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What They Say Fabless chip maker Pixelworks said that it had a strong quarter for Q2 with revenue up more than 50% from last year at $14.05 million but with a net loss of $4.4 million. The projector chip business increased over 100% sequentially and 30% year-over-year, reflecting a recovery in customer and end market … Read more
Four leading local television stations in Indianapolis, including WRTV (ABC), WTTK (CBS), WTHR (NBC), and WXIN (FOX), bring NEXTGEN TV, a revolutionary new digital broadcast technology, to the city. Based on the same fundamental technology as the Internet and digital apps, NEXTGEN TV can support a wide range of features that are currently in development. … Read more
What They Say Nikkei reports that Chromebook makers have been ‘slashing’ their orders for components by ‘at least 20%’. That could mean 10 million or so fewer Chromebooks in the market this year. One brand told Nikkei that demand in the US had slowed although there are still projects in Japan. Higher display prices have … Read more
What They Say TCL, which has previously used Roku as its high end sets, with some lower end Android-based sets, is bringing TV sets powered by Google TV to the market in its 5- and 6-series. The 5-Series will be available in 50″, 55″, 65″ and 75″ while the 6-Series is in just the larger … Read more
What They Say DXOMark already liked the cameras in the Huawei P50 Pro smartphone and now it has tested the display which is a 6.6″ 2700 x 1228 pixels and refresh up to 120Hz (touch up to 300Hz). The display took top place both globally and in the ‘Ultra-premium’ segment. Pros Brightness is appropriate for … Read more
What They Say SMPTE’s Motion Imaging Journal has taken a special look at HDR this month and has a number of interesting articles on the topic. Our eye was particularly caught by this one which details a computational model that can predict the impact of the Helmholtz Kohlrausch (H-K effect). (Basically, the H-K effect is … Read more
The complexity of modern air space management and the ATC systems with which the air traffic control officer (ATCO) must interact influences workload and task performance. On a technical level, general increases in air traffic and the resulting increases in the volume of information that needs to be managed also suggests that if the implementation … Read more
What They Say Eizo put out a substantial press release highlighting new technology it has for combining multiple inputs (up to 4) sources, but with complete freedom to place the images anywhere on the display and with any scaling and order priority. This allows a single monitor design to be used for multiple specialist workers … Read more
What They Say Tablet shipments of tablets were 34.69 million in Q2 2021, down 3.5% from Q1, but up 12.5% year on year according to Digitimes Research. The firm said that chip shortages were a factor. Volumes are expected to rise by 30% in Q3 to the second-highest quarterly level since the outbreak. The good … Read more
Annual revenue of Micro LED chips for TV is expected to reach US$3.4 billion in 2025 at a 250% CAGR across the 2021-2025 period, according to TrendForce’s latest report titled 2021 Mini / Micro LED Self-Emissive Display Trends and Analysis on Suppliers’ Strategies. This growth can mostly attributed to the early planning by display manufacturers … Read more
What They Say TrendForce of Taiwan forecast that the value of sales of micrLEDs for TVs could reach $3.4 billion by 2025, a CAGR of 250%. It has a new report with an analysis of suppliers’ strategies. The firm bases its forecast partly on the aggressive investments by Korean TV brands on microLED. The firm … Read more
What They Say Wearable Technology reported on a paper from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that describes a two-metal nanocomposite for circuits that disintegrates when submerged in water. They demonstrated the circuits in a prototype transient device — a functional smartwatch that dissolved within 40 hours. The research group previously developed a zinc-based nanocomposite that … Read more
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