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So, we already assume Amazon’s thinking touch for the Kindle, what with that recent Touchco acquisition and word of similar behind-the-screen touch tech being on PVI’s roadmap. PVI owns E Ink, and is naturally bullish about its upcoming products, but what about E Ink in the new Kindle? If you’re into reading the tea leaves of job postings, Amazon might be telegraphing its intentions. It’s looking for a “Hardware Display Manager” who, among many other things, is supposed to have “Significant exposure to high volume manufacturing environments; you will know the LCD business and key players in the market.” That might have you thinking the next Kindle will go LCD, but the requirements also mention a “deep knowledge of current display technology and potential future technologies,” and nothing about the role seems exactly prescriptive of an LCD expertise — more of a general focus on displays and product design, whatever tech might come. Pixel Qi or Mirasol, anybody? Amazon’s also looking for all sorts of software expertise, including a “Software Design Engineer” who will be responsible for radio stacks “including but not limited to” 3G and WiFi. Again, these are requirements (among many) for a role, not necessarily implications of a Kindle 3 spec sheet, but there’s one thing clear: Amazon’s gearing up for something.
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Sanyo Denki Sanups PV Monitor eliminates the need of having monitoring personnel at photovoltaic power system installation sites such as mega solar power generation stations. It can display the quantity of power generated and a power trend graph in real-time. When trouble occurs with the PV inverter an e-mail is automatically sent. Conversely, when a request mail is sent by the monitoring personnel, the sending personnel receives a response regarding power conditions and conditioner information.
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Top executives from Samsung and LG have flocked to local theatres to watch Avatar in an effort to evaluate the film’s 3D technology and prepare for competition in the burgeoning 3D TV market. LG Group Chairman Koo Bon-moo, along with high ranking executives from the group’s affiliates, attended a screening in downtown Seoul last week. Yoon Boo-keun, head of Samsung’s TV division, also attended a screening of the film recently, saying afterwards that the 3D TV market is expected to grow faster than previously thought. Samsung has so far claimed the largest share of world’s overall TV market at over 20 percent in 2009, followed by LG with 10 percent. Samsung ranked top in the Korean market with an over 50 percent market share while LG took up 46 percent.
Samsung and LG, both of which dominate the global TV market, have already begun to compete in order to gain the upper hand in the 3D TV market. Both Samsung and LG plan to launch an aggressive marketing campaign for their 3D TV models sooner or later. Avatar, which tells the story, through 3D technology, of a disabled U.S. marine who infiltrates a tribe of giant blue aliens inhabiting a faraway planet, became the first theatrical release in South Korea to reach 112.3 billion won (US$100 million) in ticket sales
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Toshiba has developed a breakthrough technology that achieves low voltage operation of System LSI, opening the way to reduced power consumption in digital products. The technology secures successful operation of static random access memories (SRAM) at low voltage with an improved circuit design that optimizes voltage control of the bit line and word line. The new technology overcomes the high failure rate that has been the main challenge in achieving practical, low voltage SRAM, and reduces memory cell failure rate by four orders of magnitude at 0.7V. The circuit design can be applied to the memory compiler, software that automatically configures SRAM, contributing to shorter design lead times and bringing an effective solution to the LSI development process.
Toshiba will unveil the new technology on the fourth day of the 2010 International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), one of the semiconductor industry’s leading international conferences, which is being held in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., from February 7 to February 11.
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Sony today announced the development of millimeter-wave wireless intra-connection technology that realizes high speed wireless data transfer inside electronic products such as television sets. By replacing physical circuitry in electronics products with high speed wireless connections, this new data transfer technology reduces the number of wired connections and minimizes IC use, to simplify the IC package and printed circuit board. Furthermore, because the data transfer occurs without contact, this enhances the reliability of movable and detachable parts within the product.This new wireless intra-connection system is based on millimeter-wave wireless data transfer technology.
This technology, used together with miniature antennas approximately 1mm in length, enable transmission speeds of 11Gbps over a distance of 14mm, with power consumption of 70mW. It is possible for this distance to be extended to around 50mm using high directivity antennas. Sony will proceed with efforts to adopt this technology in a range of electronics products, while continuing its development to meet ever-increasing data-rate requirements.Sony will present this technology at ISSCC 2010 , to be held in San Francisco, California, US, from February 7th 2010.
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Korean researchers have for the first time extracted hematopoietic stem cells that could help treat leukemia from fatty tissue. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea, the discovery was made by a research team led by Koh Gou-young, a biologist at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Leukemia affects hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow. Until now, it has been treated by bone marrow transplant from donors. The Korean success will open up possibility of extracting hematopoietic stem cells from a patient’s own fatty tissue.
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