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CEA Says US Tech Spending to Set Record This Year

by Super User

According to the CEA, total spending on technology in the USA this Christmas season will rise 2.5% YoY, to more than $33.7 billion. An improving macroeconomic environment is increasing consumers’ willingness to shop, said …

Tags:CTA (was CEA)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

ARM and TSMC Celebrate Big.Little on FinFET

by Super User

The results of a silicon validation of ARM’s Big.Little chip architecture, showing performance improvements, have been announced. The validation used ‘Big’ Cortex-A57 and ‘Little’ Cortex-A53 processors on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET (16FF) process technology. The …

Tags:Arm| Chips| CPUs| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Sharp Surprises With MEMS-IGZO Tablet in 2015

by Super User

Last month (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 37), Sharp announced that it would begin mass-production of its MEMS-IGZO displays (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 22) in 2017. Much earlier than this date, however, the …

Tags:IGZO| MEMS| Mobile Display Monitor| sharp| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Another Week of Too Much

by Super User

I’ll keep the editorial short this week as we have a huge amount of content for you as we have three event reports this week. I worry that we’re overloading you, but, equally, I …

Tags:Editorial| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Chinese Display Makers Form Alliance

by Super User

According to the Xinhua News Agency, Chinese FPD makers have formed an alliance to boost their global competitiveness. The alliance, which has not been named, was launched on 11th October. The launch event saw …

Tags:BOE| China| Display Industry| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Qualcomm to Buy CSR for $2.5 Billion

by Super User

Qualcomm announced this week that it has reached agreement with CSR to acquire the UK firm for a cash consideration of approximately $2.5 billion. Qualcomm said that the acquisition complements its current offerings by …

Tags:Bluetooth| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Qualcomm| Vol 21 - Issue 41| Volume 21

Canatu Discusses CNB Films at Motion Conference

by Super User

Canatu’s Bob Senior will discuss the company’s carbon nanobud touch technology at the IHS Touch Gesture Motion Conference. Senior will present his talk on 29th October, during the session ‘Indium Tin Oxide: Is There …

Tags:Back Panel| Canatu| CNTs (Carbon Nanotubes)| ITO Replacement| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Texas Instruments Result 21/10/2014

by Super User

Texas Instruments Incorporated achieved a 31% year on year increase in net profit in Q3 to $826 million from $629 million in Q3 of the previous year, while turnover rose 8% to $3.5 billion …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| TI (Texas Instruments)| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

NTT Plala Provides UltraHD Date

by Super User

NTT Plala, the Japanese telco, will begin UltraHD broadcasting on 27th October.

Tags:4k| Japan| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Flextronics Hires New CMO

by Super User

Flextronics has appointed Michael Mendenhall to lead the company’s worldwide marketing, branding and communications initiatives. He most recently served as CMO and executive VP for Fusion-io, having previously held the post of senior VP …

Tags:Flex| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| People| Recruitment & Appointments| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Archos Releases Low-cost Gear VR Competitor

by Super User

French company Archos is to release a low-cost competitor to Samsung’s Gear VR (and, we guess, Google Cardboard), with the Archos VR Glasses. Like the Samsung and Google offerings, Archos’ ‘headset’ is more like …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| SmartGlasses| Stereo 3D| Vol 21 - Issue 42| Volume 21

Ludwig Pohl Inducted into German Research Hall of Fame

by Super User

Merck KGaA is a leading developer and supplier of LCD materials, without whom, the development of the LCD industry would have been very different. One of the drivers behind the LC development was Ludwig …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| Merck| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21