Google just ratcheted up the pressure on Apple. For starters on Tuesday, it debuted products Apple lacks -- the Daydream virtual-reality headset, the Google Home digital assistant-powered speaker, the Chromecast Ultra streamer that can ...
Slowdown-scarred, growth-seeking Chinese television manufacturers are shifting their focus to intelligent TVs and overseas markets. Five key reasons characterize the trend: falling sales, the rise of smartphones and personal computers as ...
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The global radio frequency (RF) IC market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% from 2016 to 2020, forecasts a report by Technavio. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the main demand-generating region and ...
According to the new 2016 edition of the IHS Markit's 'Packaged LED Report' (its annual revenue-share ranking of the top LED suppliers in backlighting, automotive, lighting and other applications), Nichia led in both lighting and mobile ...
Tags: LED market, IHS Markit's'Packaged LED Report, Nichia, Samsung
Your event is tomorrow and your images are not showing up on the monitor. It’s late, you traveled all day, and the AV tech is nowhere to be found. There are some simple things that can make or break your next event that we should ...
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Taiwan-based makers shipped 8.448 million LCD TVs in the second quarter of 2016, increasing 14.9% on quarter and 6.1% on year, according to Digitimes Research. 71.9% of the shipments were on ODM/OEM basis and 28.1% OBM (own-brand ...
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A new report claims that Samsung may be preparing to unveil the Gear S3 smartwatch and Galaxy Tab S3 at IFA 2016 in Berlin this autumn. The news comes to us from Italian tech writer Antonio Monaco via Twitter and points to the pair of ...
While OLED panels are seeing increasing use in smartphones and have been adopted for TVs, the technology is unlikely to replace TFT-LCD panels and therefore makers of light guide plates for LCD panels will not see major impacts, said ...
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For the second year running, Netflix has announced a list of recommended smart TV sets. Netflix started issuing TV recommendations last year as a way to push TV makers to improve the general UI and navigation experience. Given how ...
Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched its first products, which are claimed to be the industry's first gallium nitride (GaN) power ICs. Navitas was founded in 2013, and in 2014 investment firm MalibuIQ licensed the ...
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LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has introduced the LUXEON 2835 line as an upgrade for an industry-standard LED package. LUXEON 2835 LEDs is available in five configurations of light output and string voltage and ESD protection for ...
In its report 'Global Packaged Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED Market 2016-2020' – which forecasts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 5% – market research firm Technavio has profiled the top four leading vendors (Cree ...
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Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have arrived. The unsurpassed visual performance and slim form factors of OLED products have been warmly welcomed by consumers. You can find glass-based AMOLED (active-matrix OLED) displays in a range ...
The open-access paper The role of photonics in energy, authored by a team including Zakya Kafafi of Lehigh University, editor of the Journal of Photonics for Energy, traces the development of the science of light from the Arab scholar Ibn ...
Samsung is to incorporate SmartThings control into its entire 2016 TV range. The promise of the smart home revolution hasn't quite come to fruition in 2015 as many people expected, but 2016 has a good shot at taking things further. One ...
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