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Taming the Energy Use of Gaming Computers

by Jon Peddie

Gaming PCs consume roughly 75 billion kilowatt-hours per year of electricity in 2012 – 20% of global PC consumption. Evan Mills of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Nathaniel Mills of GreeningTheBeast.com just published a …

Tags:Environment| Game Playing| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 31

Is Power the Elephant in the Room for Better Pixels?

by Bob Raikes

Over the last year, a lot (or most) of the discussion in the TV business has been around the concept of more, better and faster pixels. We’ve covered UltraHD, high dynamic range (HDR) and …

Tags:Energy Star| Power Consumption| TV (Television)| Vol 22 - Issue 28

Scientists Pioneer 30x Rise in OLED Efficiency!

by Tom Allen

A team from the University of Ulsan, in Korea, claim to have developed a way to raise OLED efficiency by 3,000%! The research team was able to raise efficiency of iridium-doped phosphorescent emitters by …

Samsung AMOLEDs Approach LCD Efficiency

by Tom Allen

Anandtech has posted an article analysing the varying power consumption levels of Samsung’s AMOLED displays, in the Galaxy S4, S5, S5 LTE-A and S6. A white image (forcing the OLED display to draw the …

Challenges Remain, but Some Display Jobs are Now Done

by Bob Raikes

This week, we have been very busy following up the SID show and we are just finalising the report as I write this article. Now I’m away from it, it’s getting clearer what the …

For Wearables, Power is The Elephant in the Room (WF16)

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on the role of and limitations for wearables imposed by power consumption and battery size, type and capacity. The …

Skylake Brings Huge Efficiency Gains

by Tom Allen

A report from Kitguru, citing an Intel document, shows that Intel’s upcoming Core-M Skylake chips – the next micro-architecture – will consume up to 60% less energy than comparable Broadwell devices. An image from …

Asus Claims 10-Day Smartwatch Battery

by Tom Allen

Asus has shown off a new smartwatch at the Milan Design Week. The Vivowatch puts a greater focus on fitness tracking than Asus’ Zenwatch; the biggest appeal is its battery life, which is said …

App Developers Cotton on to OLED Technology

by Tom Allen

Image credit: Android PoliceA new app on the Google Play store promises to extend the battery life of smartphones with OLED displays. ‘Pixel OFF’ turns off some pixels in the display, darkening the screen …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| pixels| Power Consumption| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Vector Uses Memory LCD for 30-Day Battery

by Tom Allen

Vector’s smartwatch, which got significant coverage recently for the claimed 30-day battery life (Vector Claims Month-Long Battery), has been unveiled at Baselworld. The watch achieves its long life using a monochrome memory LCD display …

Tags:Memory LCD| Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 13

KAIST Keeps Power Draw Low in Eye-Tracking HMD

by Tom Allen

Image credit: NikkeiThe Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a head-mounted display, which combines object recognition, eye-tracking and augmented reality (activated by blinking!). The ‘Smart Glass’ uses a different chip …

Sharp Can Supply Memory LCD

by Bob Raikes

Jeremy Lock is from Sharp’s R&D lab in Oxford and he looks at all sizes of displays, but at the conference he talked about small displays for wearables. There are a lot of questions …