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OnePlus Extends Display Differentiation in Smartphone Lineup with Pixelworks Technology in the OnePlus 8T

October 16, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

Pixelworks®, Inc., a leading provider of innovative video and display processing solutions, and OnePlus, a premium global smartphone manufacturer, announced that the new OnePlus 8T smartphone incorporates Pixelworks technology with unique display features, including its patented high-efficiency color calibration, color management, flesh tone correction and protection, flicker-free screen dimming and ultra-smooth adaptive brightness. The OnePlus … Read more

CEA LETI prints pixelated hologram on miniature 6 x 6mm component

October 16, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reports that scientists at CEA-LETI in Grenoble (it seems to be LETI week – probably related to a virtual open day it recently held) have developed a 6 x 6mm surface with a printed pixellated hologram. The idea is to create a coherent image on the back of the retina by … Read more

Study: Smart TVs raise piracy and privacy concerns

October 16, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The article gives some interesting data on how (US) consumers view the sharing of data to SmartTV operators. There are also some interesting numbers on how viewers feel about video piracy. What We Think On the one hand, you would think that targeted advertising would be attractive, but I must say I … Read more

EL-QLED Progress Comes out of the “Blue”

December 21, 2022October 16, 2020 by Peter Palomaki

It seems I’ve written a lot recently about EL-QLED progress, even though commercialization would appear to be still many years off. But it is just so interesting I can’t help myself! You may recall I lamented about the status of blue EL-QLED (electroluminescent QLED) earlier this year in Singing the EL-QLED Blues. A recent article … Read more

Netflix Develops lower bitrates and higher quality

October 16, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Netflix published a blog post to say that it is to use its latest codec schemes including per-title encode optimisations and per-shot dynamic optimisation on its back catalogue to reduce the bitrate needed without losing quality. The services started with fixed bitrate encoding. The firm has been improving its codec optimisation and … Read more

Some Smartphone Market Items

October 15, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say Here are three links with useful news on the smartphone market Strategy Analytics said that Samsung Captured 88 Percent Market-Share of 5G Smartphone Shipments in Western Europe in H1 2020 Report: Huawei is in talks to sell part of its Honor smartphone unit Nikkei reports that China’s Oppo makes play for European … Read more

MicroVision Introduces The World’s Smallest And Lightest Display Module For Smart Glasses

October 15, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say A post on Seeking Alpha (an investors’ site) said that MicroVision has released a very small and light display module for AR glasses. The article has quite a lot of information on the development of AR glasses. What We Think There is some useful information in the article, but it smells like … Read more

Taiwanese Panel Makers Have Good Sales

October 15, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Taiwanese panel makers have put out their monthly data – see below graphics. What We Think Given the recovery in large panel prices, the boost in large panel volumes will be very welcome. The total for large panels has not been above 21.X million before, at least not in the last … Read more

MPAI Becomes More Real

October 15, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

We received this information about the MPAI (Chiariglione Launches Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) Organisation). “A few weeks ago, I wrote about my idea of establishing a non-profit organisation dedicated to leverage artificial intelligence to cope with the demand of data compression in a new setting that remunerates innovation while … Read more

Aledia Accelerating microLED Execution

December 21, 2022October 15, 2020 by Bob Raikes

In 2017, we published a couple of articles about French start-up Aledia, after a talk at the SID Investor Conference and following a trip to the LETI Research Centre in Grenoble. Recently, the company was able to raise cash to accelerate the development of its nanowire-based microLED technology and I had the chance to catch … Read more

JBD’s 0.13” microLED Display in Mass Production

October 15, 2020 by Artem Alekseenko

JBD a leading microLED display manufacturer, will release its JBD4UM480P microLED display series extending the AmµLED™ family in November this year. This series has a display area of 0.13” (3.3 mm) in diagonal and a resolution of 640X480, possibly making it the world’s smallest and brightest VGA display panel ever made. Approaching the size of … Read more

Apple’s iPhone 12 OLED screens supplied by Samsung and LG

October 15, 2020 by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Elec reports that Samsung is supplying the displays for three of the new iPhone 12 models (Mini, Pro, Pro Max), with LG Display supplying OLED panels for the 6.1-inch iPhone 12. The report suggests that 70 million finished units are expected to be produced by the end of the year and … Read more