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Sales of Fab Tools Surge to Over $71 Billion in 2020

Anand Tech

Secondly, the competition between TSMC and Samsung Semiconductor (which has Foundry and Memory divisions) is escalating and both companies are spending more money on semiconductor equipment. North America. And though Japan is no longer a microelectronics mecca, but Japanese companies still spent $7.58 South Korea.

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NOLO VR Completes $10 Million Series A Financing Led by BlueRun Ventures

Road to VR

The system also allows you to play SteamVR games, provided you download a software called RiftCat for mobile headsets such as Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard. Image courtesy Nolo VR. AntVR’s inside-out tracking for its Mix AR headset is provided by Nolo CV1. ” Zhang says.

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Virtual Reality in Japan – Part 4 – Promotion & Added Value

VRPlayin

Part 2 – VR Zone and Part 3 – The Underdogs have to with venues, and the upcoming Part 5 will also address the ‘VR Arcades’ (nothing the likes available in North America to my knowledge ). But one thing VR does to the new Samsung flagship phone is provide Added Value to the device. VR for Promotional Use.

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90% of Chinese VR Startups Have Gone Bankrupt. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.

VRScout

With notable exceptions, these are often companies producing cheap replicas of existing mobile hardware like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear without any additional, unique features. In many ways it’s still doing a whole lot better than America and Europe. million). It’s growing. Just not in the headset market.

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Intel Calls Off Tower Acquisition, Forced to Focus Solely on Leading-Edge Nodes

Anand Tech

Re-Focusing Solely to Leading-Edge Nodes Without Tower, IFS will need to focus on making chips on just a few nodes ( Intel 16 , 20A, 18A , and Intel 3 ) and will compete directly with TSMC and Samsung Foundry using only these process technologies. These technologies might not be at the forefront of innovation.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

The Daily Beast reported that Luckey raised money for a pro-Trump non-profit called Nimble America, which is dedicated to influencing politics by trolling and bringing Internet memes to real world situations (an example is a billboard in Pittsburgh featuring a cartoonish image of Hillary Clinton, with the caption “Too Big to Jail”).

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Qualcomm Announces New Partners at MWC 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

” T-Mobile, the lead 5G launch partner for Snapdragon Spaces across North America, was “honored” to work with Qualcomm and others to continue “fueling the advancement of XR on our industry-leading 5G network.”