Vol 23 – Issue 47 – Page 6

Premium Tablets Strong in Western Europe

by Bob Raikes

IDC reported that sales of tablets in Western Europe declined to 8.2 million units, a drop of 6.7% year on year, although detachables and commercial sales increased by 48.4% and 13.1% respectively. Although volumes …

Synaptics Chips for Samsung?

by Bob Raikes

Chinese sources say that ASE and VisEra Technologies have won orders to package under-glass fingerprint sensors from Synaptics, to be used in the Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone. The FS4500 chip is reported to be …

Freeview Play Adds Four Brands

by Bob Raikes

Freeview said that four new TV brands, Blaupunkt, Hisense, Sharp Aquos and Toshiba will introduce FreeView Play TVs in the next few months. The service is claimed to offer 6,000 hours of content per …

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Atlona Brings UltraHD to Collaboration

by Bob Raikes

Atlona has introduced an UltraHD collaboration system kit that includes UltraHD AV switch, USB and HDMI extension as well as system control for PC-based conferencing using Skype for Business, WebEx, and GoToMeeting cloud services. …

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Arch Fits Display to the Louvre

by Bob Raikes

Arch.eu has installed a special LED display at the new Carrousel du Louvre, a new space designed to be a ‘preamble’ to the main Louvre museum. The display was designed to fit a particular …

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Minimum Specs for Holographic Revealed

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft’s minimum specifications for the Windows Holographic platform have been spotted by “The Verge”, which noted a dialogue when it did some testing. The dialogue indicated that memory should be 4.0GB, USB 3.0 is …

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CSoT Shows 31″ OLEDs – OLEDNet

by Bob Raikes

OLEDNet in Korea reported that CSOT (the TCL subsidiary) demonstrated three 31″ curved OLEDs joined together to create a 5760 x 1080 with 150 cd/m² at the recent China High Tech Fair in Beijing. …

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Yole Looks at OTFT in Displays

by Bob Raikes

Yole Développement (Yole), based in Lyon, France, has released a report on organic TFT developments and said that the next 18 months would be critical for the industry. The firm said that multiple panel …

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The Holst Center Claims ALD Breakthrough

by Bob Raikes

The Holst Centre in the Netherlands has developed a new process for spatial atomic layer deposition (sALD) that might be able to replace physical vapour deposition (PVD) at the same – and potentially even …

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The Advent of OLED Fabric Displays?

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, sometime between cooking that turkey and ordering your first Christmas gift, the folks at Korea’s national research lab KAIST said they’ve developed a process that can lead to wearable …

Samsung E-board Uses PCap

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has introduced the DM65E-BC, a 65″ capacitive touch display with integrated touch, rather than using an overlay as previously used (DME-BR). MagicIWB S2 is pre-installed on the SoC as an option. The display …

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Aoto Wins Harrods Deal

by Bob Raikes

Aoto has supplied 12 LED displays (M1.7C and M2C) with a total of 60 m² area to the presitigious Harrods department store in London. There is a large display on each floor and two …

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