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Science & Engineering Festival will be held on April 28, 29

Published:2012/4/19 3:49:00 Author:Ecco

We’ll be unpacking boxes of old iPods and iPhones and setting them out for kids to tear apart in less than two weeks. That’s one of the fun activities planned for the Innovation Generation (iGEN...   (View)

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TSMC will offer only 20-nm node process

Published:2012/4/19 3:17:00 Author:Ecco

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) will offer only one process at the 20-nm node. That will be a change from the multiple processes that the foundry giant has offered customers for the past several nodes. Shang-yi Chiang is the executive vice president and co-chief operating officer at TSMC. He said the firm might also offer an 18- or 16-nm process node after 20-nm if lithography technology...   (View)

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Photonica 2012 in Moscow

Published:2012/4/18 2:23:00 Author:Li xiao na

Organized by Expocentre, ZAO and Laser Association, the 7th edition of International Specialized exhibition is held at ZAO Expocentre Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russia, and March 17th to 20th 2012. State Committee on Science and Technologies, the Republic of Belarus, European Optical Society, ТVDI Technologiezentrum and L...   (View)

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Nokia faces long, painful, uncertain and arduous recovery for the market leadership

Published:2012/4/18 1:07:00 Author:Ecco

Today, Nokia announced that it would reduce the first quarter forecast and expects its non-IFRS Devices & Services operating margin in the second quarter 2012 to be similar to or below the first quarter 2012 level. However, the investors of Nokia Corp. expect the near certainty that the company will emerge from the ongoing restructuring painfully smaller and possibly less profitable. They face a long, uncert...   (View)

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Google is expected to support Android with MIPS Technologies

Published:2012/4/17 1:33:00 Author:Ecco

Google is going to improve its support in Android for cores from MIPS Technologies. Google is expected to provide full support for the MIPS application binary interface in all Android code and librari...   (View)

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Rightware offers Basemark CL for OpenCL-related software and hardware

Published:2012/4/17 1:07:00 Author:Ecco

Rightware Oy has announced a benchmarking system called Basemark CL for OpenCL-related software and hardware. The group also has developed a licensable 3-D graphical user interface called Kanzi. Basemark CL is used to test and optimize OpenCL implementations as it provides performance measurement capabilities for computer a...   (View)

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E Ink improves Pearl-white display to debut in next-gen Kindle DX

Published:2012/4/17 1:00:00 Author:Ecco

E Ink has improved its paper-white display. The previous display technology was already the whitest of available reflective displays, but the company has moved to stay one step ahead of its competitors by upping the contrast ratio by a claimed 50 percent over competing technologies. When it debuts in Amazon’s next-generation, large-screen Kindle DX e-reader, the technology will show off its claimed 50 perce...   (View)

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The Sales of Panel Computer will Reach 120 Million in 2012

Published:2012/4/16 22:53:00 Author:Li xiao na

Gartner, the famous market research firm, has declaimed that the sales of panel computer will reach 118.9 million in 2012, and the growth rate can be 98%. It is estimated that the iPad has taken 60% of the market ratio; The Kindle Fire and the Windows 8 which will be released later this year are taken into consideration. The sales of ipad were 40 million in the last year; whiles the sales of Android panel computer ...   (View)

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A Two Iinput Voltage Monitor Released by Linear Technology

Published:2012/4/16 4:46:00 Author:Li xiao na

A two input voltage monitor that draws only 850nA of quiescent current has been released by Linear Technology. Two adjustable monitoring inputs in the range of 2.5V to 36V are provided by LTC2960 which can provide un...   (View)

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Nvidia’s engineers call for move to 450mm wafers in chip design

Published:2012/4/16 3:07:00 Author:Ecco

Sameer Halepete, vice president of VLSI engineering at Nvidia, said that a diverse host of new technologies and methods will be needed to keep the industry on track to profitably deliver a trillion-transistor device by the end of the decade. Nvidia’s top engineers call for a move to 450mm wafers as one part of the solution to the growing c...   (View)

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HIS announced that Pure-play foundry market would grow 12％ in 2012

Published:2012/4/13 3:11:00 Author:Ecco

According to the market research company HIS, the global pure-play semiconductor foundry business will grow 12% to 2012 from 2011. The business will grow to $29.6 billion in 2012, up from $26.5 billion in 2011. Len Jelinek, director and chief analyst of semiconductor manufacturing at HIS, announced that pure-play foundry growth was b...   (View)

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Graphene composite is the more efficient way for cooling chips than copper

Published:2012/4/13 3:07:00 Author:Ecco

The grapheme (pure crystalline carbon) is a new composite material that offers a more efficient and less expensive way of cooling electronic devices than copper alone. Carbon will be used to replace semiconductors, conductors and even insulators in future electronic devices and its already happening one application at a time. Jag Kasichainula, North Carolina State University researcher, announced the therma...   (View)

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A Family of Dual-core SOCs has been Developed by Amlogic

Published:2012/4/13 2:20:00 Author:Li xiao na

A family of dual-core SOCs based on the Cortex-A9 processor architecture has been developed by the Fabless chip company Amlogic. These devices are licensed from ARM Holding plc. Amlogic is one of a number of Chinese-US fables chip companies, which has offices on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif...   (View)

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UBM starts teardown analysis of Intel Ivy Bridge CPU

Published:2012/4/12 2:57:00 Author:Ecco

UBM TechInsights announced that they would start a teardown analysis of an Intel Ivy Bridge (View)

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Foxconn makes a moment of reckoning for electronics

Published:2012/4/12 2:50:00 Author:Ecco

According to market research firm IHS iSuppli, Foxconn could be a moment of reckoning for the electronics industry similar to what occurred in the footwear and apparel industry in the 1990s,. Foxconn, the world’s largest maker of electronic (View)

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M2B and M2C are the Ways out for SME in China Electronic Industry

Published:2012/4/11 22:50:00 Author:Li xiao na

Liangxianping, the famous economist in China, has given the suggestion towards the development of small and media electronic enterprise at the SME Summit. Nowadays, China is entering the consumption age of M(manufacture) type. The small and media electronic enterprise should take the development model of M2B and...   (View)

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NXP and Segger develop ARM MCUs with emWin graphics for free

Published:2012/4/11 2:39:00 Author:Ecco

NXP Semiconductors has developed its ARM-based microcontrollers with the free emWin graphic software library and graphical user interface (GUI). The Segger Microelectronics GmbH (Hilden, Germany), a provider of hardware and software development tools and embedded software， would develop the emWin library. Compatible with both single-task and multi-task environments, emWin is suited to the LPC1788, which is ...   (View)

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The Second SME Summit of China electronic Industry

Published:2012/4/11 1:39:00 Author:Li xiao na

The Second SME Summit of China electronic Industry is held in Shenzhen at April 10th. Finding the solution of enterprise’s development is the subject of this summit. Langxianping, the famous economist in China, has attended this summit; some representatives from influential firms will also join t...   (View)

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India is expected to be fastest growing chip consumer in 2012

Published:2012/4/10 19:54:00 Author:Ecco

According to Gartner (market research firm Gartner Inc), mobile phones, PCs and LCD TVs will account for nearly three-fourths of India’s semiconductor consumption in 2012. So, India is expected to be the fastest growing market in terms of semiconductor assumption in 2012. According to Gartner’s research, India’s chip consumption is pro...   (View)

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China LED Fair 2012 is Held in Shenzhen Now

Published:2012/4/10 1:43:00 Author:Li xiao na

The China LED Fair 2012 is held at Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center, April 10th to April 12th. It is the most important platform of the related field, which is co-organized by China Electronic Appliance Corporation (CEAC) and Shenzhen LED industry Association. Integrating the industry sources ...   (View)

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