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Intel, Altera Call Off Takeover Talks

by Helen Vince

Intel and Altera are reported to have halted discussions on a possible takeover by Intel of the smaller firm because the two parties were unable to agree on price, according to “a person familiar …

Tags:Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 16

Cancelled Flights & Depth Cameras

by Bob Raikes

After the Easter break, there seems to have been something of a slow down in “big news” so Front Page stories were not so obvious as last week as we went to press. (The …

Intel Shrinks Realsense for Handsets

by Tom Allen

Intel’s Realsense 3D camera has already been installed on monitors and tablets – Dell’s Venue 8 7000, for instance – and the company is now planning to bring the technology to smartphones. Intel CEO …

Tags:3D Cameras| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Global Semiconductor Sales Increase in February 2015, says SIA

by Tom Allen

Both the Semiconductor Industry Association and Gartner have released their most recent semiconductor sales estimates – for February 2015 from the SIA, and the year 2014 from Gartner. Worldwide semiconductor sales reached $27.8 billion …

Intel Acquires Lemoptix

by Helen Vince

News has only recently emerged that Intel has acquired Swiss scanning micromirror technology firm Lemoptix. According to a notice on Lemoptix’s website, the transaction was completed last month, though no further details have been …

Tags:Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 15

V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements

by Tom Allen

A UK company called V-Nova claims to have developed a new compression technology offering between two- and three-times bitrate savings in video streaming, compared to codecs such as H.264, HEVC and JPEG2000. ‘Perseus’ has …

Surface 3 Loses RT

by Tom Allen

A rumour circulated the web at the end of March that Microsoft would launch a new Surface tablet sporting 64-bit Windows 8.1, rather than Windows RT. Lo and behold, the Surface 3 was announced …

Intel, Samsung Rumoured to Be on Acquisition Trail

by Vanessa Browning

At the end of last week, there were murmurings that both Intel and Samsung were mulling options for acquiring rival chip firms, with Intel linked to Altera and Samsung linked with AMD. Both Intel …

Panasonic Commits Royalty Free Code to Internet of Things

by Steve Sechrist

In the high stakes game of moving everything to the cloud, the idea of truly Open Source code (implementation) and protocol specifications for the Internet of Things ( IoT) can be elusive. Now Panasonic …

Hybrid Chromebooks Coming in Q2

by Tom Allen

Intel will work with Google and partners including Asus, Acer, HP, Lenovo, Quanta and Pegatron to launch hybrid Chromebooks in Q2, say supply chain sources. The sources said that vendors will focus on on …

CeBIT Shows the Future of Mobile Computing

by Bob Raikes

Back in the spring of 2012, for my market research clients, I looked at the topic of wireless connections to displays. It has seemed to me, for some years, that the increasing miniaturisation of …

Is Google Signalling Display as a Service?

by Bob Raikes

Steve mentions in his report in this issue that the interest at DSE from Google might be related to the idea that Digital Signage might just become part of the “Internet of Things” (IOT). …