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Altera Ships 20 nm SoCs

February 25, 2015 by Vanessa Browning

Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today strengthened its leadership position in SoC FPGA products by shipping its second-generation SoC family. Arria® 10 SoCs are the industry’s only programmable devices that combine ARM® processors with a 20 nm FPGA fabric. Arria 10 SoCs bring across-the-board improvements to enable higher performing, lower power, and more feature rich embedded … Read more

Vuzix Partners with Pristine to Optimize Smart Glasses Technology for Enterprise

February 25, 2015 by Vanessa Browning

Vuzix® Corporation (Nasdaq: VUZI) (“Vuzix” or, the “Company”), a leading supplier of video eyewear and smart glasses products in the consumer, commercial and entertainment markets, today announced a partnership to utilize Vuzix M100 Smart Glasses for Pristine’s Eyesight platform for the enterprise market. The alliance brings together industry-leading hardware and software to offer one of … Read more

And Finally – MDM Vol 22 09

February 25, 2015 by Tom Allen

Well, the internet DID say the S6 would have three sides… Ever wondered what an all-glass phone would actually look like? Samsung has mocked internet rumour sites with its latest tongue-in-cheek references to the upcoming Galaxy S6. Visitors to the company’s new website (http://tinyurl.com/mq4yzql) can find some fairly extreme concepts – but they’re definitely real. … Read more

And Finally… – Vol 22 11

February 25, 2015 by Tom Allen

Apple was celebrated for adding ‘more diverse’ emojis lately, but the facial features remain resolutely “round eyes” – causing one of our readers to state, “I guess Asians don’t buy Apple products”.

Epson’s Tom Versfelt Named as CRN Channel Chief

February 25, 2015 by Tom Allen

Tom Versfelt, VP of channel and commercial sales at Epson America, has been named on the list of 2015 CRN Channel Chiefs. This list represents IT channel leaders holding direct responsibility for driving revenue and volume growth.

RDK Management Expands DVB Support for Global Operators

February 25, 2015 by Vanessa Browning

RDK Management, LLC announced today that the Reference Design Kit (RDK) now provides additional support for the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) standard that is widely used throughout Europe and other parts of the world. Specifically, in-band DVB Service Information (DVB-SI) elements are now available to the RDK community. The advancement was made possible thanks to … Read more

Merck’s Dammel Takes Frits Zernike Award

February 25, 2015 by Tom Allen

Merck’s Ralph Dammel has received the Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography. Presented at the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference, the award is presented for outstanding accomplishments in microlithographic technology.

Vestel Takes Part in New Fatih Tender

February 25, 2015 by Tom Allen

Vestel took part in a tender for 700,000 tablets recently, as part of Turkey’s Fatih Project. The results of the tender will be announced soon.

Chips&Media Appoints Dream Chip Technologies for European Sales

February 25, 2015 by Helen Vince

Korea’s Chips&Media has appointed Dream Chip Technologies (DCT) in Germany as sales representative for its 4k video technology in Europe. The companies said that DCT will represent Chips&Media’s video cores in Europe offering high performance video encoder and decoder fro 4k resolution to a wide range of key markets. Commenting on the new partnership, Peter … Read more

Chinese Panel Share Rising at Korean Expense

February 25, 2015 by Tom Allen

Sources speaking to Business Korea have said that the Korean panel industry is increasingly being threatened by that of China, due to the Chinese government’s support. The sources said that the combined market share of Chinese companies in the large TFT-LCD market grew from 10.8% to 15% between 2012 and 2014, and is forecast to … Read more

Mediatek Chooses Kopin for Reference Design

February 25, 2015 by Tom Allen

Mediatek has developed a reference design for a pair of wearable smartglasses. Some features are similar to those in Google Glass, although the hardware is based on Mediatek’s MT2502 SoC and a microdisplay from Kopin – mounted on a telescopic rod – rather than the LCoS unit that Google was using. The Linkit platform enables … Read more

Admirable Chooses Broadsign for 265-Screen Rollout

February 25, 2015 by Tom Allen

Admirable, a Hispanic signage network in the USA, has deployed 265 new 42″ screens using Broadsign’s cloud-based software. CTO Kristian Diaz said that Broadsign’s platform was “made for ad-based networks such as our own”.