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Flexible display market to reach US$ 200 billion in next 5 years, as per Futuresource
Products such as TVs and smart phones with flexible displays offer a new market opportunity, due to which value of products involving flexible displays is forecasted to grow over US$ 200 billion within next 5 years, according to Futuresource Consulting. Although products such as curved TVs alread
3 min readGlobal LED display market in 2016 up 7% to reach $4.5 billion
Futuresource Consulting reported the global LED display market closed 2016 with a mounting value of $4.5 billion, up 7% from $4.2 billion the previous year. Futuresource Consulting finds year 2016 saw the value of the monochrome/tri-colour LED display market value fall, year-on-year by 5%, now co
3 min readIndia forecasted to become world's 3rd largest solar market in 2017
Taiwan based market researcher EnergyTrend has predicted that India to become the 3rd largest solar market in the world in year 2017. EnergyTrend expects that India to add at least 10 gigawatts to its domestic PV installations in 2017.
2 min readUSB 3.0 Camera for machine vision applications
e-con Systems launched USB3.0 embedded camera module for applications such as Machine vision, barcode detection on moving objects and object tracking. The See3CAM_130, a 4K Autofocus USB 3.0 Camera is based on the 1/3.2-inch AR1335, a CMOS image sensor from On Semiconductor can produce Ultra HD (3
2 min readThe smart LED bulbs from Sengled uses Silicon labs' Zigbee chips
Silicon Labs has announced that its wireless SoCs and zigbee stack is used in the Element bulbs from a company called Sengled to connect easily to multi-node mesh networks deployed in smart homes. Sengled's smart and intelligent lighting products can be controlled using iOS and Android apps on yo
1 min readWVGA TFT-LCD modules from Mitsubishi for rugged applications
The Japanese electronics component maker Mitsubishi Electric launched a new Tough Series TFT-LCD modules, a WVGA model for wide-ranging applications in construction, agricultural vehicles, factories and more. The 7.0-inch and 8.0-inch module versions offer vibration resistance up to 6.8Gs, seven
2 min readLaser diode for 100G CWDM4 data center is stable over wider temperature
CEL said it has made available Renesas' new series of semiconductor Laser Diodes, the “NX6375AA Series” into North America. The new laser diode series NX6375AA is designed for use in reliable high-speed optical transceivers and optical modules connecting high performance cloud computers. The newl
2 min readHighest brightness red laser for large size projectors
Mitsubishi Electric has announced a new continuous-wave (CW) laser diode (LD), the ML562G85 delivering highest output power of 2.1W emitting 639-nanometer(nm) red light for projectors. This high-power laser diode will serve the light needs of large size high brightness projectors. Optical compon
2 min readPanasonic develops IPS LCD with 600x higher contrast ratio
One of the leading Japanese electronics company Panasonic has developed its first IPS liquid crystal panel which achieves a high contrast ratio of over 1,000,000:1, and is 600 times that of conventional LCD panels, a far higher performance. The Other features in this new LCD panel tech inlcudes,
2 min readFLIR acquires machine vision camera vendor Point Grey Research
Image processing technology expert FLIR Systems has aquired another image processing technology expert Point Grey Research for an approximate price of $259 million. Point Grey research designs machine-vision supporting cameras and other accessories to develop that in their systems. FLIR supplies
1 min readMStar SoC MSC318 paired with OmniVision IR sensitive image sensors
Image sensor maker OmniVision and image signal processor chip maker MStar are partnering to make their devices work with each other, so that designing is made simple when a designer selects both of these devices. The image sensors OV9756 and OV4686 are light and infrared sensitive and are supported
3 min readWXGA color TFT-LCD modules with projected capacitive touch
Mitsubishi has launched a 10.6-inch WXGA color TFT-LCD modules with projected capacitive touch panels using cover glass of up to five millimeters in thickness. The Sample quantity of LCD’s are available from November 30 from Mitsubishi sales offices worldwide. The technical features of Color TFT-
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