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Top Chip Vendors Beat Market Downturn

by Tom Allen

Semiconductor revenue totaled $333.7 billion in 2015, a 1.9% YoY decrease from $340.3 billion a year earlier. The top 25 vendors’ combined revenue rose 0.2% and accounted for 73.2% of total market revenue. The …

Tags:Gartner| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Semiconductor Market| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Samsung Expects Profits Rise, Misses Estimate

by Tom Allen

Samsung has released its earnings guidance for Q4’15, estimating consolidated sales of KRW53 trillion ($43.5 billion), and operating profit of KRW6.1 trillion ($5 billion). The profit represents a 15% YoY rise, from KRW5.4 trillion …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Awards Season at CES

by Tom Allen

Multiple companies have won awards at CES. Fitbit was honoured with 17 for its Fitbit Blaze wearable. HTC won 22, 14 of them for the Vive Pre headset. Intel won awards from multiple outlets …

Tags:Awards| Back Panel| CES 2016| Fitbit| HTC| Intel| Large Display Monitor| LeEco (formerly LeTV)| Mobile Display Monitor| QD Vision| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 01| ZTE

Samsung Electronics Introduces Advanced Smart TV User Experience

by Isaac Oburu

Samsung Electronics unveiled a new Samsung Smart TV user experience with the refreshed ‘Smart Hub’ user interface and new Samsung Smart Control remote. These Smart TV enhancements provide consumers with easy access to all …

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Germany: Apple Raises iPhone Prices

by Tom Allen

Apple has raised the price of its iPhone in Germany. The company, along with Samsung and other smartphone makers, agreed to pay a fee of €5-€7 for each phone or tablet imported to the …

Tags:Apple| Germany| iPhone| Mobile Display Monitor| Pricing| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 01

Samsung Studies How UHD Affects Viewers’ Brains

by Bob Raikes

Samsung commissioned a study by Mindlab International at the Sussex Innovation Centre in the UK that appears to have shown that UltraHD images are measurably “more immersive” than HD content (although sound was also …

Tags:Human Visual System (HVS)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 52

Samsung Uses LED in Modular TV Concept

by Tom Allen

Unusually, Samsung had less to show in the way of displays than normal this year. The company is increasingly saving its big mobile news for MWC in February, so CES is limited to TVs, …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| CES 2016| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Security| Smart TV| Video Walls| Vol 23 - Issue 02

Samsung Wins CES Award for Accessibility Features

by Tom Allen

Samsung said that its had won a CES 2016 Best of Innovation Award in the Accessible Tech category for one of its new Smart TVs. Features that contributed to the award included: Voice Guidance: …

Tags:Back Panel| CES 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 22 - Issue 52

Samsung Brings IoT to Smart TV

by Tom Allen

Samsung has announced that its entire lineup of 2016 SUHD TVs will be ‘IoT-ready’, and connected with its SmartThings platform. SmartThings, acquired by Samsung in 2014, is an open platform for connection and control …

Tags:Internet of Things IOT| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| Smart TV| Vol 22 - Issue 52