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Sony unveiled 8K sets, OLED displays and 4K LED sets with acoustic multi-audio technology that makes the entire screen a speaker. They also showed off a new Bvaria family that incorporates AI cognitive intelligence that mimics the human brain to adjust the images for perfect viewing. Cool, we guess! But people can’t be couch potatoes all the time. They need to play games. Panasonic unveiled an OLED set incorporating an HCX Pro AI processor that improves picture quality and delivers the very lowest latency for responsive gaming performance. It also includes an HDMI Signal Power Link that simplifies PC and set-top box connection. LG’s 48-in bendable cinematic sound OLED screen (no speakers needed) can be curved for improved gaming or flat for TV viewing. Growth Returns With nearly everyone working from home at least part of 2020 and students of every age suddenly finding their classroom consisting of a flat screen, people quickly discovered they needed to upgrade their computer systems. As a result, the PC industry enjoyed its biggest year in six years, closing in on roughly 300M units in 2020, according to IDC. But although demand around the globe and in nearly every product segment was growing, there was only one little problem. There was a chip shortage that affected … everyone! While some the chip folks are trying to reverse engineer