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Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the moving computer images known as GIFs, died from Covid. His achievement was memorialized online by, well, GIFs (NYT) Nike Has ‘fake … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. I haven’t been watching audio closely, so hadn’t noticed that HP Inc had bought Poly (Plantronics + Polycom) for $1.7 billion. Does anyone else remember the Plantronics … Read more
Newly released data from IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that Africa’s overall mobile phone market suffered a year-on-year (YoY) decline of 11.3% in Q4 2021 to total 48.6 million units. The feature phone market was down 14.3% to 27.1 million units, while smartphone shipments declined 7.1% to 21.5 million units. Africa’s major smartphone … Read more
Himax Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and other semiconductor products, announced the Company has made an exceptional breakthrough with the introduction of an industry first 288Hz 8K TV TCON (8K TV Timing Controller) solution for the ultra-high-resolution 8K, gaming TV market. By collaborating with major world-class TV panel makers, … Read more
What They Say Magnachips said that it has a new DDIC for OLED TVs, adding to its OLED support after the company introduced chips for smartphones. (Magnachip Enters Full-Scale Mass Production of High Frame Rate OLED DDIC for 5G Smartphones with QHD Displays) The new chips are in ‘full scale mass production’ The DDCI is … Read more
Did you know there is a Thank God It’s Monday Day? It was January 3. Blue Monday? January 17. No Brainer Day? February 27. National Awkward Moments Day? For many of us, that is nearly every day. Officially, it is March 18—which seems fitting as it comes the day after St. Patrick’s Day, when the … Read more
What They Say Micledi Microdisplays of Leuven in Belgium said that it has done a deal with GlobalFoundries (GF) for the chipmaker to integrate the Micledi microLED arrays with the GF 22FDX platform. The GF chips will provide image processing, driver and control functions using wafer-to-wafer hybrid bonding. The company will develop the combined devices … Read more
What They Say Wired talked to an Indian company, Nimo Planet, that is developing AR glasses that are intended to act as possible replacements for notebook displays, although they don’t need to be tethered to a system. They can support up to six virtual screens. Despite the bulky look of the displays, battery life is … Read more
Vestel Visual Solutions has launched its next-generation IFX Series of 4K interactive displays, designed to offer a new level of engagement from classroom to boardroom. Available in three sizes, the 65”, 75” and 86” touch enabled UHD displays meet the needs of businesses across a number of sectors. “Offering a tailored technology solution for both … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, Apple launched its Studio Display, but it’s a bit more than a ‘dumb monitor’. So does that suggest other monitors making that kind of change? Well, I have some views. The Apple Studio Display is a respectable 5K monitor with 27″ diagonal, but it has something else. The monitor contains … Read more
What They Say PSCo, a (the?) leading distributor and wholesale rental company in the LED market in the UK (and these days part of Midwich) has announced that it has done a deal with video wall processing company Brompton Technology and highlighted the features that the firm’s products have in supporting virtual sets and virtual … Read more
Elliptic Labs, a global AI software company and the world leader in Virtual Smart Sensors™, is announcing a collaboration with AMD (Nasdaq: AMD) to expand Elliptic Labs’ AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform to select PCs and laptops powered by AMD Ryzen™ PRO 5000 Series processors. The combination of Elliptic Labs’ AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform … Read more
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