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Analogix TCONs Extend Mobile Battery Life

by Raverstead

Analogix Semiconductor has developed new embedded DisplayPort (eDP) mainstream timing controllers (TCONs), as well as Panel Self Refresh- (PSR) enabled TCONs supporting UltraHD. These devices enable mobile vendors to extend battery life under ‘any’ …

Tags:Analogix| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Tcons (Timing Controllers)| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Ingenic SoC Supports Two Screen Technologies

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China’s Ingenic has developed an asymmetric, dual-core MIPS-based chip for 301, as well as a 15 x 13mm development kit. The Newton2 dev kit includes the new processor (M200), eMCP memory, power management controller, …

Entropic Leaves STB SoC Development

by Raverstead

Entropic has announced that it will no longer produce SoC devices for use in set-top boxes. The company will continue to supply its STB SoCs that are already in production and believes that the …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| SOCs| STBs| Vol 21 - Issue 45

TI Commercialises 1280 x 720 TRP Chipset

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Texas Instruments announced a Tilt & Roll Pixel (TRP) DLP pico chipset supporting 1280 x 720 resolution at MWC this year (DisplayMonitor Vol. 21 No 10). It is now available. Products using the chip …

Tags:Chips| DLP| Mobile Display Monitor| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 21 - Issue 45

AMD Enters ASMedia Partnership

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ASMedia, in Taiwan, has signed contracts for a partnership with AMD. Details of the relationship have not been disclosed, except to say that it is related to next-generation chipset technology.

Ams Supports Eight-Direction Gestures

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Ams AG has released a new family of chips that integrate six sensing functions, including gesture detection and Mobeam barcode emulation. The chips are part of the TMG399x family. They are intended for use …

Imagination Customers to Create ‘Kepler’ Competitor

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Imagination Technologies has said that it is working on coherent interconnect technology; this would enable Imagination’s newest multicore MIPS processors to be combined with ‘large arrays’ of its PowerVR GPUs. The intent is to …

Imagination Scales From 16 to 512 Cores

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New GPU IP has been introduced by Imagination Technologies. PowerVR Series7 range from 16 to 32 (Series7XE) and up to 512 (Series7XT) arithmetic logic unit (ALU) cores. The GPUs feature full hardware virrtualisation and …

Intel’s New Architecture to Arrive in 2015

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Intel has shared part of its product roadmap for the coming year, showing that both Skylake and Broadwell architectures will get attention in the 14nm space. Core M (Broadwell) products will be launched at …

New Core M Chips Speed Range

by Raverstead

Intel has introduced four new Core M chips, which are faster than the original devices from IFA (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 36). The news comes from CPU World, which claims that the chips …

Entropic Leaves STB SoC Development

by Raverstead

Entropic has announced that it will no longer produce SoC devices for use in set-top boxes. The company will continue to supply its STB SoCs that are already in production and believes that the …

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AMD’s Omega Upscales to UltraHD for FullHD Display

by Raverstead

AMD has announced a new driver for its GPUs and APUs that challenges Nvidia technologies. Replacing Catalyst 14.9, the Catalyst Omega driver is said to raise GPU performance by up to 19% on high-end …