Vol 24 - Issue 20

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The Next Step for Quantum Dots

by Ken Werner

In their booth on the floor of the Society for Information Display’s Display Week at the Los Angeles Convention Center yesterday, some of the folks at quantum-dot-maker Nanosys seemed almost giddy. Samsung’s 2017 QLED …

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Samsung Improves Gear 360 & Cuts Price

by Bob Raikes

Samsung announced its improved Gear 360 camera during MWC in Barcelona (Samsung Finds Some Products to Launch) and has now released the product at a price of $229 in the US. Unusually, the camera …

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Intel to Widen Availability of Thunderbolt 3

by Bob Raikes

Intel is to make Thunderbolt 3 more widely available by first integrating the interface into new Intel CPUs and then by making the specification available to other chipmakers on a royalty-free basis next year. …

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NEC Enjoys its Solutions Showcase

by Bob Raikes

NEC held its annual Solutions Showcase in London. The location was not quite as iconic as some others, but was busy when we went along to see what was new. Over 1,500 people attended …

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HDR TV Shipments to Reach 245 million in 2022

by Alan Spencer

ABI Research has forecast that HDR TV shipments will grow at a 41% CAGR and reach 245 million units in 2022. TV sets with 8K video are believed to be many years away from …

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Spanish Pay-TV Revenues Rise 24% in Fourth Quarter of 2016

by Alan Spencer

A CNMC report reveals that in the last quarter of 2016, the Spanish pay-TV industry saw revenues hit $566 million, up 24% from the last quarter of 2015. Telefónica reportedly had the highest revenues …

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Idemitsu Considering BOE Collaboration

by Bob Raikes

Idemitsu is reported by the Nikkei Asian Review to be considering working with BOE Technology of China on the development of OLEDs. Analyst Comment We met with BOE this week at SID this week …

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Energy Star Finalising TV Requirements for V8

by Bob Raikes

The EPA in the US has been taking comments on future developments in the Energy Star requirements for the Energy Star 8 approval. Although TV makers are keen to improve viewing and image quality …

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Could AR/VR Hit $37 billion by 2027?

by Bob Raikes

IDTechEx Research believes that the market for AR/VR and “everything in between” headsets is already approaching $3.4 Billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $37 billion by 2027. The report highlights that there …

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eMagin Finance News 19/05/2017

by Jasmine Kang Sodha

eMagin has announced that it has priced an underwritten offering of an aggregate of 3,300,000 shares of common stock, together with warrants to purchase up to 1,650,000 shares of common stock of the company, …

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AGC Begins 3D Curved Cover Glass Mass Production

by Bob Raikes

Asahi Glas Corporation (AGC) said that it has started mass production of its 3D curved cover glass for car-mounted displays at its Keihin Plant in Japan and said that it is the first such …

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ViewSonic has Raspberry Pi VDI Thin Client for Citrix

by Bob Raikes

ViewSonic is using NoTouch software from Stratodesk to create a new line of HDX-ready terminals based on the Raspberry Pi thin-client architecture. The architecture is implemented as the ViewSonic SC-T25 HDX Pi, a fully …

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