is always worth a listen and he spoke about what is happening in the TV market. … Read more
What They Say Yesterday we reported on the leak about a new HTC headset (New HTC Headset Leaked?). After the video that we reported went online, the creator was contacted with more information. The extra information: The headset will use a Qualcomm XR2 Gen 1 chip There will be a depth sensor with the RGB … Read more
What They Say Qualcomm has a new chip series, the AR2 Gen 1 that is intended for use in smartglasses. The processor, co-processor, and Wi-Fi 7 system combo is said to take up 40% less PCB space than the earlier XR2 reference design. Features include Support for up to 9 concurrent cameras Wi-Fi 7 with claimed … Read more
What They Say A group of engineers in China has disassembled an iPhone X and re-assembled it using a Motorola Razr folding mechanism to create a kind of ‘foldable iPhone’. There’s a 17 minute video in Chinese online here. What We Think So, if Apple is not ready to make one, yet, we’ll do it … Read more
What They Say Nvidia’s results for Q3 of its financial yeat to the end of October, with revenue down 17% YoY and 12% QoQ to $5,931 with margin also down 11.6 points from last year to 53.6% (but up on Q2’s 43.5%). Net incom was down from $2.46 billion last year to $680 million this … Read more
What They Say BASF spin-off, Trinamix GmbH said at the Snapdragon Summit that it has certified face recognition technology for smartphones that can sit behind an OLED and is included in a Qualcomm reference design using the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip. trinamiX said that its Face Authentication was certified according to the International Internet … Read more
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