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More Tales from the Pandemic (Pain Points in Education, Part I)

It’s apparent to most of us that education systems across the world are going through particularly difficult times these days. Blame the Pandemic. And I can’t seem to erase the image out of my mind, a reaction spoken by a leader in the VR/AR industry, that selling to educators these days feels like being an … Read more

AMD acquiring Xilinx in $35B semiconductor mega-deal

What They Say The chip industry consolidation dance continued as AMD has entered into an agreement to buy Xilinx for $35 billion, giving the company access to a broad set of specialized workloads. AMD sees this deal as combining two companies that complement each other’s strengths without cannibalizing its own markets, and believes the acquisition … Read more

AMD to Acquire Xilinx, Creating the Industry’s High Performance Computing Leader

AMD and Xilinx announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. The combination will create the industry’s leading high performance computing company, significantly expanding the breadth of AMD’s product portfolio and customer set across diverse growth markets where Xilinx is an established … Read more

Aledia orders Veeco’s 300mm MOCVD systems for its upcoming MicroLED production fab

What They Say Veeco announced that Aledia (who we wrote about a couple of weeks ago Aledia Accelerating microLED Execution) has bought a Propel 300mm HVM MOCVD system for use in its plant. Veeco says that the Propel system, featuring a SEMI-compliant Equipment Front End Module (EFEM) with cassette-to-cassette automation, was chosen due to its … Read more

Ynvisible starts to ship commercial roll-to-roll printed large-area segmented displays

What They Say Ynvisible, which makes displays based on electrochromic technology, said that it has made its first commercial delivery of R2R printed segment displays for use in portable Pickleball (a table tennis/tennis/badminton hybrid) What We Think Well, that gave me a chance to find out what Pickleball is! For sports scoring, the low power … Read more

The New Standard For Immersive Location-based Entertainment: The Panasonic PT-RQ35K Projector Series 

The latest range of Panasonic 3-Chip DLP laser projectors, available in December, set new standards for immersive location-based entertainment with spectacular 4K image quality alongside ease of set-up and use. The world’s smallest and lightest 30,500 lumen projectors, the PT-RQ35K (4K) and PT-RZ34K (WUXGA) are designed to visually thrill visitors to museums, exhibitions, theme parks … Read more

Dutch Breast Cancer Research Program Installs Europe’s Largest Fleet of Barco Coronis Uniti Display Systems

Barco has deployed 45 Coronis Uniti 12MPs and 96 Coronis Fusion 6MP displays, effectively Europe’s single biggest fleet of Barco Coronis Uniti® display systems, under a new agreement with the Netherlands’ national breast cancer screening program. The units are installed in radiology reading rooms, acquisition stations, and a number of mobile installations. In the detection … Read more

Inconsistent HDR format support in PS5 & Xbox Series X

What They Say Flatpanelshd reports that there is uncertainty about HDR support in the XBox Series X and PS5. Xbox Series X will support HDR10+. Microsoft will also support Dolby Vision for streaming and gaming (later), but reportedly not for UHD Blu-ray. Although Sony TVs support Dolby Vision, there has been no support announced in … Read more