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Samsung unveils micro-LED, lifestyle TVs at CES 2022

Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled its newest micro-LED, Neo QLED and lifestyle TVs during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022, that promise advancements in picture and sound quality, more screen size options, customisable accessories and an upgraded interface.

The Micro-LED, in 110-inch, 101-inch and 89-inch sizes, offers best-in-class picture quality thanks to 25 million micrometre-sized LEDs that individually produce light and colour, creating an incredibly immersive experience.

The 2022 Micro-LED supports 20-bit greyscale depth, meaning that it can express every detail in a scene, offering the finest control with over 1 million steps of brightness and colour levels, delivering a true HDR experience, the company said in a statement.

"With our new lineup of products, we are providing customers an entirely immersive video and audio experience that is customisable to their needs," said Simon Sung, Executive Vice President and Head of the Sales and Marketing Team of the Visual Display Business at Samsung.

The 2022 Neo QLED will provide some of the most pristine images and immersive soundscapes possible.

This year's Neo Quantum Processor introduces advanced contrast mapping with BLU (back-light unit), increasing the brightness level from 12 to 14-bit gradation for greater control of the light source - the Quantum Mini LEDs.

"This allows the TV to control its lighting across 16,384 steps, quadrupled from the previous 4,096 steps," explained the company.

Samsung's 2022 Neo QLED also features Real Depth Enhancer, a multi-intelligence picture quality algorithm. This technological advancement creates a greater sense of realism by determining and processing an object on the screen against its background to create a sense of depth.

Additionally, Samsung's 2022 Neo QLED features EyeComfort mode, which automatically adjusts the screen's brightness and tone based on a built-in light sensor and sunset/sunrise information.

Samsung's 2022 Lifestyle screens come with a new Matte Display with anti-glare, anti-reflection and anti-fingerprint properties being applied to The Frame, The Sero and The Serif models.

The Frame TV comes in sizes ranging from 32-inch to 85-inch.

With the addition of a 65-inch size option, The Serif is now available in sizes ranging from 43-inch to 65-inch.

The Sero offers an optimised watching experience with its new Matte Display in both vertical and horizontal modes, said Samsung.

Samsung's 2022 Smart TVs come with a new Smart Hub that puts content curation and discovery front and centre with their viewing preferences.

(IANS)

CES 2022: This Samsung TV remote uses radio waves from router for charging

Samsung at the CES 2022 has showcased a new TV remote that uses radio waves from the home router to stay charged.

The company had earlier introduced a solar-powered Eco Remote for its 2021 TVs at the CES event last year.

This year, Samsung has added RF (radio frequency) harvesting capabilities that let the remote preserve its charge by "collecting routers' radio waves and converting them to energy," reports The Verge.

The new Eco Remote can also be charged from both outdoor and indoor light or over USB-C.

The TV remote "is meant to better complement Samsung's 'lifestyle' TVs like The Frame, Serif, and Sero.

Samsung's Visual Display Business is making its TVs more sustainable by adopting eco-friendly packaging and solar-cell-powered remote controls.

The remote control is made using renewable plastic and powered by photovoltaic energy rather than disposable batteries.

"Supposing that a typical TV is used for around seven years, changing the batteries in its remote just once a year would mean that 14 batteries would get used and thrown out," according to Kwanyoung Kim, a Samsung engineer.

"If we apply that number to Samsung Electronics' expected annual global TV sales, it amounts to approximately 99 million discarded batteries. If we apply it to annual TV sales overall, it adds up to nearly 3.1 billion batteries," the company said last year.

(IANS)

CES 2022: NETGEAR builds on WiFi 6E leadership with the launch of Nighthawk RAXE300 Tri-band Router - Official statement

- Home networking portfolio of NETGEAR earns CES 2022 Innovation Award Honors across the Board

- NETGEAR has introduced a new router to its award-winning WiFi 6E line-up. Building on the success of the Nighthawk RAXE500, a 2021 CES Innovation Award honoree, the Nighthawk RAXE300 Tri-band WiFi 6E Router provides speeds up to 7.8Gbps while leveraging the new era of fast connectivity on the 6Ghz band, free of interference and congestion, as per official statement

Key Features: 

●   WiFi 6E from the WiFi Leader — Future-proof, cutting-edge WiFi 6E expands WiFi speed, capacity, and bandwidth by up to 200% over WiFi 5.

●   Exclusive NETGEAR Engineering & 6 Pre-optimized Antennas — Get unmatched signal strength, coverage, and performance from NETGEAR’s proprietary WiFi optimization and six antennas hidden within the RAXE300’s wings.

●  Built for Multi-Gig Speeds — Use the 2.5G Ethernet port or 2Gbps link aggregation for Internet connectivity to your modem or connect your high-bandwidth devices on the LAN side.

●   8-Stream Tri-Band Speed & Coverage — 8 WiFi streams (two streams of 6GHz, four streams of 5GHz, and two streams of 2.4GHz).

●  Award-Winning NETGEAR Services — Get robust, best-in-class protection from hackers and viruses for all the devices in your home network with NETGEAR Armor and easily manage content across your kids’ devices with NETGEAR Smart Parental Controls, right in the Nighthawk® App.

CES 2022: Acer Unveils Trio of Chromebooks for Families, Students, and Hybrid Workers

-The Acer Chromebook Spin 513 (CP513-2H) boosts productivity on-the-go with a sleek, convertible design, 13.5-inch VertiView® display with a 3:2 aspect ratio, long battery life and exceptional performance—powered by the octa-core MediaTek Kompanio 1380 processor,  as per official statement

-The Acer Chromebook 315 (CB315-4H/T) expands the company’s extensive collection of large-screen offerings; includes 15.6-inch anti-glare FHD display and numeric keypad,  as per official statement

-The Acer Chromebook 314 (CB314-3H/T) is a portable device with a 14-inch FHD display, featuring the latest Intel processors and an OceanGlass™ Touchpad,  as per official statement

-All three Chromebooks deliver the latest audio and video technologies so multi-tasking families, students and hybrid workers can stay productive, entertained and connected, as per official statement

CES 2022: Acer Announces the Aspire Vero National Geographic Edition

Acer Announces the Aspire Vero National Geographic Edition, a Laptop for a Better Future, as per official statement

-The Acer Aspire Vero National Geographic Edition is a special edition of the Acer Aspire Vero which incorporates design elements evocative of planet Earth

-Each purchase of the National Geographic Edition laptop supports the National Geographic Society — To learn more, visit www.natgeo.com/info

-This sustainably-minded laptop features 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic throughout its chassis, 50% PCR in its keycaps, and has been designed to be easily upgraded/repaired

-The Vero lineup of products are part of Acer’s “Earthion” mission, a platform created to help tackle environmental challenges and push the industry in a greener direction

CES 2022: Intel announcements, launches, updates

Today at CES, Intel made a number of announcements across Automotive, PCs and Graphics, as per official statement.

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Intel launching the 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HK – the world’s best mobile gaming platform – and delivering the new P-series product line for ultra-portable, enthusiast-class performance
The mobile and desktop processors are also enhanced to accelerate IoT application innovation for retail, manufacturing, healthcare and digital safety customers

Intel announced the 12th Gen Intel Core H-series processors – setting the standard as the highest performance laptop processors on the planet. Built on the Intel 7 process node with Intel’s first-ever performance hybrid design, the H-series, led by the flagship Intel Core i9-12900HK, delivers up to 40% higher performance2 for unparalleled gaming experiences and up to 28% faster game play3 than the previous mobile gaming leader in the market, the i9-11980HK.  

Intel showcased more than 20 new devices powered by the 12th Gen Intel Core H-series, with more than 100 devices in total expected to launch with partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Razer. In addition, Intel unveiled a new ultraportable mobile processor – the P-series product line – to bring enthusiast levels of performance to thin-and-light laptops.

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Intel shipping Intel Arc high-performance discrete graphics to OEM customers and announcing more than 50 mobile and desktop customer design wins
 

Intel marked a new era in the discrete graphics market by announcing shipment of Intel® Arc™ graphics (code-named “Alchemist”) to original equipment manufacturer customers. Intel Arc graphics is the brand for Intel’s upcoming consumer high-performance graphics product. It delivers new choice to the industry, including many all-Intel discrete graphics platforms. With more than 50 new mobile and desktop customer designs announced with Intel Arc graphics, including with Acer, ASUS, Clevo, Dell, Gigabyte, Haier, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, MSI and NEC, it is an exciting time for gamers and creators around the world.

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Mobileye announcing the new EyeQ® Ultra system-on-chip for autonomous vehicles relationships with major automakers, including Volkswagen Group, Ford and ZEEKR.
Mobileye announced a new system-on-chip (SoC) that is purpose-built for autonomous vehicles (AVs). Built on Mobileye’s industry-leading EyeQ® technology, EyeQ® Ultra does the work of 10 EyeQ5 SoCs in a single package and was designed to deliver the optimum power performance of a fully self-driving vehicle.

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