Vol 23 - Issue 45

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Samsung to Make Fingerprint Recognition Chips

by Bob Raikes

ETNews of Korea reports that Samsung may be about to enter the market for fingerprint recognition chips, currently dominated, it said, by Synaptics and FPC of Sweden, who are rated to have more than …

Tags:Chips| Fingerprint Recognition| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Apple

Has Apple Committed $4 billion for OLEDs?

by Bob Raikes

Apple Insider flagged up a report from JP Morgan that suggests that Apple’s financial filings suggest that it has placed a purchase order (an “off-balance sheet obligation”) for around $4 billion and the analyst …

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Samsung Plans OLED Recipe Update

by Bob Raikes

ETNews in Korea has said that Samsung will adopt a new ‘recipe’ for OLED materials in 2017, moving to the ‘M8’ formulation. That will mean that Dow and Samsung SDI will be replaced by …

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LG OLED TVs in 55″ – 77″ – Wallpaper Version?

by Bob Raikes

An apparent leak from the Wi-Fi Alliance has revealed that LG will have OLED TVs from 55″ to 77″ again in 2017. Intriguingly, there is a model W7 – and it is being speculated …

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Compal Electronics Results 14/11/2016

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

Compal Electronics Inc. announced Q3 FY16 results with consolidated sales of NT$ 197.9 bn ($6.26 bn), up 14.4% as compared to the previous quarter sales of NT$ 172.9 bn ($5.3 bn). However, the quarterly …

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TSMC Sees Better October

by Yvette Raikes

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) posted October turnover of NT$91.1 billion ($2.9 billion), up 11% from NT$81.7 billion ($2.6 billion) a year ago. This brought sales for Q3 to NT$275.1 billion ($8.6 billion) and …

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Sony

UltraHD Sony Smartphone at CES 2017?

by Bob Raikes

There are rumours that Sony will have a new Z7 smartphone at CES that has an UltraHD display, as included on the Xperia Z5 Premium, although it might also appear at Mobile World Congress …

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Canal+ France Down in France, up Internationally

by Bob Raikes

Vivendi (Canal+) in France said in its quarterly finance report that it lost, overall, 19,000 subscribers. However, subscribers in France dropped by 542,000, while international subscribers went up by 523,000. The group is taking …

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ses

More US Cable Operators Testing 4K via SES Satellites

by Bob Raikes

SES is working with four additional US cable operators to test UltraHD content delivery. (SES Boosts UHD TV in the US) SES has struck new Ultra HD trial agreements with Marquette-Adams in Wisconsin, Buckeye …

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arris

Arris HD PVR has HEVC for Streaming

by Bob Raikes

Arris has launched a new PVR, the DStv Explora 2 decoder, that is for customers in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa for use with the MultiChoice TV service in the region and which will …

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AuraSense Uses Electric Field Sensing for Smartwatch Input

by Arthur Berman

The current generation of smartwatches use the front surface of the device for two related functions: display and touch input. This approach has two consequences. First, the input device (think finger), will occasionally but …

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DS Supports ATSC 3.0

by Bob Raikes

DS Broadcast showed a new ATSC 3.0 decoder with both ROUTE (Real-Time Object Delivery over Unidirectional Transport) and MMTP (MPEG Media Transport) support. The BGD4100 Professional Decoder features decoding of UHD HEVC video with …

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