• 28Feb

    Monday heard that at the end of the year Microsoft plans to show a Windows 8 new Tablet PC user interface, which will include many new designs. It is reported that the beta version of this product will be the end of June, that is, Microsoft announced before the end of the fiscal year. SAI U.S. tech blog that, Windows8 will draw on Apple’s interface design and Windows Phone7 the “METRO” development interface.

    However, there are related news, dismissed Microsoft is accelerating the development of new operating system, the rumors, noting that the Tablet PC Windows 8 in the first half of 2012 will be released. Although Microsoft is working to develop ARM version of Windows, but can not guarantee its R & D personnel in accordance with the progress of completion.

    There are currently more than 1,000 Microsoft R & D personnel in the development Windows8 and its ARM version, but this only shows that Microsoft’s strategic plan. Members does not necessarily increase efficiency.

    Most observers hope that Windows 8 will launch in September this year the first test version, but Microsoft usually released after the first test version will be launched for the candidate of one or more versions. Microsoft always uphold the sword of the operating system three years of development progress, it is estimated that Windows 8 will be the official listing of the end of 2012, Windows 7 is the third year after the sale.

    Windows Tablet PC trying to get more recognition, but its market share has significantly lagged behind the Android and Apple’s operating system.

  • 27Feb

    Motorola, the company’s Tablet PC Xoom will be a significant impact on performance. Fiscal year 2010, Motorola Mobile revenue 115 billion, including from mobile devices (including smart phones and tablet PCs) accounted for 68% of revenue. However, the mobile phones sold last year, only 37% of smart phones. Motorola’s mobile product line is still filled with a large number of feature phones; last year, the company’s gross profit margin of only 25.9%.

    However, with the entire mobile phone industry, the same trend, Motorola Mobile is the sales focus to smart phones. The company said in its annual report, the smart phone is able to increase average selling prices and gross margins. Xoom will also produce a similar stimulus.

    Although very difficult to forecast sales of Xoom, but the mobile computing market prospects. Motorola mobile annual report in 2010 is expected to grow this year, Tablet PC business, “more than doubled.” Fourth quarter of 2010, global sales of about 10 million Tablet PC units, Apple iPad occupy 75% market share. At the same time, equipped with Android operating system, Tablet PC market share reached 22%. Motorola believes that tablet PC sales worldwide this year, up from 35 million to 50 million units, Android Tablet PC market share up to 26%, or 10 million sets.

    Xoom strong performance, good initial response, and take the first Android 3.0 Tablet PC first-mover advantage. The device is expected to be sold this year, three million to five million units. Sales of 500 million calculations, Xoom will bring billions of dollars in Motorola’s mobile revenue, gross profit will increase by about 10 billion U.S. dollars. Analysts expected revenue this year, Motorola Mobile is expected to reach 13.3 billion U.S. dollars, net profit of about 3 million. If Xoom outstanding performance, the other product lines are successful, then the Motorola mobile will exceed current expectations of performance.

    With AT & T on sale Atrix 4G smart phones, Motorola mobile now in the United States the two largest mobile operators Verizon and AT & T have the product in the sale. If Xoom get consumers, Motorola smartphone sales will also be driving. Xoom is obviously a strong line of Motorola’s high-tech products complement the company is expected to maintain the tablet offer fresh and positive motivation.

  • 25Feb

    International Association of semiconductor manufacturing equipment Materials (SEMI) and Linx-AEI Consulting released on solar cells (PV) materials market analysis report “Chemicals & Materials for Photovoltaic Cells and Modules”. The report notes that by 2015, solar cell materials market will increase to 16.9 billion.

    Report on the crystalline silicon (Si) solar cells and thin film solar cell modules and modules of various materials used in the analysis of market size. Specific materials include crystalline silica, slurry, silicon gas, liquid, precursor and impurities. Solar cell materials, the report pointed out that the market will be the development follows the trend, first in 2010 increased 114% over the previous year, reaching 6.5 billion. But with the 2011 policy changes in Germany and solar battery module prices are expected to slightly reduce the size of the market. Will be followed by increased demand as the global solar energy continues to grow. The report predicts that by 2015, solar cell materials market will reach 2010 and 2011, nearly 3 times increased to 16.9 billion.

  • 24Feb

    Linear Technology Corporation introduced the second generation of high-voltage battery monitor LTC6803, the device for hybrid / electric vehicle (HEV), electric vehicle (EV) and other high-pressure, high-performance battery systems. LTC6803 is a complete battery measurement IC, includes a 12-bit ADC, a precision voltage reference, a high-voltage input multiplexer and a serial interface. Each LTC6803 can measure up to 12 independent battery cells connected in series. The device’s proprietary design allows multiple LTC6803 can be stacked in series without optocouplers or isolators, allowing for long strings of each joint connecting the battery cell in the precise voltage monitoring. LTC6803 following the September 2008 market introduction of new products after the LTC6802, LTC6802 has proved to be a good development path, while the LTC6803 and its function and leads to the same pin configuration, and achieved a lot in terms of performance improvement.

    At -40 ° C to 125 ° C temperature range, LTC6803 guarantees the maximum total measurement error less than 0.25%. LTC6803 provides from-300mV to 5V measuring range extended battery, which can monitor the chemical composition of a wide variety of battery and super capacitor. Conducted for each battery undervoltage and overvoltage monitoring the situation, an associated MOSFET can be used to over-charging the battery to discharge. A built-in 5V regulator, temperature sensors, GPIO lines and thermistor input provides more functionality.

    Linear Technology’s Signal Conditioning Products Erik Soule, Vice President, said: “Until now, we have the reputation of excellence with the battery pack into the field more than the monitor series two years, we are pleased to offer this to customers enhanced products LTC6803 . global automotive manufacturers and other customers have embraced the company’s solid Linear battery monitor, and we believe this new member of the family of the next generation of HEV and EV will provide excellent performance. ”

    Linear Technology Design Manager Mike Kultgen, said: “LTC6803 to meet the precise needs of the latest high-performance batteries. In the harsh automotive environment, it can ensure accurate, safe, reliable and error-free work.”

    To long-term storage of the battery pack, the integrated battery management system (BMS) current consumption capacity of the battery pack may be out of balance. LTC6803 to standby mode to eliminate the concern, the model only consumes less than 12uA. In addition, LTC6803’s power supply input and battery pack is isolated, which allows the device to draw current from a separate power supply. When this input power supply, the current drawn from the battery to less than 1uA.

    LTC6803 design beyond the automotive and industrial applications on the environment, reliability and security requirements. The device’s technical specifications for the -40 ° C to 125 ° C operating temperature range of fully worked out. It is designed to comply with ISO26262 (ASIL) standard system is designed, and that a complete self-test failure can be delayed to ensure that the situation does not occur. In compliance with the standards, LTC6803 integrates a redundant voltage reference, a rich logic test circuit, open wire detection capabilities, and a watchdog timer, in order to achieve fail-safe design. LTC6803 to withstand up to 75V for the voltage and design, which contains 12 batteries for a full battery strings for more than 20% of the over-voltage margin. 1MHz serial interface with packet error checking functions, and for a lot of noise and transients in the presence of an environment designed to operate.

  • 23Feb

    Chinese news report, according to The Wall Street Journal, Google plans to release later this week named a Cloud Connect software synchronization tool for Microsoft Office. The software allows users to synchronize office documents to the Web format, thus achieving more than editing and cooperation.

    In addition to search engines, Google hopes will boost the company’s another fast-growing business network for corporate users that software business. The company’s Google Apps to provide network document processing, spreadsheet and Web browser, operating through the collaboration tool, which is Google’s services as part of Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Office applications to compete.

    It is reported that, after the company last year launched a beta version in November. The company said that this tool can upload Office documents to Google’s servers, and give the document a unique network address, which the user may be via any Internet-connected device through its deal with Google Docs. In addition users can also Office software to deal with these documents.

    Cloud Connect will pay individual users and Google Apps users free of charge.

  • 23Feb

    “Watson” is 4 years ago, IBM developed a quick answer involving puns and word games machines and other complex issues, named “Watson” to commemorate the IBM founder Thomas J · Watson and taken. IBM developed “Watson” to complete a daunting challenge: to build a capacity to compete to answer questions of human computing systems. This requires the sufficient speed, accuracy and confidence, and to use natural human language to answer questions. This system is not connected to the Internet, it will not search through the network, relying on memory database to answer.

    “Watson”It looks like just a piece will sound the display, but the real “Watson”is a screen behind the 90 servers. Each server has four 8-core central processing unit, memory, more than 15T bytes. In its internal memory a large number of books, news and information on the film script, Sea of Words, Selections and the “World Book Encyclopedia”(World Book Encyclopedia) and other information of millions of copies. When prompted, read the question, “Watson” in less than three seconds in their database “digging three feet” for up to 200 million in the long search for information on where to start.

    “Watson”"extremely intelligent”, but it can also make some low-level errors. For example, the host asked what the first major U.S. city to the airport named after a hero of World War II, the second largest airport, named after a battle in World War II, the correct answer is Chicago, and “Watson”went so far to the Canadian city “Toronto “answer.

  • 22Feb

    According to foreign media reports, an HP employee in this week’s meeting, HP’s vice president of the Group said Todd Bradley, Hewlett-Packard will launch the first quarter of next year, WebOS (net purchase lowest price 4599 yuan) Tablet PC , The internal code-named “Hurricane. ”

    Since HP acquired in the generous and mobile operating systems WebOS Palm, HP executives said in public on many occasions, the company will fully absorb the Palm’s various technical resources, and continuously integrated with their own products, but in a different form of WebOS System into the consumer goods (Tablet PC, smart phones, printers, etc.) in order to provide better, more abundant products to consumers.

    But HP also said that in different product areas, still according to the different needs of users, using different platforms, not just rely on the WebOS system. HP executives say, in the business office area, they are still the main operating system will windows7 is not yet stable and effective system to replace.

    However, the present situation, the operating system HP importance of WebOS significantly higher than windows7 touch system, which also led HP’s tablet PC-based windows7 system can not be listed or delay the public announcement, HP said that we do not know The “windows7 Tablet PC need to re-evaluate, ” which eventually will lead to abortion of products?

  • 21Feb

    The development of new energy vehicles, the battery industry has brought vigor, and the battery problem of pollution should not be ignored, thereby making battery recycling business as a public good of environmental protection.

    Shenzhen, TELI scrap battery recycling, general manager of the Vibration Technology Co., Ltd., said electric vehicle battery recycling scrap, is a real sense to do a zero pollution, the full realization of the environment. The battery recycling market with plug-in electric vehicles and non-electrical appliances continue to expand the development, promotion of environmental protection is a priority, although these used batteries have no value, but the battery recycling is a matter benefits the country.

    But the battery recycling is also facing a lot of “embarrassment”, battery recycling post-processing technical problems, policy issues, trade system is not perfect, and many other issues. Zhang Yongxiang said that in the cell processing technology, the Thai security forces adopted a reasonable, environmentally friendly processes and methods (roasting, extraction), absolutely no secondary pollution.

    The recycling of used batteries according to chemical composition, nickel metal hydride nickel-cadmium batteries, lithium ion batteries, lead acid batteries, alkaline batteries each have a set of processes. Finally, each process are extracted from the raw materials necessary for the battery and the nickel hydroxide, lithium cobalt oxide, lead oxide, graphite powder, so that the zero-emission dealing with used batteries and energy recycling.

  • 18Feb

    SAIC’s first mild hybrid, the use of lithium-ion battery, converted from the current Roewe (Roewe) 750. It is said that Shanghai Automotive Industry (Group) Corporation is expected to begin volume production at the end of 2010 its first hybrid. Said one person from SAIC, the car will be converted from the current SAIC Roewe (Roewe) 750.

    Roewe 750 is a platform based on the Rover 75 mid-size sedan, the platform is the SAIC in early 2005 to the British company bought MG Rover. The car will be a mild hybrid, equipped with an electric motor to assist the forward cars. Alone can not drive motor vehicles. SAIC’s this person said, the car is the lithium-ion batteries installed in more than fuel economy standard of 20% of the Roewe 750.

    According to industry sources familiar with the situation said the lithium-ion battery will be U.S. supplier Johnson Controls Inc. Companies, while the British engine technology company Ricardo Plc. The transformation of the company responsible for the transmission system.

    SAIC also plans to launch the motor car a hybrid electric car, but the specific time has not disclosed. Last November, SAIC in Shanghai established a special subsidiary of the development of new energy vehicles. SAIC said in a statement released by the subsidiary cost of 20 billion yuan (2.92 billion U.S. dollars), will be specifically developed for SAIC motor car and electric hybrid powertrain and vehicle control systems.

    SAIC began in 2005 with the Shanghai Institute of Automotive Engineering of Tongji University jointly develop new energy vehicles, including fuel cell cars. But Global Insight Research Corporation in Shanghai, said analyst Wu Duan, SAIC’s recent moves show that the state-owned car manufacturers have shelved or at least slowed down the development of fuel cell vehicles.

  • 17Feb

    Sony announced the development of professional-level Full HD OLED screen TRIMASTEREL, it can reveal the degree of pure black color, fast response time, color reproduction capability.

    TRIMASTEREL divided into 17-inch (BVM-E170), 25-inch (BVM-E250) are two models, respectively, on May 1 this year, July 1, priced ¥ 1,312,500 (approximately 10.3 million) And 2.415 million yen (about 19 million).

    The professional display with a slim aluminum body design, the thickness of 148mm, it is equipped with newly developed OLED panels, due to characteristics of self-luminous dark color it can be shown, the top of Sony’s exclusive micro-photoluminescence (SuperTopEmission) technology to have A high aperture ratio, which can effectively increase the luminosity of organic materials to enhance the luminous efficiency, increase the brightness.

    OLED itself has the advantage of quick response, it can eliminate the occurrence of phenomena such as dynamic blur, fast-moving sports and other programs can also be smooth to watch. Sony used the board to improve the light-emitting organic material processor, it can make the screen colors to achieve consistency of performance, and enhance life through the correct control and to strengthen its long term reliability.

    New 10-bit color input screen, 1024 gray levels, dynamic contrast ratio of 100 million: 1, can accurately restore the color of object. In addition, their resolution is 1920×1080 pixels, 16:9 aspect ratio, up and down about 89 degrees angle, with HDMI, DisplayPort, 3G-SDI, SD-SDI and HD-SDI interface.

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