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Spin Digital announced the availability of the first version of a real-time VVC/H.266 encoder designed for live UHD (4K and 8K) streaming and broadcasting applications. The new VVC encoder can reduce the bitrate at the same or better quality than a state-of-the-art UHD HEVC live encoder while, at the same time, providing the performance required … Read more
What They Say Highlighting a research report from Ampere Analysis, Protocol Entertainment dug into the tough coming year for the games business, especially console makers Microsoft and Sony. What We Think As I have mentioned a couple of times, Omdia’s Paul Gray has highlighted the potential of cloud gaming and Ampere shows it growing by … Read more
A display based on NPQD® R1 Micro LED chip goes into mass production after a joint test made by the group and Saphlux, Inc., in which the group invested. The first display using quantum dot Micro LED chip represents a major breakthrough expected to speed up commercialization of Micro LED display technology. Micro LED is … Read more
What They Say Leyard in China put out a press release highlighting that it has put into mass production a display based on the NPQD R1 MicroLED device developed with Saphlux (in which Leyard has a 12% interest). The press release was not clear on the exact products to be made with the chip, but … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. Philips launches 2022 LCD TVs with Android 11, Game Bar Is This the Best Semiconductor Ever? Cubic boron arsenide may be the best possible one iiyama: New signage displays … Read more
What They Say China-based Apple wannabe, Xiaomi, has new AR glasses in a series that it is calling Mijia (a name also used for other products). There is a single display and dual cameras (50mp + 8mp periscope). The display is a microOLED from Sony with 3,281 ppi and up to 3,000 cd/m² of luminance. … Read more
What They Say The BBC reported that conjoined twins in Brazil were successfully separated with the surgical team in Brazil being joined by specialists in London connected to the operating theatre using virtual reality. The operation took twenty seven hours and was complicated by scar tissue from a previous operation. The surgeons were informed by … Read more
What They Say We published a pointer to an article about the UCIe chip interface New Chip Interconnect is ‘Incredibly Important’ back in the spring. Notable as missing from the long list of the chip ‘great and good’ were Nvidia and Apple. Now the consortium behind the standard has said that it has added Nvidia … Read more
What They Say Asus will be at IFA to launch its Zenbook 17 Fold, a 17.3″ 1920 x 2560 (3:4) notebook that can also operate as dual landscape displays. The display is certified to DisplayHDR TrueBlack 500 with 500 cd/m² of output and with 100% of DCI-P3 and Pantone validation. It has a glossy surface. … Read more
What They Say Congratulations to Hannstar that actually got to a profit in Q2 of $630K although revenues were down by 9% from Q1 at $150 million with a gross margin of 11%. Second-quarter shipments increased 1.1% on quarter to reach 4.076 million 19-inch equivalent panels, with the ASP at $38 said Digitimes. The company … Read more
What They Say Scientists at Stanford have developed a “foveated” compression system that works in conjunction with gaze tracking to deliver two streams of video data at lower resolutions for non-foveal and higher for the fovea with a latency of just 14ms from eye movement to the generated image. This is in contrast to the … Read more
What They Say Skyworth has introduced new VR headset that use, as you would guess from the name, pancake optics instead of fresnel lenses so that the weight is just 189gms. The Pancake 1Pro headset uses a Qualcomm XR2 platform and has the firm’s own 6DoF VSLAM technology. The displays are miniLED LCDs with 2280 … Read more
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