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Innolux Bringing Flexible OLED, Smart Assistant and VR Tech to Touch Taiwan

by Andrew Fenn

Innolux is bringing smart watches, smart home devices and VR head mounted displays to Touch Taiwan 2018 which takes place in Taipei from August 29th – 31st. The company has made a smart watch …

HTC Confirms September Launch and Pricing for Vive Wireless Adapter

by Andrew Fenn

HTC’s wireless Vive adapter, announced earlier this year, will launch in September, priced at $300 in the US. What we also now know is that Vive Pro owners will need to spend another $60 …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 32| Wireless

Digitimes Research: Shipments of 5G Smartphones Won’t Pick Up Until 2021

by Andrew Fenn

Digitimes Research says that shipments of 5G devices like smartphones, consumer premises equipment and Wi-Fi devices are unlikely to reach the one-million-unit mark until 2021, two years after initial shipments begin in 2019. The …

Tags:Forecasts| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Seven of the Top-15 SC Suppliers Register At Least 20% Gains in First Half of 2018

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung has extended its number one semiconductor ranking and sales lead over Intel to 22%, according to IC Insights. The top-15 worldwide semiconductor sales ranking for the first half of 2018 includes seven suppliers …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Vol 25 - Issue 32

Top-Five Notebook Firms Saw Shipments Improve by 11%

by Andrew Fenn

The top-five global notebook vendors saw their combined shipments drop by 24% month-on-month but grow 11% year-on-year in July 2018, as inventory preparations for the back-to-school rush were complete in May and June, according …

Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing

by Bob Raikes

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang gave a long talk at the Siggraph show and after showing a great set of images from computer games and PC renderings over the years, he pointed out that this year …

HDR Gaming Interest Group to Propose Production and Distribution Guidelines

by Andrew Fenn

The HDR Gaming Interest Group (HGiG) is proposing a draft of its HDR Game Content Production and Distribution Guidelines that it says “will help optimise the consumer gaming experience when playing game content in …

Tags:Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 32

StarVR Headset is Immersive

by Bob Raikes

StarVR is a company that we have been watching for a while, having first seen its VR headset at IFA in 2016. At the time, we weren’t over impressed with the quality. However, the …

Motorola Under Fire for Copying iPhone X with P30 Handset

by Andrew Fenn

Motorola has revealed its new P30 smartphone, which has been described as a “brazen”, “shameless” and “egregious” Android remake of the iPhone X. We’re not here to make a judgement as to whether that’s …

Apple Store Evacuated Following iPad Battery Explosion

by Andrew Fenn

An Apple store in Leidseplein, Amsterdam was evacuated at the weekend after an iPad’s battery exploded. The local fire service was called to assist, while employees extinguished the fire by placing the device into …

Tags:Apple| Batteries| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 32| warranty

Nvidia Brings RTX to GeForce Range

by Bob Raikes

At Siggraph, Nvidia announced its RTX cards for professional content creators, based on the new Turing GPU architecture. (Nvidia Changes the Game in Ray Tracing) Now it has released three versions for consumers and …

Arte to Conduct Ultra HD and HDR Trial Next Month

by Andrew Fenn

Franco-German TV network Arte has announced it will be running a UHD and HDR trial from September 12th – 22nd, in collaboration with Amazon CloudFront, AWS Elemental, Anyware Vidéo, ATEME, Cobalt, Globecast, Molotov, Philips, …