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Pixelworks Bring Magic to Mobile – The X7 mobile visual processor

Since the turn of the century, video frame interpolation systems have used motion compensation (MC) and Motion estimation (ME) systems. However, such solutions are not power-efficient and can introduce interpolation errors. Pixelworks, a video alchemist skunk-works in San Jose, has been quietly developing a new, back-end mobile processor that solved those problems for movies; and … Read more

Michigan Allows Digital Licence Plates

What They Say The state of Michigan in the US has passed legislation that allows the use of digital licence plates for cars that are available from Reviver, which is already selling plates in California and Arizona. The plates, called RPlate, come in two models: A battery-powered version is self-installed and comes with a replaceable … Read more

New technique to improve Perovskite QD color conversion performance

What They Say A group from the Beijing Institute of Technology has published a paper in Nano Research that was summarised in Eurekalert on work it has done to develop perovskite quantum dot microarrays for colour conversion. (it’s also available for download here) The QDs were applied with inkjet printing (IJP) and then subject to … Read more

Kulicke and Soffa received new purchase orders f

What They Say In a press release last month (apologies, we missed it at the time!), Kulicke & Soffa said that it has nlw received POs from two different customers for its Luminex laser-based mini and microLED die-transfer solution. (K&S Starts Shipping New MiniLED & MicroLED Equipment) The firm quoted data from TrendForce that 4.7 … Read more

1Q of 2022 OLED Emitting Material Market $420 million, up 9% Compared to the Same Quarter of the Previous Year

According to “2Q22 OLED Emitting Material Market Track”, a quarterly report published by UBI Research, the sales of emitting materials in the first quarter were $421 million, down 21.1% (QoQ) from $533 million in the previous quarter but was an increase by 9% (YoY)when compared to $386 million in the first quarter of 2021. Although … Read more

Links Mid-Week – Week Ending 17th June 2022

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the middle of this week. Would You Buy the World’s First Laptop With an E-Paper Screen? Michael Nugent to head new EBU tech committee Daktronics breaks fiscal year record with $800M in work orders … Read more

Acer Reports May Up 15.4% Month-on-Month

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What They Say Acer said that its revenues were down 10.6% from 2021 in May although up 15.4% on April to $743 million. For the year so far, sales were down 1.3% to $4.02 billion. Business highlights included: Gaming business revenue in May grew 23.0% MoM Chromebook business revenue in May grew 174.5% MoM Acer … Read more