Appliance (2011/04)

Fastest ADLINK SATA 6 Gb/s industrial-grade SSD Was Announced

Published:2011/4/29 1:23:00 Author:Amy

It is sad that ADLINK Technology Inc. has introduced the ADLINK ASD Series of industrial-grade solid state drives (SSDs) which is the fastest SATA6 Gb/s. It is designed for use in harsh environments and rugged applications. The new SSDs feature a SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA III) interface in order to match the data transfer capabilities of second generation Intel® Core™ processor-based platforms. The company sai...   (View)

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LED Open Signs Help to Attract More Customer for Stores

Published:2011/4/27 4:04:00 Author:Phyllis

Walking on the street and looking around, what can catch your eyes? Yeah first are those beautiful windows that full of wonderful things inside there, they attract you to walk into the shop and take out your credit card. But today I would like to talk about something else beside shopwindows that also is important for luring customers, that is the LED Open Signs. LED products are always famous for its advant...   (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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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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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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