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Scramble for new energy automotive batteries at the global automotive companies

Not long ago, Toyota’s China chief representative Etsuo Hattori and general manager of Toyota in China with a brigade troops Isogai Kuangzhi BYD quietly came to visit. “This is quite normal call, because I heard the last two years developing very fast BYD.” A Toyota insiders said the matter very easily.

However, the news from BYD, in the talks, both sides talked about the battery project. As the world of the few able and Sanyo, Panasonic and other companies competing battery company BYD has recently received particular attention.

“A lot of multinational and domestic enterprises have approached us about co-operation of vehicles, but also IT. Most recently affected by gasoline prices, car companies some more, and have a strong desire.” BYD sales company told reporters, general manager of the ice in summer.

But in summer the ice, said talks with Toyota BYD has not reached any agreement. BYD’s strategy is to meet its own electric vehicle batteries, the car can also be used to develop the battery supplier. As planned, BYD will launch later this year double-film hybrid, and declared that 2009 will realize the industrialization of electric vehicles.

Great Wall Securities auto industry analyst Lu Lei believes that the development of electric cars and hybrid vehicles in the automotive industry in the world of energy shortages and the context of lifestyle changes necessary to find a way out move. The future focus of competition is not just models, is the decisive leader of automotive batteries.

In fact, a new scramble for energy automotive batteries in the global automotive companies have been spread.

In particular, since the beginning of this year in June, international automobile companies jointly conducted a large-scale e-business alliance car battery development, more like a fun-eign competition.

First, a joint venture of Toyota and Panasonic EV Energy Company to increase new investment in the construction of two hybrid battery manufacturing plant, production will start in 2009 a small amount of lithium ion batteries and fully operational in 2010. Toyota Division also plans in late June the new “battery research department” dedicated to R & D in terms of performance beyond the epoch-making lithium-ion battery new battery.

Then, general and South Korea’s LG Chemical Company’s CompactPower companies and Continental Automotive Systems signed a contract two lithium batteries. Nissan and NEC, Bosch and Samsung, the world’s lithium production in the champions Sanyo lithium battery is hot, and Volkswagen, Ford and Honda are to cooperate.

See also long to see this trend is China’s “Spare Parts King” Lu Guanqiu Vientiane group, 9 years ago, he began to gamble on electric vehicles. Since 2002, Universal started the project of polymer lithium ion battery, and the acquisition of the Jiaxing Ai Taike company, introduced at the world’s advanced manufacturing process. Lu Guanqiu now just one paper Zhunsheng Zheng.

This, in summer ice that BYD has natural advantages in the battery, put back in the car battery has been developed to a high degree, and original iron battery technology. In the lithium battery, the charge and discharge times of times to reach the forefront of the industry’s 3000-5000 times Mileage up to 350 km.

“If oil prices rise, does not rule out the possibility that one day replace traditional film cameras such as digital cameras, the traditional internal combustion engine technology in overnight to be replaced by battery power, do not do, can be eliminated. So the new energy battery technologies in China battle only just started. “automotive analyst Jia Xinguang think.

Experts predict that from now to 2015, the global market for hybrid electric vehicle battery demand will triple, total value reached 2.3 billion in 2009, will for the first time Yingyong in HEV lithium-ion batteries may occupy half of the battery market. Japan, U.S., European auto makers are expected around 2010, will officially carry the passenger on a lithium ion battery.

Global chip market growth speed digital power

With notebook computers, servers and digital television (DTV) applications such as growing use of digital control of power semiconductors, the market will certainly be in the next three years, from the newborn stage, started to grow rapidly, to 2011 revenue will reach 904 million dollars.

DPM DCP dominated sales growth

Power Manager (DPM) and digital control of power (DCP) belong to the scope of digital power. iSuppli Corporation of the DPM is defined as “the use of digital information to manage the power system and the overall function of the power of the device within the system.” With DPM, digital signals can be used for communication between the power to monitor and manage power-up, timing control, load sharing and balancing, fault status, hot swap, maintenance problems and other features. DCP control power of digital technology is used within the power switch, which means the earliest possible implementation of the analog – digital converter, in order to supply all of the feedback and control functions are processed in the digital domain.

DPM currently dominates the digital power market in 2007, accounting for about 77.8% of sales of digital power. This is because the DPM semiconductor present for most DC / DC (DC / DC) applications is an effective intermediate solution. DPM vendors are working to define the bus and its product development more friendly design interface, which allows DPM to control digital power market.

iSuppli predicts that by 2011, global sales of DPM and the DCP will rise to 904 million U.S. dollars, almost 153 million U.S. dollars sales in 2007 to 6 times. DPM will remain in the digital power semiconductor sales accounted for the largest share of annual sales will reach 613 million U.S. dollars in 2011, while the projected 2008 annual sales is 174 million U.S. dollars, 2008 -2011-year compound annual growth rate is 52.2%. However, DCP will be faster sales growth in 2011 annual sales from 60 million U.S. dollars in 2008 rose to 291 million U.S. dollars, a 69.3% compound annual growth rate.

iSuppli Corporation that, DPM the next 3 years will be low-end notebook computers and other devices to achieve even greater success. Meanwhile, DCP will account for more high-end servers and other equipment market.

Rapid growth in the notebook field DPM

From 2008 to 2011, the fastest growing digital control of power semiconductor applications will be a laptop in the DC / DC converter. 2011, the field of global DPM / DCP revenue from the 12.1 million U.S. dollars in 2008 rose to 149.8 million U.S. dollars, up 131.3% compound annual growth rate. DPM will be the largest component of operating income, operating income in 2008 accounted for 73.7%, 66.3% by 2011.

Even in 2011, the market will still be room for further growth, will be only 10.4% of notebook computers in the DC / DC conversion using digital power semiconductors.

The demand for improved efficiency, digital control power semiconductor applications in the field of notebook computers has been rapidly expanding. With the new generation of more powerful microprocessors are used, the importance of battery run time increased, efficiency is more critical than ever. DPM in the notebook area is another reason for the rapid development of laptop sales is more popular than desktop PCs.

2011 high-end gaming PCs in the field of DCP / DPM revenue from the 1.2 million U.S. dollars in 2008 rose to 11.3 million U.S. dollars, up 110.1 percent compound annual growth rate also.

DCP will dominate the server space

Growth rate immediately after the notebook computer digital control power semiconductor market will be high-end server, 2011, the area DCP / DPM revenue from the 2.9 million U.S. dollars in 2008 rose to 28.4 million U.S. dollars, compound annual growth rate of 114.3 %.

Over the same period, digital control of power semiconductors in the mid-range server in the field of sales will only be able to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 43.6%, but 2011 will grow to 125 million U.S. dollars, will be becoming the second largest digital power applications, DCP will dominate this area.

In the management of data centers and server center power and cooling encountered major challenges, which is to promote the server using the principal factor in DCP. These facilities consume much energy, and heat generated may sometimes lead to equipment failure, malfunction, some of which come from energy conversion. DPM and the DCP can be used to improve the efficiency of energy conversion. In idle mode, the analog and digital solutions, power consumption difference is particularly marked.

DPM prospects for digital TV

Another fast-growing application areas will be digital TV. 2011, digital TV uses the DCP / DPM solutions revenue from the 11.4 million U.S. dollars in 2008 rose to 39.6 million U.S. dollars, compound annual growth rate of 104.4%.

With the TV screen become larger and larger, the energy required to drive the display was significantly increased, so the power efficiency has become more important. In anticipation of the price cuts DPM will be greater than DCP, so DPM penetration in the digital TV market faster than DCP. iSuppli predicts that by 2011 digital power in the DTV market share will reach 3.4%.

DCP and the DPM is now expected to be large volume, the device can create revenue, so that application of these devices products save a lot of power, and will provide related products providers drive significant revenue.

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U.S. cobalt prices fell again in Europe

June 23 electricity traders said, as a long-term impact of delivery, the U.S. and European markets Cobalt prices fell again. MW offer a variety of grade cobalt prices have been decreasing, and BHP Billiton and Norilsk’s cobalt offer also reduced.

But the reaction of consumers is not good, because summer break is approaching, wait and see on the market sentiment is growing. But this practice of selling long-term delivery were some people that are risky, and one view is that once the stock BHP Billiton tensions, bidding up, there are great risks to do so. Also that the Norilsk offer of behavior is to reduce damage to its own interests, as it sold OMG1100 million pounds per year of cobalt, or 1 U.S. dollar per pound, it means that it has withstood the loss of 11 million U.S. dollars. In this view, every summer the same thing happen, and ultimately with the manufacturers reduce inventory, pricing will be to reproduce the reaction.

The enthusiasm of consumers still good, still need to take that that to buy a decentralized procurement approach. Consumers have said, when it resumed in August after their normal production, there may be a normal purchase. He said although the trading volume in the press that he determined to buy, so you can get a lower price, but he can not guarantee that in August the number of their needs, so he does not agree with this strategy traders. He added that now traders will pull down prices, they can at the 4th quarter to enhance the higher cobalt prices, more profits.

AMD notebook 15.6-inch display information

The Medion Akoya P6512 features a hybrid graphics solution. The hard disk works with rapid 7200 revolutions per minute. The manufacturer offers three years warranty.

Aldi Sud currently offers with the Medion Akoya P6512 on an AMD-based notebook with a matte 15.6-inch display. It costs 599.

For processing power of AMD Athlon X2 Dual-P320 provides at 2.1 GHz. The device offers the low-power chipset graphics type Mobility Radeon HD 4250 HD 5470 discrete suite with 512 MB of memory. Between the two solutions can ever change manually as required.

On board also 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 320-gigabyte hard disk with 802.11b/g/n snappy 7200 RPM, Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi to.

The device offers three USB 2.0 ports, one of which is installed in combination with eSATA. External monitors can be connected via VGA or HDMI. Integrated is also a card reader for SD, SDHC, MMC, MS, MS Pro, and a 1.3-megapixel Webcam.

The 15.6-inch screen dissolves to 1366 by 768 pixels and, unlike most consumer notebooks a matte surface. Interfering reflections that should not be an issue.

The operating system is Windows 7 Home Premium for use. Even Office 2010 Starter, Corel Draw, and Essentials BullGuard Internet Security is installed.

Medion delivers the Akoya with a 5800-mAH battery. The notebook weighs over 2.3 kg and measures 38 by 25 by 3.2 to 3.7 centimeters. The manufacturer offers three years warranty, one year longer than many others.

Currently, for 599 to have South Aldi: Medion Akoya P6512 (Photo: Medion).

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iPhone 4 ab Freitag in weiteren 17 Landern erhaltlich

New iMacs and iLife updates are available before publication

The blogs include a shortage of supply at the current 27-inch models. In addition, a Cinema Display in 16:9 format of the question. iLife iDVD 11 will contain no more, but this one still secret component.

A shortage of supply in 27-inch iMacs fueling the rumor mill: You may run from the old model, because a new is about to start. So at least MacRumors speculates. Already last week, had spoken sources via new iMac models. The last update of the All-in-one computer was made in October 2009.

Other blogs add to the list other Apple products that are supposedly presented shortly. John Gruber of Daring Fireball will have heard of a new 27-inch Cinema display in 16:9 format. Presumably the model is based on the 27-inch iMac using SIPS panel with a resolution of 2560 times 1440 pixels. The question is whether Apple equips the monitor with a glossy screen surface or the device, such as the Dell UltraSharp, has a matte coating.

Apple Insider reports that the iLife software on 7 August will be presented. The unusually specific date goes back to a source of a French blog.

The software suite will bring a new version of iWeb, also improvements in the Face Faces and Places of localization, both of which belong to iPhoto. The connection to social networks is also improved according to the report. Currently, only export iPhoto to Facebook and Flickr.

iDVD is the French blog that no longer be contained. For this integrated Apple a new, even secretly in iLife 11th.

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Acer announces Ferrari-Edition-2.1 of the Android smartphone to Liquid E

The back of the ferrari red casing adorned with the logo of the car-cult brand. Even a headset and a cover in the Ferrari design are included. Technically there is no difference from 100 € cheaper standard model.

Acer has a special edition of its debut at the MWC 2010 in Barcelona featured smartphones, "Liquid E", which it has developed jointly with Ferrari. The Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition comes in the typical red of the sports car brand, which adorns the back of Ferrari logo and the rearing horse.

Acer Ferrari Special Edition Liquid E (Picture: Acer)

Users can choose from several background images with Formula 1 designs. The engine sound of a Ferrari can be set as a ringtone. The package also a headset and a cover in the Ferrari design are included.

Technically, the special edition of the Standard Model of the Liquid E. The operating system Android is 2.1 (code name Eclair) used 768 MHz Qualcomm processor 8250th as fast Snapdragon CPU

The capacitive 3.5-inch touch screen replaces 800 to 480 pixels in 16.7 million colors. The RAM is 256 MB in size, the internal memory of 512 MB can be expanded using MicroSD cards up to 32 GB.

The features of the smartphone include a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and geotagging, a 3.5-millimeter jack for headphones, wireless 802.11 b / g, Bluetooth 2.0, A-GPS and a mini-USB port. The more an acceleration, light and proximity sensor are also on board.

The device supports both GSM and EDGE and UMTS with HSPA, the transfer rates of up to 7.2 Mbps in the downlink and 2Mbps in the uplink allows. It also provides a direct connection to the social network Facebook and the photo service Flickr. Other applications and widgets can be downloaded from the Android Market.

The maximum talk time is five hours with the manufacturer. In the standby mode to the 1350 mAh battery strong hold up to 400 hours.

With Android 2.1 may be applied up to five Home screens on the Liquid E, on which can store programs, widgets and shortcuts. The pre-installed Chrome browser supports next HTML5 also video and geotagging and zooming a web site by double-clicking. The smartphone measures 11.5 times 6.4 times 1.3 cm and weighs 135 grams

The Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition comes in late July on the market. The suggested retail price is about 499 € to 100 € and above that of the Standard Edition.

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MSI brings Powerline adapter with Gigabit throughput

The models in the 1000HD can ePower allegedly transferred in parallel up to four HD streams. The power consumption is 5 watts in operation and under 1 watt in standby. A single adapter costs 50 €, a double 90 €.

MSI has a Powerline adapter with a theoretical transfer speed of 1 Gb / s and 200 meters range presented. The models in the series ePower 1000HD Black Series according to the manufacturer to enable the parallel streaming of up to four HDTV video network.

The devices are backwards compatible with all 200AV Powerline adapters that support data transfer via the power line to the industry-standard HomePlug AV 1.1. In operation, they consume less than 5 watts in standby, they are content with less than 1 watt.

Multiple adapters can be connected by means of a button. Thus, according to MSI improve the performance and stability of the network.

To protect against unauthorized access devices use the ePower a 128-bit AES encryption, which can be activated with one button. LED lights provide information about the connection status.

A single adapter costs 49 € including a two year warranty. Alternatives are also packages with two or three adapters for 89, respectively 129 Euro. The devices are compatible with both Windows and Linux and Mac OS X.

The actual transfer rate and distance depend not only on the network ports on the connected equipment also on the quality of the used power cable, building materials and the state of the sockets. Whether you hold the power line networks, which promise the adapter manufacturer, shows a practical test of ZDNet.

The ePower-1000HD adapter from MSI achieve a theoretical throughput of 1000 Mb / s (photo: MSI).

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Windows 7 Tablets come later this year

The Microsoft CEO calls Asus, Dell, Hanvon, Samsung, and Toshiba as a partner. The tablets will give him that, in many form factors and price ranges. Ballmer: "We really mean it seriously."

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer later this year a number of tablet computers with Windows 7 announced, designed to highlight Apple’s iPad competition. At the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington DC showed Windows vice president Tami Reller like a few models like Toshiba’s Libretto dual-display device and a tablet of the Chinese manufacturer Hanvon.

"Over the next few months, you will see a number of tablets that are running Windows 7. And I am sure you will find these computers impressive," said Ballmer. Among others, Dell, Asus, Samsung and Toshiba were working on Windows Tablet, which will be available in many sizes and price ranges, with or without keyboard. "We think it really seriously," affirmed the Microsoft CEO.

Hewlett-Packard (HP was missing) in Ballmer’s list of hardware partners. The name appeared only on a presentation slide. In April it was still called, HP plans to launch a Windows-called Slate Tablet on the market. After the company had taken over Palm, but it was only talk of a mobile device with Palm OS WebOS, to appear 2010th

In the Internet emerged, according to presentation slides for the upcoming Microsoft operating system Windows 8 also suitable for tablet computers. It should be run, among other things faster and reset without that personal data is lost.

Ballmer also spoke in Washington about the upcoming smartphone operating system Windows 7 Phone and how Microsoft will make amends to the ground on the competition. "We have a Windows Mobile missed virtually an entire generation. That made us almost cost one complete product cycle. But Windows Phone 7 has really got good reviews – even very good reviews. We will give you a number of Windows machines, which one with proudly carries home. "

On Toshiba Dual Display Tablet Libretto running Windows 7 (Picture: Toshiba laptopsbattery.us).

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Virginia Tech University developed car for the blind

2011 the prototype to be ready. The vehicle is equipped with "non-visual interfaces. The researchers received support from the American Blind.

Blindenautos prototype of a modified Ford Escape is (image: CC Kmf164/Wikipedia).

The Virginia Tech University and the American Blind working to enable blind people to drive. The prototype – a modified Ford Escape is – in January 2011 at Daytona International Speedway will be presented.

The vehicle uses a variety of sensors, so-called "non-visual interfaces" that transmit the driver information about its environment. "The challenge was not to develop an autonomous vehicle that drives around a blind man in the area," says Dennis Hong, director of the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech University. On the contrary: it must allow a blind person to take Fahrentscheidungen itself.

2007, the Virginia Tech University demonstrated in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition for unmanned aerial vehicles, for third place. My car was in a position to carry out traffic and obstacles. Organizers of the competition, the technology department of Defense, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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Samsung launches 13-inch notebook with optical drive

The model variant Q330 N11M-GE2 Nvidia’s Hybrid Graphics has Optimus on board. The CPU are Intel’s Core-i3 and i5 are used. Prices start at 949 euros.

Samsung has introduced the Q330 13.3-inch notebook with optical drive. It is now available in different versions. Prices start at 949 euros.

All models have a reflective 13.3-inch screen with 1366 by 768 pixels resolution, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 802.11b/g/n WLAN, DVD burner, webcam and Bluetooth 3.0. The Ethernet interface supports only 100 Mbit / s, most laptops have Gigabit Ethernet. The hard disk capacity of 250-640 GB.

For computing power allow for each configuration Intel Core i3-i5 or CPUs. The model variant Q330 N11M-GE2 Nvidia’s Hybrid Graphics has Optimus on board. To save power, it switches from the GeForce 310M when it is not needed. For then, the integrated graphics in the CPU unit.

The 6-cell battery to allow for periods of up to five hours. As operating system Windows 7 Home Premium installed.

The Q330 weighs 1.96 pounds and measures 32.9 times 22.9 times 3.2 centimeters. Samsung offers 24 months on-site pick up service.

The 13.3-inch Notebook Samsung Q330 is also available with hybrid graphics from Nvidia (Photo: Samsung).

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