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Unity Cites Considerable Eye-Tracking Advantages With PS VR2 

What They Say The Reality Check from The Information reported that at the recent Game Developers’ Conference, software engine developer Unity went into some detail about the improvements that dynamic foveated rendering could make to the performance of Sony’s forthcoming PlayStation VR2 headset. In a demo it showed a 14% improvement in frame rendering time … Read more

Huawei Suffers in 2021

What They Say Huawei saw its revenue drop by 28.5% in 2021 to $99.9 billion with consumer sales (including smartphones) down 50%. Wearables were actually up by 30% along with smart speakers, and, bizarrely it seemed to us, its profit went up 76% to $17.8 billion. HarmonyOS was used in over 220 million Huawei devices … Read more

DSCC Report Reveals Advanced Monitor Market Rose 397% in 2021 – 241% Growth is Expected in 2022 Fueled by 42” WOLED, 34” QD-OLED and 27” MiniLEDs

What They Say DSCC published extracts from its Advanced IT Display Market report on monitors (after tablets last week) and forecast 241% growth in the market for OLED and miniLED devices. Although both grew, in 2021, panel procurement for MiniLED models outpaced OLED models by a ~10:1 ratio. MiniLED monitors accounted for a 91% share … Read more

The SID/DSCC Business Conference Will Highlight TV Technology

The 2022 SID/DSCC Business Conference at DisplayWeek, sponsored by Applied Materials, Corning, GE and Amorphyx will feature over 35 different talks on all aspects of the display industry. One of five application-oriented sessions of the conference will address the market for TVs and TV displays, which is so critical for the supply/demand balance of the … Read more

Samsung retains top spot in Omdia Q4 2021 semiconductor market analysis

2021 semiconductor rankings

What They Say Omdia reported its Q4 2021 figures for the semiconductor business showing that Intel just, barely, squeezed past Samsung Electronics for the year as a whole although Samsung was in top spot in Q4 with $19.995 billion compared to 19.976 billion (which is probably within the ‘margin of error’. While Intel was almost … Read more

PC Monitor Shipments Reached a Nine-Year High in 2021, but Slowdown Expected Ahead, According to IDC

The global PC monitor market continued its quarterly decline in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21) with unit shipments shrinking 5.2% compared to the same quarter in 2020. Despite a challenging second half of the year, the market still exceeded expectations and ended 2021 with a 5.0% year-over-year growth rate, according to the International Data … Read more

Commercial Flat Panel Display Volume Up 20.1% Year-on-year, Projection Flat

What They Say Hat tip to Dave Haynes at sixteen-nine.net for spotting a release from Futuresource that reported that while projection grew by 0.2% year on year in 2021, flat panel commercial displays grew 20.1%. The analyst said that Projector sales are still 30% lower than before the pandemic and mainstream B2B and short throw … Read more

Samsung Sued for Infringement of HEVC Essential Patents

MPEG LA announced that enforcement actions have been brought in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Samsung Electronics GmbHfor infringement of patents in MPEG LA’s HEVC Patent Portfolio License. The patents are essential to the HEVC (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2) digital video coding standard used in products that encode and decode video for … Read more

Eutelsat Organises a Webinar on UHD

Satellite broadcaster, Eutelsat gave an update on the development of 4K and its impact on content creation and consumption in a webinar that you can view here. The panellists were: Andrea Michelozzi of Communicare Digitale Nelka Pavlouska of Museum TV/MyZen TV Ben Schwarz of the UltraHD Forum Luca de Bartolo of Tivu Srl Paul Gray … Read more

Forget foldables — Samsung’s first scrollable phone could launch this year

What They Say Quoting ‘leaker’ sources and an unidentified ‘third form factor’ (on top of the B4 for the ZFold4 and Q4 for the ZFlip4, there’s an N4), Toms Hardware has speculated that Samsung might be preparing a scrollable handset. What We Think I do like the idea of a scrollable handset, but clearly it’s … Read more