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Maxlinear has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Entropic Communications for approximately $287 million. The company said that the acquisition will broaden MaxLinear’s analogue/mixed-signal business, including bringing new customer relationships in MaxLinear’s most recent growth area, the satellite pay-TV market. Entropic also holds a portfolio of approximately 1,500 issued and pending patents. The transaction is expected … Read more
Sub-Saharan African pay-TV revenues will climb from $3.54 billion last year to $6.22 billion in 2020, says Digital TV Research (DTVR). Revenues will be $4.12 billion, up from $1.73 billion, excluding South Africa. Satellite TV is the most common reception method, with a 92% market share last year. Of 12.92 million pay-TV subscribers, 9.65 million … Read more
Five companies have signed up to use Digitaleurope’s UltraHD TV logo, unveiled at IFA 2014 (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 35). LG, Panasonic, Sony, Philips and Samsung will begin to use the logo, which shows that a TV has 3840 x 1260 resolution, meets the Rec.709 standard and supports refresh rates between 24fps and 60fps, … Read more
Since the introduction of mobile devices, their use has been spreading from adults to the younger generation. In the US and many other countries this development has on the one hand created an increase in device sales, especially for smartphones, but at the same time increased accessibility of such devices to small children. The use … Read more
Eyevis always has lots to show us and this year’s ISE was no exception. We started by looking at the new DLP-based “Slim-cubes” which are 50″ 1920 x 1080 FullHD sets which are just 422mm deep, said to be the thinnest in the world. Brightness is 370 cd/m². The cubes are designed to allow access … Read more
ARM announced a suite of IP that will enable a new standard for premium experiences on 2016 mobile devices. At the heart of this suite is the ARM Cortex-A72 processor, which is the highest performing CPU technology available for developing mobile SoCs today. In target configurations, the Cortex-A72 processor will deliver CPU performance that is … Read more
FlexEnable’s OLED display reaches a 60Hz refresh rate and has a 0.25mm bend radiusFlexEnable, the new Cambridge-based company spun off of Plastic Logic (Plastic Logic Divides into Two Companies), claims that its work will enable flexible display production by the end of 2015. FlexEnable’s technology enables the printing of plastic electronic circuits onto flexible films, … Read more
Tech Data Mobile Solutions in France is now distributing MTT rugged mobile phones.
NEC Display Solutions has appointed Russell Davis as the company’s new corporate sales director for the UK and Benelux region. Davis joins the company from Samsung where he most recently held the position of general manager in sales.
BenQ has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Colour Confidence for its PG2401PT colour critical monitor. The company will offer the monitor in the UK, Poland, France, the Nordics and Spain.
Mitsubishi has named Germany’s Distec as its best TFT-LCD distributor, for its ‘outstanding’ sales performance.
Sony says it expects to record an annual net loss this year of ¥170 billion ($1.4 billion), a considerable improvement on the company’s previous forecast of a net loss of ¥230 billion ($1.9 billion). Sony cited a weaker yen and improving smartphone sales for the revision and also reported that third quarter net profit had tripled from … Read more
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