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Arm Adds Ray Tracing to Mobile GPUs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Arm has a new GPU, the Immortalis (how modest!) that offers hardware ray-tracing for the first time in one of the firm’s designs. It also claims a 15% boost in performance …

The Nothing Phone LOOKS Different

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Nothing Phone has now been shown to a number of people including a YouTuber who looked at the design. In particular he was impressed by the way that certain patterns …

Tags:Smartphones

HTC Announced a New Smartphone (!)

by Bob Raikes

What They Say HTC launched a new mid-range smartphone, the HTC Desire 22 Pro that is intended to be “the perfect companion with Vive Flow VR glasses”. It has a 6.6″ 1080 x 2412 …

Tags:HTC| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

Bloomberg: Apple planning A14 Apple TV

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Bloomberg’s Apple watcher, Mark Gurman, said that the firm is about to “embark on one of the most ambitious periods of new products in its history” between the autumn of this …

Links Week Starting 20th June 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

An OLED Fab in India – Count me as Surprised!

by Bob Raikes

Count me surprised as it looks as though the idea of building a G6 AMOLED fab in India seems to have moved on a step since it was rumoured last month (India-based Rajesh Exports …

Tags:India| Investment| OLED Fabs| Smartphones

Smartphone investors bet $200mn on making something out of Nothing

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A smartphone start-up, Nothing, led by an executive Carl Pei, who was a founder of OnePlus, has raised more than $200 million to launch its first smartphone which will be officially …

Tags:Financial Data| Smartphones

Sigmaintell Covers Mobiles & Tablets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say After reporting on its TV panel prices yesterday (Sigmaintell Research?TV Panel Price Trends in Jun.2022 (The early June edition)) and now we have its data on smartphone and tablet panel prices. …

Tags:Pricing| Small Medium Panel Supply| Smartphones| tablets

Pixelworks Bring Magic to Mobile – The X7 mobile visual processor

by Jon Peddie

Since the turn of the century, video frame interpolation systems have used motion compensation (MC) and Motion estimation (ME) systems. However, such solutions are not power-efficient and can introduce interpolation errors. Pixelworks, a video …

Tags:Game Playing| Semiconductors| Smartphones

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4: Everything we know so far

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Laptop Magazine had a look at the current state of rumours about the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 4. It concludes that it will be released in August It is likely to …

Links Week Ending 24th June 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the end of this week. A lighter moment – hat tip to economist …

BOE Paper Reveals Reliability, Thickness and Brightness/Color Uniformity Advantages of the Water Drop Hinge Structure

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DSCC has found an interesting talk by BOE at Display Week about the development of ‘water drop shaped’ hinges. The hinge is less tight than the kind of hinge used by …

Tags:BOE| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Smartphones