Industry News (2011/09/01)

The Status of Tablet Market

Published:2011/9/1 22:50:00 Author:Li xiao na

Apple’s apps processor is the market leader tablet processor, which is always applied for the iPad. According to statistics, the market share of its tablet processor had reached 61% in the first quarter of this year. Nvidia is the nearest rival to Apple’s A4 and A5 iPad processors. Nvidia’s Tegra 2 processor is a dual-core...   (View)

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The Improvement of Field Sequential Displays

Published:2011/9/1 21:53:00 Author:Li xiao na

As we know that the GPEG’s Field Sequential Displays is a great success. Then the engineering teams of GPEG are trying to enhance their performance. So the User experience also can be improved. Improvements to the RGB backlight and the LC fluid have resulted in each pixel now displaying twenty seven colours, an increase of over 3x from the original design. This also has the effect of improving contrast which is now...   (View)

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RaspberryPi Foundation is used to Cultivate Young Programmers

Published:2011/9/1 4:07:00 Author:Li xiao na

The RaspberryPi Foundation is built to put computers in front of children for £15, has taken delivery of 50 engineering prototypes. The final version will be released at the end of this year. The foundation is expected to cure the programmer shortage by inspiring people to take up ...   (View)

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Debut DSPs of ADI and TI

Published:2011/9/1 3:40:00 Author:Amy

In order to bring sophisticated signal processing to a broader range of cost-sensitive applications, DSP vendors-Analog Devices and Texas Instruments have endeavored to cut prices of their latest processors. TI said it opened order entry for its TMS320C553x ultra-low-power DSPs at $1.95 in 1,000-unit quantities, a price point...   (View)

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Advantages of the Innovative E-Paper Displays

Published:2011/9/1 3:08:00 Author:Li xiao na

GPEG is the leading display developer in UK. Four innovative, lightweight ‘electronic paper’ (e-Paper) displays have been developed by this firm recently. These new displays apply the imaging film to deliver ultra-low-power consumption panels in a variety of sizes from 1.44in to 3in. These electrophoretic displays are bistable, so ...   (View)

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Microprocessor with transactional memory

Published:2011/9/1 2:44:00 Author:Phyllis

Multicore chips researchers have studied for years about a new feature of commercial microprocessor. IBM has become the first company to ship such microprocessor with transactional memory. This new feature will applied in the BlueGene/Q processor used in the Sequoia supercomputer IBM is building at present and it will complete...   (View)

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The Electronics Economy in the Second-half of 2011

Published:2011/9/1 1:57:00 Author:Phyllis

The electronics economy in the second-half of 2011sees positive, but the prediction for global chip market growth in 2011 reduces from 9 percent to 4 percent. The reduction is adjusted according to the weakness of the semiconductor market in the second quarter of 2011, which has knocked what was set to be an average year of course. The...   (View)

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Pepperl+Fuchs Introduced Switch Amplifiers Feature Line Fault Detection

Published:2011/9/1 1:57:00 Author:Amy

Pepperl+Fuchs, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronic sensors and the undisputed world market leader for intrinsic safety and explosion protection technology, lately announced three new S...   (View)

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The New Surface-mount Power Metal Strip Resistor

Published:2011/9/1 1:02:00 Author:Li xiao na

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components. These components are used in virtually all types of electronic devices and equipment, in the industrial, computing, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military...   (View)

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