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The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) has not been around for long – it was established this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 28). It could be seen as a bad sign, therefore, that founding member Broadcom has left the group over an IP disagreement. Stacey Higginbotham of Gigaom broke the news after noting that Broadcom’s … Read more
Earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 13), Mitsubishi Chemical and Pioneer began to mass-produce OLED lighting modules, made with a wet-coating system. However, these had a lifespan of 15,000 hours. Mitsubishi has now developed panels with twice the lifetime – 30,000 hours – by changing the composition of the panel’s materials. OLED materials … Read more
Nanoco has signed a 12-month agreement with Osram, to supply quantum dots (QDs) for LED lighting. LED lights are generally less ‘warm’ than incandescent bulbs, but are very long-lasting. QDs are a way to solve this, but their use of a toxic heavy metal, cadmium, has prevented their use. Nanoco’s QDs are produced without any … Read more
Samsung has said that it will commercalise 60GHz wireless products next year. Data transmission speeds are as much as five times faster than today’s Wi-Fi (4.6Gbps). A 1GB film can be transferred in ‘less than three seconds’. Display Daily Comments Samsung implied that the technology, based on the 802.11ad standard, was new and developed in-house. … Read more
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
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’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
Amazon’s new Fire HD tablets use Mediatek processors, it has been announced. The Fire HD 6, Fire HD 7 and Fire HD Kids Edition (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37) use the MT8135 SoC and MT6628 connectivity chip.
Luxury phone brand Vertu has partnered with car manufacturer Bentley to produce a new – and expensive – smartphone. For slightly less than the deposit on a small house (
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
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
Japan Display (JDI) has issued a revised forecast for this year and said it now expects to record a net loss of
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