Mobile Display Monitor – Page 428

InfiniLED Bought by Oculus

by Bob Raikes

Oculus VR, owned itself by Facebook, has bought Irish start-up InfiniLed, of Cork, Ireland, (not to be confused with Infiled of China!) which is developing microLEDs. The Irish Times said that this is for …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Samsung Starts 10nm SoC Production

by Bob Raikes

Samsung said that it has started the mass production of SoC chips, based on a 10 nanometer FinFET process. The company claims it will give a 30% increase in area efficiency compared to 14nm …

Tags:Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| SOCs| Vol 23 - Issue 41

HTC To Boost Vive Sales in 2017

by Bob Raikes

The Economic Daily News in China said that HTC is expected to sell 400,000 Vive VR devices this year, with 1.5 million forecast for 2017. Part of the increase may come from cost savings …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 41

HannStar Getting to Black

by Bob Raikes

Hannstar is close to achieving profitability according to reports from Asia as prices have got firmer, especially in markets such as low end smartphones and featurephones where a number of companies have dropped out …

Global Semiconductor Sales Will Improve

by Yvette Raikes

By the end of this year, semiconductor turnover will have reached $332 billion, down 0.9% YoY, according to Gartner. But the researcher still thinks that the outlook is improving, thanks to stock replacement and …

Chalmers University Developing a Flexible, Full-Color E-Paper Display

by Arthur Berman

A new type of reflective e-paper material and display is under development by a team headed by Andreas Dahlin within the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, (Göteborg, Sweden). …

Tags:Electrochromic Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Reflective Display| Vol 23 - Issue 41

Gaming Market Buoyant Around the World

by Bob Raikes

In the lead up to IFA, GfK highlighted that the gaming market segment of the global PC market was buoyant and it said that the desktop segment of the gaming market globally had increased …

Withings Steel HR Will Include Digital Display

by Bob Raikes

Withings, which is now owned by Nokia, has released the Activité Steel watch, a fitness tracker that has a simple analogue face and works with an app on a smartphone to track activity. The …

Tags:Fitness Trackers| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 41

TES Optimistic on OLED Equipment

by Bob Raikes

The Korea Herald reports that Korean equipment company, TES, which is doing well from investments into NAND memory by Samsung and others, is also doing well from sales to EverDisplay and CSOT in China …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Production Equipment| Vol 23 - Issue 41

An Update on the Sonder Keyboard

by Arthur Berman

This article is prompted by the fact that the Sonder keyboard, developed by Sonder Design Pty. Ltd. (Eveleigh, NSW, Australia), was prominently featured in the news during this past week. More specifically, it was …

Sony To Take VR Beyond Games

by Bob Raikes

Sony’s CEO, Kaz Hirai, has said at Mipcom, the annual TV content event in Cannes, that Sony will look beyond just gaming to exploit its PlayStation VR headset and technology. The company has already …

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| sony| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 41

DOT Ban of Note 7 Extended

by Bob Raikes

The US Department of Transportation (DOT), with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have banned the carriage of Samsung Note 7 devices in aircraft because of the problems of the phone catching fire. Flight crew …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 41