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Worldwide Shipments of PCs and Tablets Will Maintain Growth Through 2021 but Future Opportunity Leans Towards Notebook PCs, According to IDC

August 25, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, worldwide shipments of PCs are expected to grow 14.2% to 347 million units in 2021. This is down from IDC’s May forecast of 18% growth with continued supply chain and logistical challenges cited as the main reasons. The … Read more

Samsung, LG to Showcase Display Innovations at IMID

August 25, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Economic Daily reported plans from the IMID event in Korea. Among the highlights was a demo of a prototype Flex In & Out display, also called the S-Foldable (pictured). It also showed its Eco² OLED that is in the Galaxy Z Fold 3. LG Display focused on an 8K 88″ … Read more

Samsung Plans $200 billion Investment

August 25, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung is to boost its investment plans to a total of $206 billion over the next three years, creating 40,000 new jobs and will include Samsung Display according to the Korea Economic Daily. The latest plan is 33% bigger than the spending between 2018 and 2020 and spending in Korea alone will … Read more

Covid Hits E Ink Production

August 25, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say E Ink is having problems supplying enough of its EPD panels according to GoodEReader.com. The prime reason is the effect of the coronavirus on its production facility in Yangzhou in Eastern China. The problem is likely to ease around November or December, but that is not certain. Although costs have risen, the … Read more

Unilumin and STMicroelectronics Jointly Develop the New Generation LED Display Products

August 25, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say TUnilumin and STMicroelectronics (STM) said that they had collaborated on a new high-speed contactless connection technology which is based on 5G technology and has passed the joint test of China’s State Radio Monitoring Center Testing Center and SRTC Shenzhen Laboratory. Unilumin said that it would ‘soon’ have a new product exploiting the … Read more

Links 26th August 2021

August 25, 2021 by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from this week. I usually leave it until Friday, but there are a lot this week! World’s largest video game projection record shattered The New Oculus Quest 2 Model with 128GB of Storage Is Now … Read more

Allente Among World’s First Operators to Integrate Google Common Broadcast Stack, Supported by KAON and 3SS

August 25, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

3 Screen Solutions (3SS) and KAONMEDIA jointly announce the completion of their hybrid STB (set-top box) integration for Nordic pay-TV giant Allente. This accomplishment is a milestone achievement which makes Allente one of the world’s first operators to complete Google Common Broadcast Stack integration for an Android TV Operator Tier STB. The project was completed … Read more

Lux Research Forecasts XR Development

August 25, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Lux Research has released (registration required) the exec summary of a report it has created on AR and VR developments. It forecasts that smart glasses will take 2-5 years to arrive as a volume market, while fully immersive AR glasses will take 5-7 years. On the meantime, video passthrough AR will gain … Read more

Clinical Software Applications Expand Barco’s Nexxis OR-over-IP System

August 25, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Global visualization and collaboration leader Barco has expanded its solution portfolio for the digital operating room significantly. We look back on our track record, as we start nearing our OR-over-IP system Nexxis’s tenth birthday, anticipating a future with even more flexibility. Excellent connectivity for surgical teams around the globe Nexxis makes it possible to share … Read more

Nuclear Fusion Getting Nearer

August 25, 2021 by Bob Raikes

What They Say There has been lots of talk about the feasibility of generating clean power with nuclear fusion after a successful experiment that suggested it might be achievable. A group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US said that it had produced 10 quadrillion watts of power after blasting a hydrogen capsule … Read more

AOC Launches Four Professional QHD and 4K Displays with Smart USB-C Connectivity

August 25, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Display specialist AOC expands its professional P2 line-up of business monitors with four new displays in 27″ (68.6 cm) and 32″ (80 cm) sizes. Each of the new monitors employs USB-C connectivity for a single cable connection to laptops, tablets and mobile devices to simultaneously transfer the video signal, power and data to connected SSD … Read more

U.S. OTT Video Subscriptions to Grow 20% Over Next Five Years

August 25, 2021 by Artem Alekseenko

Parks Associates today announced that the number of OTT subscriptions in the US will increase from nearly 230 million in 2021 to more than 277 million in 2026, an increase of over 20% in five years. The new whitepaper, The Evolving Digital Media Landscape, developed in partnership with Everise, also reveals that 80% of millennials … Read more