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What They Say HP put out its quarterly result for its first fiscal quarter. Revenue was up by 8.8% from a year ago to $17 billion. Margins were down slightly from last year to 8.0% from 8.4% and earnigns were $1.1 billion. Personal systems were up 15% to $12.2 billion with strong commercial growth (+26%) … Read more
What They Say Counterpoint Research posted a blog that highlighted the value of the smartphone market, which grew to be $448 billion in 2021, up 7% year on year in Q4. Apple’s market revenues were $196 billion (43.7%). As GfK reported recently, ASPs rose 12% to reach $322 based on increased penetration of 5G sets. … Read more
trinamiX GmbH, a leader in 3D imaging and infrared sensing technologies, today announced it has joined the Qualcomm Software Accelerator Program to enable its patented technology for “live skin” detection as the new gold-standard for facial recognition across mobile devices. Through this new collaboration with trinamiX and Qualcomm Technologies, OEM customers will now be able … Read more
With the launch of ReadySet Studios, the Dutch film industry offers a new high-end virtual production location. The studio enables film and television producers in the Netherlands to use the advantages of virtual production. Faber Audiovisuals installed an ROE Visual LED wall to display these virtual backgrounds. The ReadySet Studios, located in Amsterdam, will open … Read more
The Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) unveiled USI Version 2.0 (USI 2.0) of its popular active stylus specification. Used in millions of products and standard for Google Chromebooks, the USI specification is the only open standard, active stylus solution allowing a single stylus to be used on multiple touch enabled devices. With the release of USI … Read more
intoPIX and Fraunhofer IIS, the main JPEG XS standard patent holders, announce the creation and availability of a JPEG XS patent pool administered by Vectis IP. The new pool enables manufacturers, developers, and implementers to efficiently license JPEG XS standard essential patents using the framework of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing. JPEG XS is the … Read more
What They Say Sensor maker, Elliptic Labs of Norway, said that its technology is being used in the Lenovo T14 notebook and is the ‘first software-only human presence detection solution’. Elliptic Labs’ AI Virtual Presence Sensor enables the laptop to automatically lock or unlock whenever the user leaves or returns to the screen. Elliptic Labs’ … Read more
ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, released the new ZTE Blade V40 series at the Mobile World Congress 2022 (MWC 2022) on February 28, 2022, local time in Barcelona. The exciting new hero series includes ZTE Blade V40 5G, ZTE Blade V40 Pro, ZTE … Read more
What They Say Samsung released new Galaxy Book2 Business and Pro model notebooks at MWC. The Book2 Pro 360 is a convertible that uses a 15.6″ or 13.3″ FullHD display. You can see the infrographic here with the full specification. Features include S-Pen support. The Pro model has the same display options and is ‘secured-core … Read more
What They Say The South Korean government said that it would invest $187 million towards a national metaverse project. Park Yungyu, head of communication and policy department at the ministry, stated in the announcement that this initiative to build a metaverse platform is part of the broader “Digital New Deal” in South Korea. The Digital … Read more
What They Say Lenovo has announced its first ThinkPad-branded notebook based on an Arm processor from Qualcomm. The Thinkpad X13s is said to have 28 hours of battery life (49.5WHr battery) for video playback and the 2.35 lbs (1.066kg) and is based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor with support for 5G and 4G. The … Read more
What They Say Qualcomm announced at MWC that it is working in a new partnership with ByteDance that is now the owner of the Pico VR company. (TikTok owner ByteDance could acquire VR headset maker Pico). The firms will collaborate to “enable the ecosystem for Pico”. Technode reported that ByteDance moved staff to Pico just … Read more
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