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Published:2011/4/26 2:20:00 Author:Phyllis

A chip that can transforme DC-DC converters to accurate charger that suitable for any rechargeable batteries has been introduced by Linear Technology Corporation recently. Named as LTC4000, this chip has the function of handling input and output voltages from 3V to 60V and also making back-up mediation between the battery, input supply and load. It can drive topologies like boost, buck, buck-boost, flyback and SE...   (View)

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The NFC Market Will Grow Quickly In The Second Half Of This Year

Published:2011/4/26 1:37:00 Author:Li xiao na

Recently, the NFC cell phone industry has some new change and progress. The frequent movements of the manufacturers indicate a new gestation process; therefore, the practitioners pay attention to this industry again. The report of Forrester shows that shipment of NFC cell phone will reach 40 million sets to 50 million sets in the year of 2011. Experts maintain that the Chinese market will start obviously in the asp...   (View)

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NAND Flash Supply Drops 4％ in 2Q11

Published:2011/4/26 1:05:00 Author:Amy

The earthquake that occurred in Japan on March 11 is supposed to be the reason of decreasing the worldwide capacity of NAND flash memory bits by less than 4 percent in the second quarter of 2011 and capacity should rebound to normal thereafter, according to the DRAMexchange service provided by TrendForce Corp. According to analysis, Toshiba-SanDisk joint venture owned, the Yokkaichi wafer fabs has recovered...   (View)

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MEMS Will Have New Opportunity

Published:2011/4/25 2:47:00 Author:Li xiao na

With the rapid development of automotive electronic, new digital consumer electronic and medical care electronic, the new demand of MEM?and the innovations based on MEMS emerge recently. The different kind of new applications and technologies will bring MEMS will have new opportunity to the MEMS sensor. MEMS was used in the automotive electronic industry at the earliest, which has been considered as the fi...   (View)

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What＇s Going on With Sony＇s PlayStation Network？

Published:2011/4/25 2:33:00 Author:Phyllis

Sony’s PlayStation Network has been down since April 20th, and there’s still no certainty about when it will be back. The reasons for this is complicated and confusing. On the first day of the outage, Sony company has given a short update and announced the breakdown of certain functions of PlayStation Network. On the following days, the company was still investigating the cause of this accident and it remin...   (View)

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U.S. Firms in the Leading Position of Fabless

Published:2011/4/24 21:16:00 Author:Amy

According to the market research firm IC Insights Inc., U.S. companies took nine of the top 10 places and 13 of the top 20 spots in a sales ranking of global fabless chip suppliers, which means that US firms occupy the leading position of fables in global market. It is also said that the top 20 fabless IC suppliers accounted for 77% of the $59.9 billion in fabless IC capacity last year, which slips two...   (View)

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Electrostatic Discharge Protection

Published:2011/4/22 2:30:00 Author:Phyllis

Integrated circuits without ESD protection will suffer from electrostatic discharge in the forms of dielectric failure, ruptured passivation, electrothermal migration, contact spiking, and splattered aluminum. If you want to have a well understanding of ESD, you should get to know about what is the voltage level, the voltage and current waveform, IC-protection structure, test method, and application circuit. <...   (View)

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Integration Of The Chip Is The Core In Smart Phone Market

Published:2011/4/22 1:23:00 Author:Li xiao na

Experts point out that the integration of chip will be the key of the smart phone’s differentiation on Linley Tech Mobile Conference in America. It is predicated that the shipment of smart phone will be 600 million sets in the year of 2014. Machine change trend in future will bring 600 million demand of the smart phone. The pressure of the manufacturers lies in how to reduce the cost. The integration of chip will b...   (View)

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Industrial Utilization of LED-backlit LCDs

Published:2011/4/21 21:32:00 Author:Amy

It is said that Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) is going to produce four products of large format LED-backlit LCD. These TFT-LCDs contain two panels in the 10.4-inch class, one 12.1-inch panel re-issue, and one 15.0-inch panel. The LCDs are suitable for industrial utilizations, such as factory automation, gaming, medical devices, Point of Sale (POS) terminals, transportation and test and measu...   (View)

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The GPU War Will Spread To The Mobile Field

Published:2011/4/21 19:47:00 Author:Li xiao na

Currently, the main suppliers of the GPU have different views in the integration of GPU and CPU. AMD has returned to the performance and compatibility which can be provided by the x86, while Nvidia has integrated the low power ARM core in the GPU. No matter who will become the standard, the manufacturers all throw great stakes in this process. Nvidia maintains that the sales of mobile device will be ten tim...   (View)

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Big Companies Take Measures to Protect Themselves from the Impact of Earthquake

Published:2011/4/21 2:26:00 Author:Phyllis

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan last month has a great impact on the supply of key components on the cellphone market like displays, printed circuit boards and batteries. After the disaster, LG electronics Inc has adjusted its chip suppliers for home appliance products from Toshiba Corp to Hynix Semiconductor and Panasonic. Before that LG sourced more than half of its chip requirements for products like fridges...   (View)

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Smart System Will Replace PC In Processor’s Consumption

Published:2011/4/20 5:04:00 Author:Li xiao na

The report, which is made by IDC’s semiconductor research team, indicates the smart systems will consume more than 12.5 billion pills of processor cores before the year of 2015, and the sales will be more than 100 billion US dollars. The smart system is composed of the programmable processor core, high level operating system and the network connecting device, which has a great contribution to the processor market. ...   (View)

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LED Streetlights Has a Significant Impact on LED Industries

Published:2011/4/20 2:13:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

Cross-strait development of LED streetlights is booming as Mainland China and Taiwan all initiated LED streetlight demonstration projects which spur the growth momentum of LED industry effectively. The progress is so obvious that in 2008 the luminous efficiency of LED lamps was 45 Lm/W and just one year later the number became 80 Lm/W, almost doubled. Whether the quality of the 80 Lm/W LED will pass the cri...   (View)

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MSP430 MCUs Launched by TI Providing the Lowest Power Capacitive

Published:2011/4/20 1:22:00 Author:Amy

The ultra-low-power MSP430 16-bit microcontroller capacitive touch portfolio has been released from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). It is claimed that MSP430 devices offered in this portfolio are the world’s lowest-power touch sense capabilities. It featured as easy-to-use for developers and having cost-effective options for microcontroller-based capacitive touch applications. It also has the advantage of batt...   (View)

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Android System Still Has So Many Problems

Published:2011/4/19 3:44:00 Author:Li xiao na

Recently, the Android is welcomed by people because of the smart phone. Not only some large manufacturers have released the high-end Android system, but also the low and middle manufacturers have the related chips to expand the market share. In the year of 2011, the symbian is unpromising, and the windowsPhone need to be improved; therefore, the Android becomes the only choice for the corporations who want to o...   (View)

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A Crucial and Integral Part of LED: LED Driver IC

Published:2011/4/19 2:39:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

LED is getting more and more popularity today owing to its outstanding features like low energy consumption, high efficiency, long lifespan, environmental friendliness and durability. It’s no exaggeration that LED has become an indispensable in the backlighting areas. It even started to challenge the mainstream CCFL as in large-scaled LCD...   (View)

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Samsung Was Sued for Coping

Published:2011/4/19 0:52:00 Author:Amy

The report on wJS said that Apple Inc. sued Samsung Electronics Co. that Samsung’s Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablet slavishly copied Apple’s iPhone and iPad, which is regarded as increasing tensions of intellectual-property in the rapidly developing mobile market. The lawsuit was filed Friday in the US District Court of Northern California claiming that Samsung copied the appearance, design packagi...   (View)

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Six Steps of Integrated Circuit Designing

Published:2011/4/18 2:31:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

The design process of integrated circuit is so complex that it takes many years of study and practical experience to understand it. The build up of a digital integrated circuit, for example, can be divided into six different stages according to problems discovered at each level: design of system, logic, circuit, layout, fabrication and testing. These steps are not actually sequential and to get things work right, i...   (View)

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The Status Of The Computer Market

Published:2011/4/18 2:23:00 Author:Li xiao na

According to the report of Display Search Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast, the dynamic energy in the movable computer market has reduced. It is predicated that the total shipment will be 277.7 million in the year of 2011, and the growth rate has reduced from thirty percent to twenty-seven percent. Although the growth of netbook and new emerging market is slow, the robust shipment of laptop computer and ta...   (View)

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Crazy Increase of Foundry

Published:2011/4/18 1:00:00 Author:Amy

As we can see, there are more and more leading foundries come into bloom. It is reported by Gartner Inc. that the foundry market is driving aggressive fab expansion plans, which will result in an oversupply situation in the foundry market by late 2011 or early 2012. The fab capacity was over increased by Samsung TSMC, Globalfoundries and UMC. Most firms including HSBC agree that the detailed analysis of the...   (View)

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