Hannspree Takes on ed’System
Hannspree monitors and tablets are now being distributed by ed’System in Slovakia.
HBO’s Cord-Cutter Service Arrives in April
HBO’s standalone streaming service (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 42) will be launched next April. The OTT service will be separate from HBO Go and will target cord-cutters; people will be able to watch without being locked into a rolling subscription.
Heraeus’ Clevios F DH Designed for Temperature-Sensitivity
Heraeus has partnered with DaeHa Mantech of Korea to develop dry heat and UV antistatic and conductive materials. The new materials will be marketed under the name of Clevios F DH (based on PEDOT:PSS). Clevios F DH materials are intended for temperature-sensitive substrates. The formulations have lower drying times and improved temperature stability when used … Read more
Hon Hai, Innolux JV Plant to Supply Apple
Following last week’s announcement that Hon Hai Precision and Innolux are to set-up a joint venture 6G panel production plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, it has emerged that the panels will be used in Apple’s products (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 46). The new plant is expected to begin operations in April 2016 with a monthly … Read more
Imagination Customers to Create ‘Kepler’ Competitor
Imagination Technologies has said that it is working on coherent interconnect technology; this would enable Imagination’s newest multicore MIPS processors to be combined with ‘large arrays’ of its PowerVR GPUs. The intent is to enable the company’s IP customers to create chips that would directly compete with Nvidia’s Kepler and Maxwell devices. “As we go … Read more
Imagination Scales From 16 to 512 Cores
New GPU IP has been introduced by Imagination Technologies. PowerVR Series7 range from 16 to 32 (Series7XE) and up to 512 (Series7XT) arithmetic logic unit (ALU) cores. The GPUs feature full hardware virrtualisation and Android Extension Pack (AEP) support, with hardware tesselation. Each GPU includes features including geometry shaders; PowerVR triple compression (PVR3C) 364 for … Read more
Intel’s New Architecture to Arrive in 2015
Intel has shared part of its product roadmap for the coming year, showing that both Skylake and Broadwell architectures will get attention in the 14nm space. Core M (Broadwell) products will be launched at the end of 2014. By spring, it will take over the product stack currently occupied by Haswell, with fifth-generation Core products … Read more
John Lewis Enjoys Best-Ever Week
Black Friday pushed John Lewis, in the UK, to its best-ever trading week. Sales totalled £179.1 million ($280.4 million), up 21.8% YoY – well above the previous total of £164.4 million ($257.4 million). Online sales were up 42.2%, and 300% in the early hours of the day. Electricals was the best-performing department, with sales rising … Read more
LCFC Targets 15 Million Shipments
LCFC Electronics of China is a Lenovo/Compal joint venture. Asian sources have said that the company expects to ship 15 million notebooks this year. Five million were shipped in Q3 and another 5 million in Q1 and Q2. Next year, the JV aims to ship 20 million units – representing more than 50% of Lenovo’s … Read more
LTPS Production Rising, AMOLED on Sale, a-Si Resolution Up
Trendforce says that major panel makers will continue to add LTPS production lines between 2015 and 2016, with a focus on G5.5 and G6 sizes. By 2016, total area capacity is expected to more than double from its 2013 figure: from 5.8 million m² to 11.7 million m². Japan Display currently has a 30% share … Read more
Media-Saturn Creates Electronics Online Group
Media-Saturn is to create a portfolio of online pure-play companies and concepts under the name Electronics Online Group (EOG), with its existing online business Redcoon as the core. EOG will be led by Martin Smith, founder of Idealo, Germany’s leading comparison portal, who has been named as CEO. The company said that, in addition to … Read more
New Brands Join TCO
European brands, MLS Multimedia and Vecom, have joined TCO Certified. MLS is a Greek company, which has certified its E550 notebook to the TCO Certified Notebooks approval level. Russia’s Vecom has certified its EM2331WIV monitor in the TCO Certified Displays category.
