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Samsung’s 14″ OLED Panel Suggests Laptop at IMID

The International Meeting of Information Display (IMID) exhibition took place in Korea recently, with a range of products on show from both LG Display and Samsung Display. According to local media, SDC was due to show a particularly interesting panel: a 14″ OLED unit, covering 100% sRGB. It was said to have 2560 x 1440 … Read more

Core-M Arrives on Lenovo’s Yoga Lineup

Intel’s latest chip series, the Core-M line (previously known as Broadwell-Y, Display Monitor Vol 21 No 1), is designed to make convertible laptops thinner and lighter. Lenovo’s 13.3″ Thinkpad Yoga 3 is one of the first models to use the technology, with a chassis that is 14% lighter and 17% thinner than the previous generation: … Read more

Dell Boosts Laptop Speeds for Gamers

Dell’s Alienware brand targets gamers: an audience emphasised by the new Alienware 18 laptop. Overclocked to 4.4GHz (Intel Core i7 Haswell processor), the product runs very quickly. A new thermal solution (copper heatsinks and three exhaust vents) was developed to handle the heat output. Intel’s Smart Cache shares the cache memory in the CPU and … Read more

Emagin Receives $6.8 Million in R&D Contracts

Emagin says it has been awarded three new R&D contracts totalling $6.8 million. One of the three new contracts is a $1.1 million contract over 15 months to further enhance the full colour brightness of its recently demonstrated ultra-high-brightness microdisplay products. Details regarding the other two contracts will be released at a future date. Andrew … Read more

iPhone 6 Boosts ODM’s Revenues

Foxconn Electronics and Pegatron both reported large increases in sales for September, rising 51% and 63% respectively from August, primarily due to shipments of Apple’s new iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. Foxconn’s sales of NT$415.4 billion ($13.6 billion) was 23% higher year on year and brought sales for the third quarter to NT$950.5 … Read more

Lenovo to Set-Up Online Phone Firm in China

Lenovo says it will establish a dedicated mobile phone company in China to sell its devices online. The new company, which will not carry the Lenovo brand or name, will become operational on 1st April 2015 and is being set up to help Lenovo attack the fast growing consumer mobile device market in China. Lenovo … Read more

Qualcomm to Buy CSR for $2.5 Billion

Qualcomm announced this week that it has reached agreement with CSR to acquire the UK firm for a cash consideration of approximately $2.5 billion. Qualcomm said that the acquisition complements its current offerings by adding products, channels and customers in the important growth categories of Internet of Everything (IoE) and automotive infotainment. CSR, formerly known … Read more

Mediatek’s Platform Speeds Time-to-Market

Mediatek’s new smartphone platform, the MT6735, is a 64-bit device designed to speed products’ time-to-market. The MT6735 Mainstream Worldmode Smartphone Platform, to give it its full name, aims at ‘mid-range’ price points. It incorporates four 1.5GHz quad-core processors Cortex-A53 ARM processors (64-bit) amd am ARM Mali-T720 GPU. A 4G modem – supporting all global LTE … Read more