Los Angeles— iHollywood Forum, an event partner, hosted a media event entitled “Future of 3-D for film, TV, video, games, mobile, and the Internet” on Monday June 14, 2010. The first keynote speaker was Eisuke Tsuyuzaki, CTO, Panasonic Corp. of America. 3-D will see a rapid transition based on the industry experience with HT deployment….
The challenge of advanced process technologies used in semiconductors, and the criteria of design closure is not sufficient to insure that a product will work, they need to use manufacturing (MFG) closure. MFG closure is expanding on-die design closure to include advanced process characteristics, variability, and assembly including multi-die configurations. This is targeted at the…
Connections: the Digital Living Conference, Santa Clara, CA—a panel looked at on-going efforts to implement the connected consumer. The moderator, Kurt Scherf, vp at Parks Associates, started by asking about panelists efforts at implementing lockers. Kanaan Jemili, VP at Divx, stated that work is progressing on software, but they need to address many platforms to…
Connections: the Digital Living Conference, Santa Clara, CA—in a keynote talk, Scott Birnbaum, vp, Samsung LCD Business Unit, talked about “LCD TV: gazing into a liquid crystal world”. After providing background information on Samsung, Birnbaum talked about the changes in homes and televisions over time. In 1938 black-and-white televisions became available. In 1956, color TV…
Connections Digital Living Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Mitch Singer, president of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) and CTO of Sony Picture Entertainment presented a talk on “Entertainment in a Connected World”. So far, the industry has been focusing on developing the hardware and some proprietary infrastructure for anytime, anywhere entertainment. Four years ago, the industry…
Samsung shows off Tangjeong manufacturing complex by Tets Maniwa. In a market where 80 percent of the TVs are LCDs, Samsung has a 20 percent market share, the largest of all the vendors. To make all those TVs, Samsung’s Tanjeong, meaning a spring—a source of water—in Korean, manufacturing facility, one of their four sites,…
In order to address the growing need for computing and electronic processing in portable and high functionality design, TSMC, the worlds largest independent semiconductor manufacturing foundry, released their reference flow 11 for 28nm/22nm processes. The technology driver for these processes has shifted from the historic memory designs, and then processors, to the current System-On-a-Chip (SOC)…
The pervasive need for video information has driven the requirements for flat panel displays and touch screens to being needed in outdoor harsh environments. Sunbrite TV designs and manufactures flat panel displays that operate from -24F to 122F including wet conditions. Targeted for commercial applications, the sets are optimize for operation as a traditional TV…
Now the we have entered the unofficial beginning of summer, we can anticipate a shorter commute to work, for those who still have jobs. The summer blockbuster movie season is upon us and you can choose from a number of 3-D movies at your local multiplex, if the theater has the bandwidth to show more…