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Toshiba had its usual stand but now that we’re covering both mobile and large displays, practically everything that the firm was showing was of interest – we were in the hall around 90 minutes, even though we didn’t spend a huge time on any single product! We first looked around the TVs where the Cevo … Read more
The 3D Innovation Center (3D IC) is a facility in Berlin that came out of the Fraunhofer organisation and held an event to celebrate its second birthday. This was the first time that we had been able to attend an event at the facility, which was intended to be a central location for companies that … Read more
Always a big event at IFA, Showstoppers this year was again a great place to go for food, drink and networking. Oh, and a few new products! The showcase takes place in Hall 15 of Messe Berlin and remained a busy throng up to and past 11pm. Launching a new processor platform at IFA called … Read more
IFA 2014 was the show’s 90th anniversary. The total area of the event was up 3% from 2013, with the adoption of the CityCube Berlin; an expansion that added an extra 12,000m
Barco plans to demonstrate its new Orion Cinemascope home projector – an HDBaseT model to mark the company’s entry into the HDBaseT Alliance. The Orion Cinemascope combines 2560 x 1080 resolution, a 1DLP chip, 3D and high framerates (Barco did not provide an exact figure). It is a lamp-based model that can be positioned up … Read more
We were told at IFA that Epson would be launching a very high-end laser projector at CEDIA, and details were made available just before the show began. It turned out that our source had left out a bit of information – there were two projectors, it turned out! The Powerlite Pro Cinema LS10000 is a … Read more
AT Computers in the Czech Republic is now distributing AOC monitors.
According to the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor, UK retail sales last month were up 1.3% on a like-for-like basis from August 2013 and 2.7% on a total basis, the best performance since January. Online sales of non-food products in the UK grew 19.8% in August compared to a year earlier, the highest online growth … Read more
Demand has been growing for ARM’s 64-bit v8-A processors, the company has said. It has recently signed its 50th licensing agreement to produce chips based on the architecture. The licences, with 27 partners, are said to be for tablet, smartphone and enterprise chips.
Imagination Technologies has refreshed the ageing MIPS architecture with a new 64-bit processor, the MIPS I6400. It is a multi-core SoC with integrated graphics and simultaneous multithreading; up to four threads per core, simultaneously, supporting clusters of up to six cores. The firm says that this design enables each core in a cluster to possess … Read more
A launch of Google’s Android One initiative, which aims to unify the fragmented OS in entry-level smartphones, may be approaching. Invitations have been sent to an event in India on 15th September. Google has three confirmed vendor partners in the country (Micromax, Karbonn and Spice). Combine that with the fact that Android One is aimed … Read more
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