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April 24 2006
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Keyword . . . p. 10
Electronic Paper
What’s New . . . p. 28
- Seiko Epson and JSR Use Inkjet Technology to Form Si TFT
- Samsung Electronics Reveals a Fuel Cell for Mobile Devices
- Viiv Moves to Handle Content Redistribution
- Due to Furious Competition from FPGAs, Quick Turnaround ASICs Come to a Crossroad
- More or Less, the Problem of Multilayer Condenser Deterioration Is Scattered
amongst Manufactures
- The Linux for Mobile Phone Forces Take a First Step to Rout Symbian
- Apple Announces a Tool to Run Windows XP on Macs
Leading Trends
Batteries Will Be Thin and Flexible From Now
On. . . p.
51
Until recently, power density and energy density increases had been the only
advancements sought in electrical storage devices.
But now, a new area
of competition has emerged—thin, flexible batteries.
Already beginning
to be employed in postcards and cosmetics products, it looks as if they will
be put to use in products such as electronic paper and IC cards.
The New Rationalization in Energy Use Law Will Change Methods of Reducing
Power Consumption. . . p.
57
Manufacturers of air conditioning systems are reviewing their methods of reducing
power consumption as there is a possibility they will be unable, using current
design concepts, to meet targets stipulated under the Law Regarding the Rationalization
of Energy Use to be revised in Autumn 2006. Many devices are likely to
face similar situations.
Cover Story
Harvest the Market by Mass Manufacturing
Many Types of Products. . . p.
77
The global electronics market is rapidly expanding. The key to coming out
on top will be to maintain development frameworks that allow products targeting
a wide range of consumer preferences to be released to the market in quick succession,
while weathering increasingly severe price cuts.
Establishing such a framework,
however, involves enduring a certain element of pain and only companies who overcome
that pain will succeed in winning a share of the market.
Part 1 Drastic
Changes Are Inevitable . . . p. 80
Building up design assets for a vital, constant flow of new products
Part2 Software. . . p. 88
Focusing on software engineering to diversify product lines tenfold
Part 3 Hardware. . . p. 98
Realizing concurrent product launches worldwide with a farsighted design concepts
Part 4 Outside
Resources. . . p. 105
Making good use of one-to-one partnerships with development and manufacturing
contractors
Interview
Rambus’s CEO, Harold Hughes: “We Are Facing the Challenge
of Transforming Our Business Structure”. . . p.
111
Tech Tale
The 30 Year Struggle for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (Part
1): “That Began in 1977”. . . p.
114
The August 7, 1978 edition of Nikkei Electronics featured an article
entitled “High-density Magnetic Recording by Perpendicular Magnetization” in
which Tohoku University professor at the time, Shunichi Iwasaki, explained the
method of perpendicular recording.
Guest Paper
To What Degree—MSEE or MBA ?. . . p.
119
What postgraduate degrees should engineers acquire? In the US,
more people are interested in Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees,
which teach methods for managing businesses or projects, as opposed to Master
of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) degrees that pursue technical expertise.
A
number of circumstances underlie this, including: demand is rising for human
resources who have both sound technical and managerial skills; MBA graduates
earn higher salaries; the engineers, themselves, have doubts about their aptitude
for becoming specialists; and the students have dreams of establishing their
own businesses in the future.
Universities, too, are putting effort into
nurturing human resources who are strong in both technology and management. Not
only do universities teach the traditional MBA courses focusing on business administration,
but they also offer, for example, programs allowing students to obtain masters’ degrees
relating to engineering concurrently with masters’ degrees in management.
The
editor of a US journal reports on the latest attitudes of American engineers
towards masters’ education.
NETs Buyers’ Guide
Video Amplifier IC. . . p.
124
There are many applications for video amplifier integrated circuits (ICs), which
amplify video signals for output to external displays and monitors.
As
well as televisions, video recorders, set-top boxes, and other stationary equipment,
these ICs are being increasingly used in portable devices such as digital camcorders,
digital cameras and mobile phones. Most video amplifier ICs for portable
devices can operate on a +3V single power supply.
This article looks at
ICs with an internal low-pass filter that will bear an advantage as portable
devices become smaller. With a small mounting area, inclusive of external
components, many come in thin and compact packages.
NETs Seminar
Developing an Ever Changing Motor Control IC. . . p. 130
A motor control integrated circuit (IC) boasting both the flexibility of a microcontroller
and the performance of an application-specific IC (ASIC) has emerged for use
in inverter circuits of large home appliances. It is based on technology
for reconfiguring control processing circuits in the same way as you might rewrite
software.
This technology could possibly be applied even to the fields
of amps and power supplies.
The Expectations for Electronic Paper (Part 4): An Element in Intel’s
Platform Strategy. . . p. 138
This installment introduces Intel Corp.’s approach to electronic paper. Intel
is eyeing electronic paper as a technology that could reduce the power consumption
of portable devices.
The company stresses that markets in which paper is
used to provide information need to be gradually replaced if portable devices
featuring electronic paper are to capture a large market.
Dynamically Controlling Body Bias and Power Supply Voltage (Part 2): Process/Device
Technology to Increase the Efficiency of Basic Bias Control. . . p. 141
This series explains the low power consumption technology for LSI, based on voltage
control, which was developed by NEC Electronics Corp.
This technology consists
of three elements. The second installment of the series looks at process/device
technology such as transistor configuration and high-k materials.
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| News Ranking |
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| What's New: |
28 |
| Selected Shorts: |
41 |
| Leading Trends: |
51 |
| Cover Story: |
77 |
| Interview: |
111 |
| Tech Tale: |
114 |
| Guest Paper: |
119 |
| NETs: |
124 |
| Calendar: |
188 |
| From the Readers: |
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| From the Editors: |
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