Vol 23 – Issue 09 – Page 5

Barco Moves Uniti Features Down to Fusion

by Bob Raikes

Last year at ECR, Barco impressed us with the features in its Coronis Uniti multi-modality display with 12 megapixels. Since its introduction, the Uniti has been approved for specialty imaging beyond mammography to include …

Applied Materials’ Ethics Recognised

by Tom Allen

Applied Materials has been recognised by the Ethisphere Institute, a body dedicated to defining and advancing ethical business standards, as a 2016 World’s Most Ethical Company. Applied Materials was one of six companies recognised …

Cometa Takes Fujitsu

by Tom Allen

Cometa is now distributing Fujitsu’s PCs, notebooks, displays and other products in the central and southern parts of Italy.

UBI: AMOLED Panels to Grow at 46% CAGR

by Tom Allen

UBI Research, of Korea, has published its annual OLED Display report, which predicts 40% YoY revenue growth for the AMOLED panel market this year, to $15 billion. Shipments are expected to rise 16%, to …

IIS Looks for OEMs for Dicom Tablet

by Bob Raikes

Image Info Systems (IIS) was a new name for us and we were attracted by the advertising on its booth of “the first Dicom-calibrated” tablet. The company is based in the UK, but has …

WiFi Power Reduced by ‘10,000 Times’

by Tom Allen

A team at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a concept that they call ‘passive WiFi’, which is up to 10,000 times more efficient than today’s wireless standards. It also consumes 1,000 times …

Sharp Due Diligence “Mostly Done”

by Tom Allen

Reuters says that Sharp and Foxconn are now moving forwards with the acquisition deal (Sharp Accepts Foxconn Bid), which was delayed last week due to clarifications required on Sharp liabilities (Foxconn Delays Sharp Acquisition). …

Chip Makers Struggle in February

by Tom Allen

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) reported a YoY decrease of 7% in February, to NT$17.7 billion ($538.9 million). Year-to-date revenues were NT$38.8 billion ($1.2 billion), down 8.3% YoY. Lite-On Semiconductor rose 4.3% YoY, to NT$645 …

Qualcomm’s 820 Will ‘Dominate’ Android

by Tom Allen

Asian supply chain sources have said that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 is likely to ‘dominate’ Android smartphones in the first half of 2016. The processor is being used by firms including Samsung, LG, HTC, Xiaomi, …

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HTC Falls in February

by Tom Allen

HTC has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.2 billion ($129.1 million) for February: a 35.2% MoM fall and 54.5% YoY. Year-to-date revenues were NT$10.7 billion ($326.2 million), which is down 50.33% YoY. Sales are expected …

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Embedded World Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

Alpha Display is Korea-based although it also has offices in San Jose and Sofia. It specialises in industrial and touch displays and was showing four models in 10.4″, 15″, 17″ and 19″ that are …

HDBaseT Bullish on Automotive Take-up

by Bob Raikes

HDBaseT and the developers, Valens, were at the Embedded World show to demonstrate two uses of the technology. First, we looked at a new dongle-based transmitter that has been developed and which can easily …