Keynote at the Computex 2017 CPX Conference by Rene Haas, ARM President, Intellectual Property Group.
ARM Keynote: Rene Haas, ARM IP Group President at Computex 2017 CPX Conference
Posted by – June 4, 2017
Microsoft Keynote: Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Posted by – June 4, 2017
Here’s the part of the Microsoft keynote at Computex 2017 where they talk about Windows 10 support on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, announcing that HP, Lenovo and Asus are going to build thin and light ARM Powered Windows 10 devices with built-in e-SIM LTE support.
Full Windows 10 on ARM 64bit 10nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Qualcomm demonstrates a full version of Windows 10 running every x86 application through emulation technology that Microsoft and Qualcomm have worked on very hardly to hopefully be able to show good performance running any x86 Windows app on ARM, as the Snapdragon 835 is the fastest ARM processor in the world, at least the fastest ever from Qualcomm. The marketing angle will also position every ARM Powered Windows 10 Laptop as being with built-in Gigabit LTE through an eSIM meaning you will be able to click and subscribe to any Data plan or with your telco agreeing add your Laptop simply to your existing LTE Smartphone package. Consumers will be able to expect amazingly fast LTE connectivity, very long battery life, always connected always standby functionality (checking emails etc in the background even while the Laptop is closed), compatibility with all x86 Windows apps (win32), it will be interesting to see if apps like GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere and other more demanding x86 Windows .exe apps if they can install and run with decent enough performance through this emulator. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft and Qualcomm are able to utilise all the hardware acceleration such as the GPU and all 8 cores of the Snapdragon 835 big.LITTLE “Built on Cortex Technology” platform to speed up the performance even of advanced apps and games to somehow magically perform well through the emulator. Possibly that Qualcomm even designed a specific area on the Snapdragon 835 SoC that is specifically designed to further accelerate the x86 Windows app emulation functionality? Windows 10 on ARM devices will hopefully start shipping at prices around $600-700 in extremely thin and light form factories to be made by Lenovo, HP and Asus and hopefully released worldwide before the end of the year.
CLEARink Displays ePaper Reflective wins Best in Show at DisplayWeek 2017
Posted by – June 1, 2017
CLEARink Displays Chairman and CEO, Frank Christiaens and VP of Engineering, Scott Ferguson, won “Best of Show” at SID DisplayWeek 2017 in Los Angeles. CLEARink Displays works on the principle of Total Internal Reflection (TIR) which occurs on the top plane of the display, when light is reflected back creating white state images. The top plane also encompasses an electrophoretic (ePaper) mechanism where an applied voltage causes black particles to rise to the top and cover the bottom surface of the film and absorb light, thus creating the black state. The bottom plane is a TFT substrate similar to what is used in the LCD industry, the backplane allows for pixel formation. This technology has all the benefits of electronic paper including low power, sunlight readability, extremely thin and light and flexible plus the added benefit of lower cost color and video. The CLEARink demos are running video at 30frames/second, some of the demos were hybrid static text and dynamic video on the same page. The company said that they are targeting eSchoolbooks, Wearables, Mobile Devices etc but they can also make products for Electronic Shelf Labels/IoT as well as Signage displays. CLEARink is in trial production in a LCD fab and will have samples ready for the customer in the next few months with mass production in Q1 2018.
faytech 2017 factory tour: Industrial kiosk PC embedded indoor, outdoor touch device manufacturer
Posted by – June 1, 2017
Category: Displays, Factory Tours, Exclusive videos, Allwinner, Intel, faytech, Android, Ubuntu, Windows
Here is my third factory tour with faytech Tech. Co., Ltd (after I filmed the faytech 2013 tour and the faytech 2015 tour) , this time at their newest factory location, seeing over the past few years this company develop from a small startup company to a world leading industrial touch device manufacturer with advanced in-house manufacturing capabilities is quite impressive. You can see for yourself in this video how they develop. In the video, Arne Weber, CEO of faytech, walks us through their new factory. Currently they are on two floors, one for office and production, the other one as warehouse, incoming material check and test area featuring also several special innovative projects.
For any industrial or commercial touch devices projects, for embedded, PC, monitor, outdoor, indoor, rugged or optical bonded you can contact faytech to see if they can provide you with the right solution (as you can see how I filmed how faytech works with their partners and customers in New York for example) doing it their way to combine German engineering with Asian production capabilities and service, interested parties can contact faytech here:
faytech Tech. Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 755 8958 0612
sales@faytech.com
http://www.faytech.com
Fl 5 & 6, Bldg F, First Phase,
Hongmen Tech Zone,
Shangxue Duan, Jihua Road,
Longgang, Shenzhen
http://www.facebook.com/faytechtouch
http://www.twitter.com/faytechshenzhen
AUO shows Foldable AMOLED, Conformable Plastic LCD, Bezel-less displays and 240Hz Monitor
Posted by – May 31, 2017
Category: Laptops, Smartphones, Displays, Gaming, Smartwatch, 4K UHD, Exclusive videos, SID Display Week
AU Optronics R&D Manager JJ Lih presents some of AUO’s latest displays such as their 5″ 1280×720 Foldable Touch AMOLED, 1.4″ and 1.2″ High Resolution True Circular small bezel AMOLED 454×454 for the Smartwatch industry, 5.5″ FHD Super Narrow Border 0.4mm LTPS LCD, 3.5″ 480×320 Plastic Flexible Conformable LCD to be available on the market within one year. 12.3″ FHD AMOLED for in-car Cluster, 12.3″ Free-form LTPS LCD for in-car Cluster. 9″ 1280×800 Curved LCD. 8.9″ Free-form LCD for Rear-view Mirror. 15.6″ QHD 120Hz LTPS LCD for Gaming. 13.3″ 4K Ultra-low Power LTPS LCD using lower 15hz frequency. 13.3″ 4K Ultra Narrow Border 1.5mm LTPS LCD. 15.6″ 4K Ultra Narrow Border 2mm LTPS LCD. AUO also shows their 240Hz World’s Highest Refresh Rate Gaming PC Monitor.
SID Display Week Opening, Ribbon Cutting, 75 videos to come
Posted by – May 31, 2017
I am filming 75 videos at the SID Display Week conference in Los Angeles California. Check back for some awesome 4K videos, demonstrations of the latest most cutting edge displays that are to come in the future, and interviews with the people who invent them.
ARM Mali-G72
Posted by – May 29, 2017
ARM Media Processing Group VP, GM and Fellow, Jem Davies announces the ARM Mali-G72 GPU for Machine Learning, VR & High Fidelity Mobile Gaming. 1 billion Mali-based chips were shipped in 2016, With 1.4x the performance of last year’s ARM Mali-G71 GPU, 17% more performance in machine learning (ML) efficiency, for local offline GPU compute computer vision facilitated by ALU and data path improvements to reduce energy consumed by data movements with 25% higher energy efficiency and 20% better area efficiency, with multiple Bifrost optimizations including increased tile buffer memory, tiler scalability and L1 cache.
ARM Cortex-A75, ARM Cortex-A55, ARM DynamIQ
Posted by – May 29, 2017
For faster ARM Powered laptops, smartphones, servers and more, Nandan Nayampally, GM & VP of ARM’s Compute Processing Group announces the ARM Cortex-A75 and ARM Cortex-A55, the new fastest performance, most power efficient ARM designs for high end performance and for mid-range to entry level processing, the first processors launched on ARM DynamIQ technology, designed from the ground up for AI improvements, low latency, acceleration connections, ARM Cortex-A75 delivers 50% improvement in raw integer performance, even greater gains for specialized workloads at given nanometer manufacturing, with these also working even better on newer smaller nanometer manufacturing making these all that faster. ARM Cortex-A75’s new performance enables faster ARM Powered Laptops and Smartphones with faster performance and better power efficiency, also suitable for infrastructure (servers, networking, more) and self driving cars and other uses in the automotive industry. ARM Cortex-A55 provides the new LITTLE to Cortex-A75’s big, with 2.5x the power efficiency of its predecessor, bringing performance to the edge across a variety of applications and performance points from IOT edge gateways to mainstream. Combining the two new CPUs in a DynamIQ big.LITTLE cluster gives you multiple configurations, and specifically doubles performance in a 1+7 configuration for example.
ARM Computex 2017 Press Conference
Official video of the ARM Press Conference at Computex 2017 in Taipei
source: ARM Taiwan on Facebook
$0.01 Flexible Plastic ARM Processor by PragmatIC
Posted by – May 21, 2017
Enabling Trillions of ARM processors to be made cheaply to be embedded everywhere as envisioned by ARM owner Masayoshi Son, PlasticARM is an implementation of an ARM Cortex-M0 based 32-bit microprocessor SoC in plastic. Using PragmatIC’s technology, the flexible integrated circuit (FlexIC) is implemented in thin film metal oxides on a polymer substrate, with a total thickness of less than 10um. The latest version uses a 1um cell library, delivering a 10x improvement in footprint over the last 2 years, and significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in printed logic. PlasticARM demonstrates the potential for PragmatIC’s ultra-thin and ultra-low-cost plastic electronics to extend from smart packaging into areas such as wearables and security. You can read more about PragmatIC at http://pragmaticprinting.com This video was filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
You can watch the Keynote presentation by PragmatIC at IDTechEx here:
FlexEnable Plastic Flexible Organic LCD (OLCD) Displays
Posted by – May 21, 2017
FlexEnable demonstrates conformable, glass-free Plastic based organic LCDs that are 4x thinner than regluar glass-based LCD, 10x lighter weight, shatterproof, 30 times more bendable and conformable, 3 times higher mobility resulting in higher resolution and upward 1000 times lower power leakage enabling lower power consuming LCD displays, all at similar or lower cost than regular glass based LCD when mass produced! Read more about the FlexEnable Flexible Plastic OLCD at their website: http://www.flexenable.com/technology/flexible-olcd/ Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
Solar-powered car (4-seater) by Solar Team Eindhoven
Posted by – May 21, 2017
Solar Team Eindhoven creates an energy efficient 4-seater family car to make solar cars sexy and user friendly. The World Solar Challenge encourages teams to push the limits of technology, where the Solar Team Eindhoven won the Cruiser Class at Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia where the car covered 3,000 kilometers all the way from Darwin to Adelaide carrying two occupants at an average speed of 76 km/h. It is the ultimate challenge for solar-powered vehicles. Solar Team Eindhoven contributes to a clean world. Their passion is to develop a solar car that is ready for the market of tomorrow. Imagine a world where cars no longer need fossil fuels, where cars are energy positive. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
Flexible low-cost solar power by Kolon Industries
Posted by – May 21, 2017
Kolon Industries presents their flexible organic photovoltiacs for energy harvesting, their flexible OPV with claimed 3-5 years life is great in its apparel and should be everywhere. This has 50% transparency and a bending radius of only 10mm, a low cost roll to roll printing process resulting in “Payback less than 0.2 years”, focusing on the four major business divisions, industrial materials, chemical, films/electronic materials, and fashion, the company is aiming to be a leader in each industry by providing this flexible solar power. Kolon Industries with its Flexible Solar Panel won the Best In Show award at IDTechEx Show in Berlin 2017. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
TriDInnov adds electronics on plastics
Posted by – May 21, 2017
Startup company TriDInnov provides additive metallization for plastic and composite materials electronic packaging, is linked through a closed partnership with equipment manufacturer Kelenn Technology, launching the new Kelenn Technology DMD 100, an off-contact digital dispenser which deposits the TDI thick film formulation EOPROM (primer formulation for metallization process) showcasing their prototype circuits which have been manufactured with the DMD 100, depositing their EOPROM thick film formulation on molded device. TriDInnov’s technology brings to the electronic packaging market a new manufacturing process which reposition the MID towards new business areas such as to add value on composite materials especially in the automotive area. They are to invest in a technology platform in order to manufacture MID prototypes circuits for their customers in order to push their technology acceptance on the market place. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show!
Cytosurge FluidFM µ3Dprinter, world’s first 3D printer at sub-micron direct metal printing
Posted by – May 21, 2017
At the forefront of nanotechnology, additive manufacturing, life sciences and single cell biology, Cytosurge FluidFM µ3Dprinter is the world’s first 3D printer capable of delivering sub-micron resolution in direct metal printing, while offering scalability and good prospects in both production cost and speed. The FluidFM technology opens a new world for metal object manufacturing and enables research opportunities in fields such as microelectronics, semiconductors, surface modification, microbots, sensors, material science and many other fields. Virtually any design can be offered to the system, including overhanging structures with 90 degree angles, without support structures or post processing steps. High-precision surface modification processes can also be executed by printing ultra-thin or structured objects and by depositing multiple metals at the target surface. With the FluidFM µ3Dprinter various metals like Cu, Ag, Au, Pt can be printed. The printing of other metals (Sn, Cd, Cr, Ni etc.) and various alloys are under investigation. Cytosurge won Best Development in 3D Printing Award Europe 2017. Filed at the IDTechEx Show!
TEGnology thermoelectric Energy Harvesting for self-powered Sensor Network
Posted by – May 21, 2017
TEGnology develops and commercializes new materials to be used in thermo electric generation, the material is cheaper and more heat-resistant than other materials on the market has developed costing less than 5% of the competition and is manufacturable in industrial quantities. With an ROI of less than two years, their two new materials exploit waste heat energy recovery very efficiently, useful for markets such as automotive, maritime, bio-fuel, Combined Heat & Power and the Sensor Industry. TEGnology replaces batteries, requires no maintenance, it’s Made in Denmark, it is Low cost and available, uses commonly available materials, no tellurium or lead enables Self-powered wireless IOT sensor for temperature, pressure, vibration and more, it’s high temperature energy harvesting for industry. Filmed at the IDTechEx show.
Bainisha body motion capture using flexible wearable sensors and electronics
Posted by – May 21, 2017
Bainisha shows their body motion capturing in their high performance wearable systems consisting of wearable second skin patches for remote motion capturing, in which batteries, antennas, electronics and sensors (including both the Bainisha sensor and IMU’s to form a hybrid system) are embedded, that can be worn 24/7 up to 3 weeks, delivering a 4D super accurate topological map of the measured body part for top level analytics. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show.
8Power self-powered Sensor Network (IoT with no batteries, no charging)
Posted by – May 21, 2017
8Power presents the Track100, a 100% self-powered Energy Harvesting LoraWan LPWA GPS Tracker for creating Sensor Networks that run on vibrations and solar. These can be installed all over the place, never having to go back to change the batteries nor recharging the devices to power the Sensor Network IoT. 8Power Ltd received the Best Technical Development within Energy Harvesting Award at the IDTechEx Show. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show.
Himaero, Emotional Jewel, Made in Italy
Posted by – May 21, 2017
Himaero presents their first Jewel prototype fully Made in Italy, silver fully handcrafted by the Italian master goldsmith Corrado Di Giacomo and and Murano glass by the Murano glassmaker Stefano Busato, encapsulating technology able to interpret the mood and the emotions of the users, and to change appearance accordingly. Filmed at the IDTechEx Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5c4MZ-j1E
