Jon Peddie

Curvy, touchy, illuminated, and animated control surfaces

Founded in 2016 in Royal Wootton Bassett near Swindon, Uniphy has developed a 3D smart-surface solution. It combines novel algorithms and patented technologies, and uses standard materials and mainstream manufacturing processes. The result is touch screens that can be formed on various surfaces and include touch sensitivity to create smart 3D interfaces.

Chiplets need a home—UCIe has one for them

Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) is an open specification that defines the interconnect between chiplets within a package, enabling an open chiplet ecosystem and ubiquitous interconnect at the package level. Forming an open industry standard organization around UCIe are Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, and TSMC. The feasibility of implementing complex systems … Read more

Do you use a stylus?

Five years ago, we wrote in TechWatch about the Universal Stylus Initiative (USI). It’s been as successful as we forecasted, and now the Universal Stylus Initiative just launched Version 2.0 of its active stylus specification. Google was one of the first adopters with its Chromebooks. Version 2.0 is the only open-standard, active stylus solution. The specification incorporates new features including: … Read more

Gunnir enters AIB market with Intel GPU

China-based Gunnir has introduced three AIBs and got featured on Intel’s newish GPU website along with Asus as users of the Intl Iris Xe DG1 GPU. Gunnir’s page, in Chinese, reveals the following (after a Google translation):  Gunnir’s Lanji DG1-based AIB. (Source: Gunnir)   The company offers two additional DG1-boards: the Iris Xe IndexV2 and the Iris Xe Max Index … Read more

VESA DP Ultra-high Bit Rate device certification program

VESA-certified DP40 and DP80 UHBR cables (pictured above) guarantee display connectivity and operation at the highest performance levels introduced with DisplayPort 2.0. Got DP 2.0 but aren’t feeling the bandwidth expected? It could be those cheap cables you bought. VESA is going to help you with that. The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has announced its certification program for the … Read more

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5

Happy researchers running their screen with a ball-point pen. (Source: Lenovo)   Lenovo has done a springtime refresh of their mobile office products and brought some new, powerful features to the enterprise market. Announced at MWC, Lenovo showed the latest additions to its ThinkPad and ThinkVision portfolios. The ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 is powered by an Intel vPro with … Read more