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Adversign Claims 21.5″ is ‘Tablet’

Germany’s Adversign has developed a ‘tablet’ for small signage applications. We use quote marks because the product is a bit bigger than your normal handheld… Adversign argues that consumers are used to seeing and using small (7″ – 10″) displays, although this is too small for signage. Most signage screens start at 32″; the company … Read more

Maxwell Extends to Laptops

Last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37), Nvidia introduced the GTX 970 and GTX 980 desktop GPUs, based on the new Maxwell architecture (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 8). Now, the company has ushered in Maxwell-based notebook cards: the GTX 970M and GTX 980M. Nvidia claims that Maxwell shrinks the performance gap between these … Read more

‘Crumpled’ Graphene Used in Stretchable Supercapacitor

A research team in the USA has devised a way to create a stretchable supercapacitor, which can be used to store large amounts of energy. ‘The development of flexible electronic devices, such as wearable or implantable biomedical sensors or monitoring devices, will require flexible power-storage systems’, writes MIT, which was involved in the project. To … Read more

Microvision Nets $1.9 Million in Orders

Pico projection technology specialist Microvision says it has received purchase orders to the value of $1.9 million for components for high definition display modules being developed by its Fortune Global 100 customer. Microvision announced last April that it had signed a development agreement with the un-named company, which was described as an OEM “electronics giant” … Read more

ARM and TSMC Celebrate Big.Little on FinFET

The results of a silicon validation of ARM’s Big.Little chip architecture, showing performance improvements, have been announced. The validation used ‘Big’ Cortex-A57 and ‘Little’ Cortex-A53 processors on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET (16FF) process technology. The ‘Big’ core reached 2.3GHz for sustained mobile peak performance and the ‘Little’ core was shown to consume just 75mW for ‘most … Read more

Samsung Keeps 14nm Details Close to Chest

A 14nm FinFET device was shown by Samsung at ARM TechCon earlier this month. While the company was not sharing any information about the chip, a mobile application processor was shown decoding HD video on a handset and a TV at the same time. According to Samsung, the 14nm process is fully qualified and in … Read more