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STMicroelectronics’ New Chip Boosts Energy Efficiency in Consumer Electronics

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, is enhancing the sustainability of personal computing with its latest innovation. The new chip, called ST-ONE, sets to increase energy efficiency in a wide variety of ac-dc adapters, fully compliant with USB-PD 3.1, including laptop and smartphone chargers. New adapters built with … Read more

Kopin Subsidiary Secures $1 Million Order from Nexstar Technology (South Korea)

Kopin Corporation, a leading developer of innovative wearable computing technologies and solutions, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Forth Dimension Displays Limited (ForthDD), has secured a $1 million production order from Nexstar Technology Co., Ltd. (Nexstar), headquartered in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The order is to provide Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) for Nexstar’s new Nexman … Read more

Sony To Reveal New Hardware Next Week, But Not A Console – Report

What They Say Sony is reported to be developing two monitors for gaming on the PS5 – with one said to be supporting UltraHD at 144Hz/DisplayHDR 600 and the other described as supporting FullHD at 240Hz/DisplayHDR 400. The monitors are reported to support VRR and with 1ms response time. There should be ‘gaming assist features’. … Read more

JBD Tops out Hefei Fab

What They Say We missed it a couple of weeks ago, but have now seen a press release from Jade Bird Display (JBD) about the topping out of a fab facility in Hefei, China to make microLEDs. The factory has got to the stage of ‘roof sealing’. The plant covers 79 acres (32 Hectares) and … Read more

SDC Swapping OCA for OCR

What They Say The Elec reported that Samsung Display (SDC) is switching to using optically clear resin (OCR), which is a liquid, instead of optically clear adhesive (OCA), which it uses in a film form in its foldable OLEDs with the aim of reducing cost. The OCA is said to take longer to place than … Read more

GCC Smartphone Market Suffers Declines as Demand Continues to Weaken

Newly released data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that shipments of mobile phones to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region declined 0.8% quarter on quarter (QoQ) in Q1 2022 to total 6.10 million units. Smartphone shipments were up 0.4% QoQ to 5.47 million units, while feature phone shipments decline 9.8% over the … Read more

Boxlight Launches New MimioPro 4 Interactive Display

Boxlight Corporation, a leading provider of interactive technology, digital signage, classroom audio, and services, announces the launch of their newest model of interactive display – MimioPro 4. The MimioPro 4 interactive display is designed to help educators optimize their educational technology ecosystem with features and tools to enhance learning, maximize collaboration and communication, and support … Read more

Samsung Battens Down the Hatches

Yesterday, DSCC’s Bob O’Brien published a blog article that revealed that Samsung has told all its business groups to suspend purchases and control their inventory status. Samsung has informed flat panel display makers in smartphone and TV markets that panel purchases will be halted. As Samsung makes more TVs and smartphones than anybody else, that’s … Read more

Meta shows its AR/VR work

What They Say Meta has been talking about what its Reality Labs division is working on. The projects are: “Butterscotch” is a ‘near retina’ display with 1832 x 1920 pixels per eye, but just about 55 pixels per degree and a 55° FOV (compared with around 110° on Quest 2) ‘Starburst’ can support 20K nits … Read more