Sony will become the built-in touch panel supplier for the next generation iPhone

May 25, 2012 11:23 pm

May 25 news, according to Taiwan’s “Times,” Sony is likely to become Apple’s next-generation iPhone suppliers. The next generation iPhone will use a built-in touch panel which is expected to be released in September or October this year.

According to reports, LG Display, Toshiba Mobile Display and Sharp before have been picked by Apple as its new iPhone built-in touch panel supplier. LG’s yield has been reached as high as 70-80%, TMD is also expected to scheduled to go into mass production. The news also said that Sharp progress has been slow to improve their yield, which also gave the Sony to enter the industry chain.

Meanwhile, Sony is also made a 50000 4 inches built-in touch panel HTC in the second half of 2011, and in this deal, Sony said it built-in touch panel production yield has been up to 70%. It is understood that Sony will start mass production of Apple’s next-generation iPhone from the end of May.

Forbes: China Mobile iPhone sales will reach 25 million next year

May 25, 2012 11:22 pm

May 26 news, “Forbes” magazine online edition published an article today said that China Mobile is negotiating cooperative to sell Apple iPhone. The industry believes that if China Mobile began operations in October this year, next-generation iPhone, then the 2013 iPhone sales will reach 25 million.

China Mobile said in the shareholders’ meeting on May 16, the company is the operator iPhone talks with Apple. However, China Mobile refused to disclose when the two sides to reach an agreement. This is consistent with Apple’s past practice, refused to disclose the specific launch date of the next generation of the iPhone.

Apple has reached an agreement of cooperation to sell the iPhone with China Unicom and China Telecom. China Mobile ranked first with the number of mobile users will help Apple to maintain high growth rates in the Chinese market. China Mobile currently has over 665 million mobile users, far more than the Verizon Wireless and AT & T and other U.S. carriers.

Prior to this, the TD-SCDMA technology is a major obstacle to hinder the iPhone to enter the Chinese mobile network. The market most of the smart phones are not compatible with this technology, including the iPhone. If you want to cooperate with China Mobile, Apple launched a special version of the iPhone for this network.

However, Qualcomm to launch the baseband chip to support a variety of mobile technology, Apple and China Mobile, the cooperation possible. Qualcomm’s products not only support the TD-SCDMA technology, but also support China Mobile TD-LTE network. So far, China Mobile by way of building a WiFi network on a large scale to compensate for the lack of 3G networks.

Despite the large number of iPhone users in China Mobile’s network, but industry insiders speculated that Apple’s market share in China, the data did not consider this part of the user. If this part of the user into account, then Apple’s market share will have increased dramatically.

Till to April 2011, China Mobile has 10 million iPhone users. In the ensuing four months, the new iPhone users reached 500 million. This means that each month, iPhone users have reached 1.25 million. Four months prior to October, China Mobile’s new iPhone users for the same level. This indicates that the rate of iPhone users to join mobile networks in China remained stable.

China Mobile iPhone right to operate the new iPhone is released in October of this year, sold 1.5 million a month subsidized iPhone. The last quarter of 2012, China Mobile will be able to multi-sold 5 million iPhones. 2013 iPhone sales likely to grow further to $ 25 million. China Mobile’s iPhone sales reach the level of AT & T, so that by 2018, China Mobile will be able to sell nearly 200 million iPhone.

Dell will launch 10.8-inch Windows 8 Tablet PC for enterprise users

May 25, 2012 5:37 am

May 25 news, Dell has promised to release Win8 Tablet PC with the launch of Windows 8. Now Dell’s Latitude 10 Win8 Tablet PC appearance and parameters exposed.

From the exposed pic, we can see that this machine is looks like the Dell Latitude ST. The tablet has two battery options, and less of a battery can be achieved 6-8 hours of battery life, battery is 10 – 12 hours of battery life. Among them, a good feature is the removable battery. In Dell’s earnings conference call, Michael Dell said on the tablet, mixing equipment and later launched Windows 8 Ultrabook will be released soon. Business-oriented Tablet PC such as Latitude may be too expensive for most consumers, Dell said: “touch screen product is more expensive and can control the retail price and the price range is not large.”

According to the exposed news, the following are some configuraiton of Dell Windows 8 Tablet:
Operating System: Windows 8 operating system, Intel processor
Screen: 10.8-inch, 1,366 x 768, capacitors, multi-touch, optional stylus
Processor: Intel dual-core “Clover Trail” Atom processor
Memory: 2GB
Storage: 128 GB solid state drive
Battery: Removable cell / cell, 30/60 WHr
Camera: Dual camera, front camera 2 million pixels, 8 million pixels rear camera
Weight: 1.57 lbs / 710 g
Thickness: 0.4 inches / 10.5 mm

Intel is developing learning computers that may be first launched in 2014

May 25, 2012 5:35 am

May 25 news, according to foreign media reports, Intel will develop simulating the human brain intelligence technology and develop a device that can understand user’s mind. Intel CTO Justin Rattner said: “Learning machine is a huge opportunity.”

Ratner said: “Although there is a word smart in the smartphone, the machine is a stupid device. My smart phone will not know more than I am. All of these devices are regard us as a single person to understand and adjust themselves to suit our requirements. ”

The study will be Intel’s computing the the intelligent Joint Institute and Haifa, Israel Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem expert, aimed at new applications, such as small, wearable computers, in order to improve the quality of life. For example, if a user car keys fell on the room, the device will remember him falling in the first week of the place, and in the second week to alert the user to remember the keys in front.

Ratner said that this can continue to record the user equipment of the things done, and will be available in 2014 or 2015. Intel Israel, president of Moody’s (Moody Eden), Eden said: “within five years of human consciousness will be recorded in the computer, the number of neurons in the human brain in 10 years, the number of transistors on a chip will need more.”

Rattner said Intel has adopted this new technology in the development of digital signage for Adidas. These signs can be judged that the customer is male or female, adults or children, and suitable for the customer’s shoes. He said that this is Intel to expand operations to the part of the field outside of the traditional semiconductor business.

Samsung outsourced laptop production business to Compel

May 24, 2012 3:30 am

May 23 news, according to Taiwan media reports, Samsung Electronics for the first time make its laptop production business outsourcing, it has signed first ODM orders Compal Electronics, and Compal Electronics will start delivery in June this year.

Industry analyst said that Compal Electronics got four laptop’s ODM order from Samsung this year, the cumulative shipments will increase from 200 million to 300 million units. Samsung has not yet decided the 2013 ODM orders, it is estimated will be more than this year.

Samsung has ranked 7 in the first quarter of 2012 in the global notebook PC market share, which is after Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Asus and Toshiba, but ahead of Apple, Sony and Fujitsu. Outsourcing can help Samsung reduce costs and improve price competitiveness in the global notebook PC market.

Samsung laptop computer sales were 10 million units and 13.1 million units in 2010 and 2011 and the laptop sales target of this year is 20 million units.

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