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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
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
BMW has presented its Supplier Innovation Award to Corning, for its ‘Gorilla Glass for Automotive’ product. BMW uses the glass in its i8 vehicle.
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
Tech Data’s mobile division is now distributing unlocked iPhone 4S, 5 and 5C models through its reseller network in Spain, for Apple.
Ingram Micro Mobility has added Kazam smartphones to its portfolio. The company is now distributing the devices in Italy and Poland.
Xiaomi has chosen Agora in the Czech republic as a new distributor for its smartphones.
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
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
Advantech is apparently seeking a partnership with Haier to develop Internet of Things products, say sources in the upstream supply chain.
A new G6 LTPS facility has been opened by China Star Optoelectronics in China. CNY16 billion ($2.6 billion) was invested in the line. Around 30,000 high-end small- and medium-size LTPS panels will be produced monthly, say sources, rising to 88 million per month by the end of 2016.
The Wall Street Journal says that production of Apple’s 12.9″ iPad Pro has been delayed. Difficulties producing enough new iPhones to meet demand will apparently delay the tablet. Mass-production was scheduled for December (Bloomberg claimed earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 34) that the tablet would reach the market in early 2015).
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