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What They Say Last week, there were lots of reports of the EU’s plans to adopt USB Type-C as a uniform charging standard for consumer devices to reduce the waste and duplication of power supplies up to 11,000 tonnes of waste per year in the EU for cables and power supplies. The proposed legislation would … Read more
What They Say Bloomberg’s Power On newsletter, written by Mark Gurman, suggested that Amazon is working on a new Echo device, code-named Hoya, that is designed to be put on a wall and has a 15″ display. The device is expected to be able to run apps for streaming, such as Netflix. The paper said … Read more
What They Say MacRumors reported that there are new entries in the latest beta of macOS Monterey for new resolutions of 3456 x 2234 Retina and 3024 x 1964 Retina (both close to 14:9). Those resolutions are not supported in any current Apple Mac products and there has been speculation that these may be the … Read more
Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video processing silicon IPs, and Beamr, the leading developer of content-adaptive video encoding technologies, today announced an integrated solution that combines Beamr’s CABR silicon IP with Allegro’s video encoding IP to create the world’s first content-adaptive silicon IP encoder. Using the integrated solution, ASIC vendors can now create high-performance, … 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. A School District Successfully Implements Boxlight ProColor in All Classrooms EIZO Releases 6U OpenVPX/SOSA aligned GPGPU Processing Card with Dual NVIDIA Turing RTX GPUs for Sensor and Data-driven … Read more
Kopin® Corporation, a leading developer and provider of high-resolution microdisplays and display subassemblies for consumer, defense, enterprise, industrial and medical products, announced it has received an approximately $850,000 follow-on order for its proprietary Lightning® 2K silicon backplane wafers. “We are proud to receive an additional follow-on order for our proprietary Lightning® 2K silicon backplane wafers,” … Read more
What They Say The Nikkei reported that a team at Keio University has been able to develop a plastic-based optical fibre that might be usable as an alternative to glass fibres. The group claims to have transmitted data at up to 53Gbps without the need for special error correction. The group believes that the material … Read more
What They Say The German Bitkom trade association forecast CE revenues in the country as reaching €8.96 billion this year. Flat TV is the biggest single sector at €4.07 billion. Smartphone sales value is forecast to reach €10.9 billion with 22.1 million handsets to be sold (the same as 2020), at an average of €495. … Read more
What They Say Republicworld.com reported that NASA is launching an AR tool to help users of the International Space Station to repair and maintain the spacecraft. The system uses Microsoft Hololens headset and allows earth-based technicians to advise. The first test was done in April. What We Think This is a great application, as the … Read more
What They Say Skyworth held a virtual event to launch its latest TVs. The company gave us a pre-briefing and told us that it would be adding to its facilities outside China by starting a factory in Mexico to support its US business. The firm said that it has seen a 68% increase in overseas … Read more
What They Say Protocol’s Next Up letter gave an update on Dreamscape that is a player in the location-based VR industry which has been hit hard by the pandemic and the blog said that “Sandbox VR was forced into bankruptcy restructuring, Spaces sold and The Void shut down permanently”. Dreamscape is backed by AMC and … Read more
What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung is working with Ulvac of Japan to develop vertical deposition technology for the manufacture of IT application OLEDs on G8.5 substrate sizes. It reports that Ulvac has a research space near Samsung Display to work on the technology. The blog reports that Applied Materials supplied vertical deposition … Read more
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