the design of 14 nm chip has been completed

December 14, 2011 2:49 am

Zhongguancun online news: Intel Nordic region, general manager Pat visions of brigham (Pat Bliemer) in an interview with the overseas media said, “I can only say (14 nano) chip has entered the lab stage, can’t disclose more information. Our engineers do find a testing and production and nano chip products method.”

The comments shows, and process the chip of the nano, and complete design work, currently in beta.

“And to have test the 22 nm Ivy Bridge structure, process processor will soon in the first quarter of next year. The chip will continue to keep production with AMD, ARM lead.” The man he calls jerry said.

Ivy Bridge processor design USES a new structure, the use of the “Tri-gate” 3 D transistor technology. The more closely design will strengthen their thermal design of the processor power index. Intel plans to continue this technology application to 14 nanometer process technology of the chip.

LG has occupied the dominant position in tablet screen market

December 13, 2011 1:45 am

What do disparate tablet devices like the Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle Fire, and Barnes & Noble Nook all have in common? They depend on South Korea’s LG Display as the main supplier of their display panels—a coveted distinction that has made the company the top supplier of media tablet screens, according to an IHS iSuppli Small & Medium Displays Market Tracker report from information and analysis provider IHS.

Samsung Mobile Display, which also supplies Apple with displays as well, follows with 35 percent, and Chimei Innolux, another Apple supplier, with 9 percent. All others shipped just 5 percent of all tablet panels in the second quarter of this year.

LG Display, branch of the Korean manufacturer dedicated to screens, is the main supplier of the screen of the iPad from Apple, Kindle Fire of Amazon and other Nook from Barnes & Noble, according IHS iSuppli. If this is the case, it is primarily the quality of the touch screens IPS (reactivity, open angles, power consumption) that manufactures LG in diagonals of 7″ to 10″. So that in the second quarter of year, the market share of LG screens on tablets rose to 51% according to iSuppli.

“Apple, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble have very different offerings in the media tablet market – but they all depend on LG Display because of its advanced in-plane switching (IPS) display technology,” said Vinita Jakhanwal, senior manager of small and medium displays at IHS. “LG Display’s amorphous silicon LCD panels utilizing IPS technology offer faster response speeds, wide viewing angles up to 179 degrees, and no after image—all while consuming 30 percent less power than conventional LCDs.”

IHS forecasts tablet shipments to climb by 273 percent this year compared to 2010. However, the firm said that display suppliers will have to keep pace with the growing resolution in tablet displays. While 9.x-inch displays currently have a typical pixel density of 132 ppi (1024×768) and 7-inch tablets are at 170 ppi (1024×600), the next 9.x generation and Apple’s iPad retina display may exceed 300 ppi, IHS said. “Panel suppliers that cannot meet these exacting display standards or efficiently produce viable displays at such sizes and resolutions will find it very hard to compete in the market,” IHS said.

LG Display is the leader by a wide margin of the tablet display market, with 51 percent market share in the second quarter. The company is well ahead of fellow South Korean rival Samsung Mobile Display—which also supplies panels for the Apple iPad as well for its own Sam-sung Galaxy Tab—at a distant second with 35 percent share, half that of LG. Third-place Chimei Innolux Corp. of Taiwan, another Apple supplier that likewise provides for the Chinese white-box market, controls a 9 per­cent share, as shown in Figure 1. The remain­ing 5 percent of the tablet display market is split among several smaller firms.

From the time the iPad was introduced last year by Apple, tablet devices have become one of the main driving forces for growth in the small- and medium-sized display market. Tablet shipments are expected to surge an as­tounding 462 percent this year compared to 2010. And at a time when sales of many con%C

Laptop vendors look forward to an increase in gross margin next year

December 13, 2011 1:38 am

The notebook computer manufacturers expect their supply chain in the 2012 gross profit margin will ascend.

These manufacturers think, laptop brands in 2012, will focus on ultrabook products, than the traditional pen electric products

, Ultrabok have better profitability.

A line pen 3 quarter this year electric foundry business comprehensive less than 4% gross margin, occupies only 3.2%, RenBao 3.31%, material and 3.9%, inventec 3.8%. With electronics manufacturing services (EMS) supplier gradually exit notebook manufacturing, notebook PC market price competition has stopped, manufacturer’s gross profit margin will also get recovery next year.

Now, most of the pen brand manufacturers have to give up the Internet this market, now only acer and asus is still in the market for Internet access. But, acer and asus has from Europe and the United States the Internet market retreat, led China, India, Indonesia and other emerging markets.

As for the tablet computer, acer, asus and manufacturers although have introduced four core tablet computer, support the latest Andr oid system. But, in the apple and the amazon for the tablet market in the process, the factories have been marginalized, so they focus again to return to pen electricity market.

Acer and asus are preparing in 2012 simplified its pen electric product line. In 2012 two quarter hard disk tight supply slowed, and Intel company came out with Ivy Bridge processor, Microsoft Windows 8 release after electric industry is expected to pen to regain stability returns.

However, due to the European debt crisis continued fermentation, at present PC brand manufacturers order quantity still tend to be conservative, because they expected to American and European vacation at the end of the year, China’s New Year holiday sales situation may not strong as expected.

Asus will push a Ultrabook with the rotatable accordion screen

December 12, 2011 3:53 am

According to Taiwan “electronic times” report, industry sources said, according to Ultrabook promotion plan of Intel, asus will in 2012 Computex Taipei DianNaoZhan on Intel can rotate out joint screen, folded Ultrabook, products will be collocation Windows 8 operating system.

Although lenovo had previously released a similar characteristics of the ThinkPad X series products, but this one character used in Ultrabook or first, the product is expected to and Windows 8 synchronization in September 2012 formally released.

Source said, with Ivy Bridge in April 2012 on the formal listed, with the new characteristics of the Ultrabook will attract consumer eye, make the similar product sales significant growth.

Intel also in the downstream partners for the future Ultrabook model design scheme, and the screen can rotate/folding plus touch screen can not only make Ultrabook as traditional USES the same laptop, and as flat as computer operation.

Intel has succeeded in pilot run the 14nm test chips

December 12, 2011 3:52 am

Intel company in recently in an interview, again confirmed will continue to implement the famous pendulum (Tick, Tock) strategy, and the company will be according to the original plan launched in 2014 and nm process. But according to introduction, Intel company has in its lab work 14 nm process test chip.

In an interview with website Nordic Hardware, the company confirmed the company has Intel won several key technology of 14 nm process, and has in its lab can successfully accomplish the trial operation. But Intel company and not disclose the details of the new technology, and the process to wait until 2 years before the official use. Intel company hinted that 14 nm process will be in the transistor design to bring more innovation.

Intel Scandinavian competent business Pat Bliemer said: “we need to keep moving forward, you can believe in our experiment, we actually have successfully run after the 22 nm chip products, we have to keep on going. I can’t reveal more relevant content, our engineers have found the production and the product road. Nm”

Should say this once again presents the Intel company in the semiconductor industry the confidence of the sustained, rapid and innovation, and this is for Intel company continue to launch a new generation of processor offers guarantee. And on the other hand, Intel company’s old rival AMD is will continue to face the pressure of competition. When Intel company first released in 2012 and 22 nm process, AMD will continue to use the 32 nm process relative obsolete. And by 2014, the gap between the two companies will be more apparent, AMD will begin using 20 nm process, and Intel company’s 14 nm process has already done.

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