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The Korea Times claims that LG Display intends to establish an OLED TV alliance, in an effort to boost its OLED panel business. CEO Han Sang-beom is quoted as saying, “We are in talks with companies from China, Japan and the United States to create an OLED Alliance”, although he did not share details of … Read more
VESA was at the show to talk about DisplayPort in particular. There is, of course, a lot of interest in the alternate mode for USB-C. We saw a number of USB-type C connectors and cables at the show. VESA told us that it expects to see products using the alt mode (where the USB connector … Read more
Tianma’s OLEDs Looked good and should be here by the end of 2015Tianma was one of only two LCD makers that had meeting rooms on the show floor (the other was Samsung) and had a wide range of displays for mobile devices. The big news is that the company plans to start shipping OLED displays … Read more
Apple® today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro® with Retina® display with the all-new Force Touch trackpad, fifth generation Intel Core processors and Intel Iris Graphics 6100, two times faster flash and longer battery life, bringing even more performance and capabilities to our pro customers. Apple also today updated the 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air® with … Read more
The Eye Tribe showed fruit ninja being played using eye trackingDanish Eye Tracking software company, The Eye Tribe was on the Denmark booth and was showing how its eye-tracking technology could be used in SmartTVs as well as in tablets and smartphones, which it talked about last year. The TV demo showed how content could … Read more
Silicon Image had a booth with several topics as it also housed SiBeam and MHL LLC. Andromium’s dock converts a smartphone into a notebookThe first product that we looked at was a new notebook dock from a new company called Andromium. The company has developed a “guest OS” that sits on top of Android and … Read more
Raon Tech was a new name to us. The company is from Korea and has developed its own LCOS devices that are optimised for near to eye (NTE) applications. The 720P version is 0.5″ and the 1080P version is just 0.55″. The small size is to help with systems integration in NTE applications. VA LCD … Read more
Qualcomm, of course, had a big booth and was showing how its latest processors could be used for depth sensing and two different approaches were being shown – one from Mantis using “structured light” while the SoftKinetic technology used “time of flight”. Qualcomm bought Atheros in 2011 to gain wireless technology, and WiGig developer Wilocity … Read more
Marvell started by showing us the PXA1928 which is the application processor/SoC that is being used in Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone (The Project Ara Smartphone Moves Towards Implementation). The chip is based on the Cortex-A53 Arm design running at 1.5GHz in a quad core configuration and supports LTE radio architecture. Staff told us that … Read more
Lenovo had lots to show us and we had a whistlestop tour of the booth. The Mgo 300 is an entry level 8″ Windows tablet running Windows 8.1 and using an Intel BayTrail processor. It sells for $149 and is said to have a 7 hour battery life. There were a couple of nice tablets, … Read more
In the OLED Display Technology Shoot-out published today, Displaymate Labs said Samsung once again has leapfrogged its generational OLED display performance with its new flagship flexible curved screen Galaxy S6 Edge and Galaxy S6 2.5K QHD smartphone displays. Samsung Galaxy S6 Image Contrast and Intensity Scales closely match the standard Gamma 2.2 scale as illustrated … Read more
Intel was, unsurprisingly, highlighting the Spectre X360 on its booth. The company was also talking about its support of EMBMS and Multicast video which it can support via its 7260 modem platform. It was demonstrating the technology in collaboration with Ericsson’s core network group and had three services and live communications running simultaneously. The main … Read more
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