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ARM began to develop new products to break the battery bottleneck

Posted by admin on August 24, 2011
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Palo Alto, California - Silicon zoom and battery technology in mobile communication system in the way of great opportunities station major obstacle, said in his keynote address, an ARM implementation.

Segars Simon said, “silicon scaling will end at some point,” the tone of each year in the ARM physical IP division general manager of Hot Chips event. Importantly, there is a genuine need for a new battery technology.

He said, surveying a small part of a single nanometer in diameter and close to nanometer digital process technology of silicon atoms, “You can only scale so far, we need to, like other group III-V semiconductor materials.”

Difficult to provide production quality of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology has created the problem. Today’s immersion system chip makers to use sophisticated dual-graphics technology, while waiting for their EUV, may be required for 14nm node.

You need to generate a 200-300 wafers per hour, and today’s EUV technology machines for about five wafers per hour can be done now, some have questioned whether the mainstream - a lot of research still need to enter it.

Need more performance and power consumption also contributed to the complexity of multiple power domains, and timing closure. However, ARM EXEC commitments, including the 2015 Cortex A15 processor completely across multiple CPU and GPU’s consistent progress.

Battery technology seems equally challenging, increasing only about 11% per year, far behind the pace of Moore’s Law. Even maintain, sluggish rate “will need some special materials such as silicon alloy or carbon nanotube battery is really rubbish,” he said.

On the other side of the barrier is a huge mobile opportunity. All figures are large, noting that last year 40 million mobile phone users market, sales of 280 million smart phones. Although the company has made unexpected progress in the future there are several issues and the future will not be like the past.

Lenovo or Samsung has the intends to acquire HP PC business

Posted by admin on August 24, 2011
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August 20, according to foreign media reports, recently, according to industry analysts said the spin-off or sale of HP’s PC business will be acquired by Lenovo and Samsung. As of press time, HP has yet to make any comment on this news.

According to Ovum and IDC Research analyst said the company would most likely buy HP’s PC business, but from Ovum analyst Kate Lu homes (Carter Lusher) that, to compensate for market coverage and product line gaps Samsung may also purchase HP’s PC business.

The IDC report published in the, as “to become a leader in the global PC market, the two companies have developed a corresponding development plan, if the implementation of effective, they will change the pattern of the global PC market.” But for Lenovo, the acquisition of HP’s PC business will increase its global market share more than doubled, more than Dell. According to market research firm Gartner, the research data, the acquisition of HP’s PC business, Lenovo’s market share by 12% raised to 30%, 13% more than Dell and Acer’s 11%.

As for Samsung, the acquisition of HP’s PC business will help expand its revenue as the most leading-edge electronic products manufacturers. Samsung said in February that the company plans to launch high-end models, the notebook business revenue in 2011 increased 80%.

However, some analysts said that as in the field of smart phones and tablet PCs to compete with Apple, Samsung, HP may only webOS interest to them. Acer Foxconn and other companies also are likely to cherish for HP’s PC business plan.

Survey shows that Android has occupied 20% tablet pc market share

Posted by admin on August 17, 2011
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August 13 morning news, the U.S. market research firm ABI Research released a report Thursday that the 2015 global media panel shipments are expected to exceed 120 million units. Although Android has over the past 12 months, won 20% of the tablet PC market share, but not a separate product enough to confront Android iPad.

ABI Research Mobile Group director Jeff Orr (Jeff Orr), said: “A lot of manufacturers have launched a media panel, but not enough of a real threat to Apple and many similar configuration with the iPad or even higher prices. Apple never sit still, the company has launched the second generation iPad, and the price remains the same. ”

System development division hindered the media, brought trouble to the developers. ABI Research, but still believe that this year there will be more than 50 media companies launch low-cost flat-panel, so as to promote the development of this area, but also to the public users a bad impression. Excellent user experience is to promote the development of the key factors in this market.