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Chips&Media Appoints Dream Chip Technologies for European Sales

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

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

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

Valve Challenges Oculus

Valve, the company behind the Steam gaming platform, is developing its own virtual reality product. The company has said that it will show the ‘SteamVR Hardware’ at the Games Developer Conference, which runs between 2nd and 6th March. Analyst Comment If Valve really does intend to launch its own virtual reality headset, then we foresee … Read more

Toshiba’s Satellite is Designed for Entertainment

Continuing its rapid notebook release schedule, Toshiba’s newest model is the Satellite P50-B-11M: a 15.6″ model that functions as a desktop replacement. An Intel Core i7-4720HQ (Haswell) processor runs 64-bit Windows 8.1, while graphics are provided by AMD’s R9 M265X GPU. A 1TB HDD provides storage, with an 8GB of SSHD and 16GB of RAM. … Read more