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Japanese Earthquake Influences The IT Industry All Over The World

Published:2011/3/21 3:57:00 Author:Li xiao na

The earthquake, tsunami and the following power shortage will influence the electronics assemblies supply in a short term, even the price of some devices will be higher. Because of the short power and terrible traffic, the production of the Flash memory, microcontroller, LCD panel and other circuit component will reduce. Meanwhile, Japan is world’s largest supplier of silicon, which provides sixty percent of world’...   (View)

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The Key to the LED TV Development is High-efficiency Components

Published:2011/3/21 3:36:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

LED television refers to a LCD television that illuminates the display of image by placing LEDs around the outside perimeter of the screen or by setting the them across the whole back of the display. It is an upgraded version of LCD TV which uses fluorescent lights in it basically. LED televisions could be installed with over a thousand LED lights inside, which can be dimmed or go out after a certain amount of use ...   (View)

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Assessment of Japan Earthquake Impact on Semiconductor Industry

Published:2011/3/21 3:13:00 Author:Amy

After 9M earthquake occurred in Japan, the semiconductor industry was slightly impacted, reported the statistics of IHS iSuppli. It was predicted that the output of Japanese semiconductor will be hindered in two weeks; panel firms was not affected directly but the capacity of LCD panel and related components were badly hurt. According to the previous estimate by iSuppli, the revenue of electronic devices pr...   (View)

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Hybrid Location Motivates The Integrated Chip

Published:2011/3/21 1:31:00 Author:Li xiao na

Currently, the positioning technologies, such as GPS+GLONASS, WiFi and sites, are very popular. And the integration of the positioning technology will be the developing tendency in the future. With people’s increasing demand of positioning service, the single GPS technology can not make them satisfied. One thing to be mentioned is that Broadcom is trying to integrate the MEMS with the other positioning technology, ...   (View)

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The Earthquake Proves that WiMax Surpassed 3G Ultimately

Published:2011/3/20 22:49:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

The vice president of Intel, Ton Steenman, who was on the spot before the earthquake was coming said that the 9 magnitude earthquake in Japan on march 11 have proved that WiMax is more reliable than 3G cellular. The 3G networks were completely broken complete in the quake, while that of WiMax didn’t get interrupt and still worked for various kinds of application services like ATM, he said. As for if the st...   (View)

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The Biggest Advantage of LED Streetlight Is Control Function Instead of Conservation

Published:2011/3/20 21:56:00 Author:Amy

In March 11, the Seventh China Road Lighting Forum was held at International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Chongqing. LED streetlight application and trend was focused most attention. After several decades of development, LED has entered into a stage of high brightness white light from previous red/yellow light. The lab notes of luminous efficiency have exceeded 160lm/w and the level of industrializat...   (View)

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Earthquake’s Influence on Global IT Industry

Published:2011/3/18 3:35:00 Author:Amy

As far as we can see, severely damaged fundamental facilities will obstruct the supply of PC equipments. But the global chain storage can remain two weeks, so real shortage and rise in price will not occurred until April lasting into the third quarter of this year. In addition, semiconductor was in high storage before the quake, so it will postpone the situation of shortage. Due to the psychological impact ...   (View)

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Driving Force Of The IC Industry

Published:2011/3/18 3:19:00 Author:Li xiao na

Currently, the world’s environmental problem is urgent, which makes the ecological engineering become the developing trend. Some research indicates that the more advanced of the country, the more obvious of ecological science’s development. Customers have realized the social problems caused by their behaviors in the aspect of ecological science, so they begin to adjust their purchasing choice in accordance with the...   (View)

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Analysis on the Advantages and Limitations of LED Lamps

Published:2011/3/18 2:16:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

With the rapid development and evolvement after entering the market, LED lamps have become the brightest star of 21 century. As more and more people started to realize the significance and benefit of LED, Chinese government promulgated some development planning policies about this industry to show the importance. In this article, the author collected some information about LED lights and hope it can help. ...   (View)

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The Green Chip Technology Enables Breakthrough in Energy Efficiency

Published:2011/3/17 22:55:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

NXP semiconductors recently announced its power supply solution proposal for the front row Green Chip products, which consumes energy that less than 10mW and is supposed to be the lowest among the whole industry. Green Chip power supply IC, also known as switching power controller IC is widely used in cellphone charger, adapter for mobile devices like tablet, and white goods. The first products of this new...   (View)

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The Long-distance Medical Technique Is Blooming

Published:2011/3/17 22:20:00 Author:Li xiao na

With demand for the remote control and long-distance healthcare is increasing, especially in the family heath care institution, disease Control Company and clinical trial groups, this technology has made a big step in its development. Some technologies, such as Bluetooth, NFC, safe data management and the wireless sensor, have caused a revolution of medical care offering method. It also changed the center from the ...   (View)

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Gartner: Asia-Pacific Revenue of Memory Devices Increased by 21.2％ in 2010

Published:2011/3/17 21:03:00 Author:Amy

The American market research company Gartner reported that sales of ECB memory devices in Asia-Pacific area reached historical record with 2.53 billion in 2010 increasing by 21.2% compared to 2009. The vice-president of Gartner Phil Sargeant said that memory devices occupy a significant proportion for IT budget but still have possibilities to control cost. Memory demand can be softened by existing technolog...   (View)

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Android Tablets: The Biggest Competitor of Apple iPad

Published:2011/3/17 3:05:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

Google and Apple are two most famous companies in the whole world, providing the same products with different characters and qualities. As Apple launched the iPad2 recently, manufacturers of android tablet have a clear picture what they are up against, and many people are interested in the comparison between the two high-tech products. Android OS is an operating system supported by Google to purchase the initial de...   (View)

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Earthquake’s Influence On Japanese Electrical Component Industry

Published:2011/3/17 2:24:00 Author:Li xiao na

Japan is the world’s largest production base of RCL and quartz equipment. This earthquake has not jeopardized the factories heavily, but the supply of power and raw material is becoming short. Then the production of the device factory will be influenced. This influence can not be eliminated in the future three to nine months, which makes the short supply worse. The influence is huge especially in the aluminum e...   (View)

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Europe PV Account for 70％ of Global Market in 2011

Published:2011/3/17 0:42:00 Author:Amy

According to the latest research that despite Europe solar industry is facing hard condition, the region still gets the lion’s share o of the global PV business with 70% in 2011. There are 15 major global solar markets and nine of them are in Europe. Europe PV installed capacity will reach 15.7GW this year which is three quarters of global market. Worldwide installed capacity predicted to exceeded 22.2GW. T...   (View)

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A Survive Industry in the Earthquake: LED

Published:2011/3/16 21:58:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

The 9-magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it triggered have great effect on many industries from semiconductors to automakers. Many people wonder that whether the LED industry will striken too by such catastrophic disasters. According to some experts, the answer is no, they point out that the manufacturing process of LED is shockproof, besides the two dominant LED makers in Japan Nichia and Toyoda Gosei are far ...   (View)

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The Low Yield Rate Of Touch Screen Makes The Cost Of IPad2 High

Published:2011/3/16 21:38:00 Author:Li xiao na

The components and suppliers of iPad2 are the same with the first generation. There are some changes on the case and battery, but the touch screen always keeps the same. In these aspects, the iPad2 is similar with iPad2. They use the same component from the NAND Flash to the drive. In addition, iPad2 also applies the same core chip with iPhone 4. The other components, including the application processor, Bluetooth,...   (View)

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The Influence Of Earthquake in Japan On Chip Industry

Published:2011/3/16 4:20:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

Japan is a dominant player in chip industry, producing about one-fifth of the global semiconductors. After the earthquake, many Japanese companies from automakers to electronics firms and component makers are keeping their plants shut down. The supply shortage caused by the quake made the prices of key technology parts raised. If the supply chain can not be recovered within a few weeks, problems like higher price...   (View)

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The Development Of Mobile Television Has So Many Obstacles

Published:2011/3/16 3:33:00 Author:Li xiao na

Although the technology of smart phone is growing quickly, there is still a high wall hindering the development of mobile television. The high wall makes it hard to become a practicable and sustainable industry. Because of the obstacles, many services to broadcast the TV program through the portable devices are not successful. Nowadays, the linear mobile TV is successful in the Japanese, South Korean and Brazilian ...   (View)

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The Cloud Computing Is In The Process Of Being Mature

Published:2011/3/15 22:19:00 Author:Li xiao na

The Chinese cloud computing service is becoming more and more mature. With the rebound of economy, the users are avid for the investment in the cloud computing, including the infrastructure and the new cloud service. It is predicated that the Chinese cloud computing will be different from other countries, because its related conditions are different. Experts maintain that the permeability of the market, policy, sca...   (View)

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