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What They Say AMD has completed its purchase of Xilinx after more than a year of processing. Some reports put the deal value at $50 billion as the deal was made based on AMD stock when the price was much lower. (AMD acquiring Xilinx in $35B semiconductor mega-deal). However, others, including Forbes, rated it at … Read more
What They Say In its latest Capex report, DSCC highlighted that there are now 11 different 15K G8.5/G8.6 IT OLED lines under development and spending for fabs for IT applications will lead OLED spending in 2024 and 2025 as both BOE and Visionox have switched their next smartphone fabs to these cost optimized IT RGB … Read more
What They Say DSCC published its overview of the equipment market for 2021 and its top five vendors. Applied Materials was top dog, taking top position from Canon/Tokki which dropped in share. It had A 100% share of the color filter sputtering market; A dominant 97% share of the $855M CVD market; A dominant 88% … Read more
DSCC and the Society for Information Display (SID) are pleased to announce a call for speakers for the 2022 SID/DSCC Business Conference. SID awarded the organization and execution of the SID Business Conference to DSCC for the sixth straight year. The SID/DSCC Business Conference is typically the largest event in the display industry dedicated to … Read more
What They Say Samsung has halted pre-orders in the US for its 11″ Galaxy Tab S8 and 14.6″ Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra which have been listed as unavailable due to “overwhelming demand in the last 48 hours.” What We Think I had a look at the UK site and found that pre-orders are still available … Read more
What They Say Digitimes Research said that it believes that the surge in demand for notebooks, driven by the pandemic, may not be sustainable as it reported shipments of 247 million units in 2021, up more than 20% from 2020 and up from a range of 150-160 million before the crisis. Much of this growth … Read more
HYPERVSN, the recognised global leader of 3D holographic solutions, are launching a new generation platform called HYPERVSN SmartV. There is a lot of hype around 3D, VR & AR, the Metaverse and how all of this will transpire into our daily lives – HYPERVSN are very much at the forefront of this technical innovation. The … Read more
Valve’s 10-day long tournament for their smash hit Dota 2 game was held in Bucharest’s largest stadium, the 50,000 capacity ‘Arena Na?ional?’, and assembled the world’s top-ranking teams to battle it out on screen for a world record-breaking prize pool of over $40m. The virtual part of the event was produced by virtual production company … Read more
What They Say Codec consultant, Jan Ozer (I’m sure I have one of his books from many years ago, somewhere..) has published an introductory guide to different codecs. What We Think This is a useful resource from a very credible author. (BR) Table 3. The most important codec ability is playability; here’s where the various … Read more
What They Say Tobii issued a short press statement to say that it is working with Sony with a view to supplying the eye tracking technology for the PlayStation VR2 headset. What We Think There was little other information supplied and the firm said, as it is ‘is obliged to make public pursuant to the … Read more
What They Say Advanced Television reported that NHK has developed an 8K camera that can capture and record at 240 fps making it suitable for slow motion sports coverage. BS4K and BS8K broadcast at 60 fps in Japan. To achieve both low noise and high speed, NHK STRL implemented two signal lines for each pixel … Read more
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (Most of them monitors, it seems!) MSI: New FreeSync Premium monitors with 170 Hz Gigabyte: WQHD monitor with Aim Stabilizer Sync and KVM MSI G271CP with FreeSync Premium … Read more
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