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Intel: to launch a full range of chips for the global market

By admin, February 28, 2012 4:33 am

February 28 news, Intel CEO Paul Otellini launched a new Intel layout in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) that Intel will cooperate with number of manufacturers in Europe, India and China to launch new smart phone;and it will also released a full range of mobile chips for the global high and low-end market.

Otellini announced that Intel will launch new smartphones with Orange, India Lava and China’s ZTE. Among them,Intel will co-operate with Orange to launch new smart phones which based on Intel Atom Z2460 chip and it will be listed later this summer in Britain and France; the smartphone XOLO X900 which cooperate with Lava will be introduced early in the second quarter this year.

Otellini also announced the Intel mobile chip R & D progress: Z2460 processor which released in January of this year’s will support up to 2GHz frequency; the performance of Atom Z2580 processor is twice that of the previously announced Z2460 chip, the Engineering samples will be released in second half of this year and in the end product will be listed in the first half of next year.

In addition, Intel also introduced for emerging markets, the Z2000 has a cost-effective platform includes a 1.0GHz Atom CPU, support for 2G/3G dual-SIM card. Intel plans to launch this year Z2000 sample, the corresponding end product launch early next year.

Otellini also said that in addition to the current 32-nanometer chip products, the Intel 2013 to ship 22 nm chips, and the 14-nanometer chip technology being developed. In the field of PC chips, Intel occupies an absolutely dominant position, but always slow progress in the mobile platform, smart phones and tablet PCs are widely used by Qualcomm and Texas Instruments chip based on Arm architecture. Intel X86 architecture, energy issues, was once considered unsuitable for mobile devices.

The market research firm Canalys, the latest data show that last year the global smart phone sales of 480 million, for the first time more than 415 million PC sales. This data marks the full arrival of the mobile Internet era, force late Intel is stepping up its layout, trying to narrow the gap with the Arm architecture chip competitors.

In January of this year, Otellini in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) released the first product of Intel in the field of smart phones: hand in the X86-based smart phones X800 Lenovo launched. The phone is based on the Intel Atom Z2460 processor platform, formerly code-named Medfield.

The Z2460 is the Intel chip for smart phones and tablet PCs designed specifically to the successful resolution of the energy consumption of the X86 architecture mobile platforms. In addition, Intel has reached a strategic partnership with Motorola Mobile smartphone equipped with the Intel chip in the second half of this year.

Apple’s market capitalization is expected to break $3 trillion in 2022

By admin, February 26, 2012 11:42 pm

February 27 news, according to India’s Economic Times reported, Apple will once again exceed Mobile to become the world’s largest listed companies. Apple’s stock price has created a new high of $ 526.29 per share, making it a market capitalization reached to $468 billion which is much more than Google and Microsoft’ the aggregate value.

“Economic Times” is expected that in the next decade, if Apple’s stock price increases of 20% per year, so that by 2022 its market capitalization will break the $3 trillion. Just in nine years, Apple grew rapidly. In 2003, Apple’s market capitalization is only $ 6.0 billion. Till to December 31 last year, its quarter net profit amounted to $ 13 billion.

In addition, the Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said Apple is holding cash up to $ 97.6 billion, this figure had more than the operational needs of the entire company, they are actively discussed how to use this huge amount cash.

Tablet PCs and smart phones to promote the toy industry to use touch screen

By admin, February 26, 2012 11:40 pm

February 27 news, according to foreign media reports, with the popular of tablet PCs and smart phones in the world, the toy industry seize the opportunity to launch a new toy which used the touch screen devices.

American International Toy Fair held in New York last week, Hasbro has exhibited in the “The Game of Life” classic board games series based on the development called “The Game of Life, zAPPed “the new game. The new version allows players to toggle the dial in the game is truly on the iPad. At the same time, Mattel has launched a series of toys called Apptivity, kids can use with the game action on special manipulation devices Barbie and Hot Wheels” car manipulation Tablet PC. Tim Karpin, vice president of Mattel, said that this was a brand new toy category.

The competition of other forms of entertainment has led to traditional toys sales decline, but there are some experts believe that the more fundamental problem is the toy industry itself: toy company ack of innovation, only duplicate the production stereotyped dolls, cars, or toy pistol. Lego, senior vice president Soren • Top • Laoer Sen, the current model has been difficult to sustain, so only the more innovative to make the toys sell out.

Although the traditional toys price competition has been fierce, but toy manufacturers have found more opportunities for profit from a novel toy. Spin Master Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, a minority shareholder holding Toy Company, the company’s most famous toy “Bakugan Battle Brawlers” series. The company in the past holiday quarters its AppfinityAppBlaster long section of the plastic gun to create a number of mix and match game to make AppBlaster as the sight manipulation shooting game with the iPhone. The next step will launch the product AppDrive a steering wheel, kids can use it to control the Apple Products or the use of Google Android operating system for mobile phones and tablet PCs game. These new toys are priced at about $ 20.

Spin Master spokesman Harold Qi Zike, Harold Chizick retailers unsure about these new products to be classified as consumer electronics or entity toys, but now they made available for special areas to large scale display. To promote children through the dial or other device, rather than the direct use of the benefits of touch-screen control toys, he explained, “who do not want to leave the dirty fingerprints on the touch screen.”

Samsung will unveil education services in Galaxy Tab

By admin, February 24, 2012 11:40 pm

February 25 news, after Apple’s iTunes U and iBooks education platform,Samsung will also launch similar education service, named for Learning Hub in their Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9.

Learning Hub with some 6000 textbook, as well as from the home education service provider of 30 video content. So far, samsung electronics provides the service only some of the screenshots. Samsung electronics will be in the upcoming Barcelona mobile world congress (MWC) announced the launch of the service on time and charge the price.

Through the provides automatic scoring system, Learning Hub is committed to providing interactive Learning experience, and to encourage users to self-study. In addition, this service will also provide notes correct and document tagging etc. Function. It is not clear whether this function will be similar to the Galaxy Note the S smart phone-Pen function.

Through to the university and high school students provide study content, apple has set up a file in the education market has made great progress. Some schools in order to obtain the apple iTunes U and other functions and buy iPad, which promote the sales of the iPad. IPad is currently in students of all ages are very popular, is used to make notes and produce all kinds of content, including word processing, music creation, visual design and photos video editing, etc.

Samsung’s release of Learning Hub shows that the company hopes to promote education market Galaxy Tab sales, and expand the tablet computer user groups.

Dell has acquired the backup and recovery software vendors AppAssure

By admin, February 24, 2012 11:39 pm

February 25 news, according to foreign media reports, Dell announced that, the company has bought the backup and restore software company:AppAssure, but it did not disclose the detailed of terms of the deal.

This is the first item department purchase since Dell’s software build. Dell software’s former CA chief executive officer is John Swainson. Dell is actively transit its business to higher profit margin business, such as software and services, etc.

AppAssure mainly provide application backup software for the cloud, virtualization and physical infrastructure. Dell said, AppAssure comply with the company’s overall storage strategy.

According to the company, AppAssure in 2011 in revenue growth of 194%. AppAssure support physical server and VMWare, Hyper-V and XenServer virtualization server. Dell added that the company will keep AppAssure’s 230 employees and to continue to invest in the company.

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