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June 19 2006
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Keyword . . . p. 10
white light emitting diode
What’s New . . . p. 22
- Matsushita and Sony Establish a Standard for Cameras to Record HDTV Using
H.264
- Japanese SC Fabs Are Like a Candle in the Wind
- The Regulation Value of the Transmission Speed for High Speed Powerline Communication
Is Reduced by Half
- The Momentum of Taiwanese Manufacturers to Conquer Digital Consumer Electronics
as Seen at COMPUTEX
- JPCA Show 2006: Mass Production of PCBs with Internal Components Starts
- NTT Develops an Ultra-Violet LEC Using Aluminum Nitride with an Extremely
Short Wavelength of 210nm
- A Test to Evaluate and Certify the Capability of Software Engineers to Start
this Fall in Japan
Leading Trends
Not Just Software, Hardware Development Also
Moves to India. . . p.
43
Renowned for their involvement in offshore development of software, Indian companies
are now being increasingly employed as contractors for hardware design.
In
an environment where there is an abundance of engineers and labor expenses are
low, companies are busy establishing systems that will allow them to accept jobs
in all areas, from device development to LSI design.
With the Worldwide Market Rapidly Changing, the Car Navigation Market Stands
at a Crossroads. . . p. 47
Car navigation systems manufacturers in Japan used to excel in the business for
aftermarket navigation systems, but the market is changing. Bit by bit
they are losing market share to OEM navigation systems.
Meanwhile, on the
global stage, demand for basic navigation systems, which Japanese makers barely
produce, is spreading quickly. Anxious manufacturers are preparing countermeasures.
SID: The Gathering of the Latest Display Technology. . . p. 53
The Society for Information Display’s symposium, seminar, and exhibition,
SID 2006, was held in San Francisco, California from June 4, 2006.
The
world’s largest, 100-inch, liquid crystal display panel was the subject
of a lot of attention, as were color electronic paper and projectors using LEDs
and lasers as a light source.
Cover Story
Who Will Change Television?. . . p.
77
Competition is underway to see who is going to take the initiative in the creation
of a new broadband-based video medium. A host of corporations with no previous
television links, such as Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Apple Computer, Inc.,
are launching their own bids. Japanese home appliance manufacturers, on
the other hand, cannot even find a way to enter the ring as televisions currently
don’t have sockets for distribution of Internet video content.
The “rebirth
of television” will be the ultimate accomplishment to rise out of the amalgamation
of communications and broadcasting. Exactly who is going to take command?
Part 1 Taking
on the World with Video Distribution Betting Such an Endeavor—Moving from
Expanding Market Share to Expanding the Market Itself. . . p.
80
Simple questions you wouldn’t dare to ask now. . .p.
90
The content distribution industry in a nutshell. . .p.
92
Part 2 The Certainties
and Uncertainties of Video Distribution; Common Knowledge Is about to Be Made. . . p. 95
Interview
Sumita Optical Glass’s Shinobu Nagahama: “Because We
Can Strive for a World’s First, I’m Happy”. . . p.107
Sumita Optical Glass, Inc. has successively turned out lens materials and fiber
optics that electronics and precision equipment circles had once thought impossible. Annual
sales are ¥8 billion.
This small-to-medium sized company has less money
and human resources available for allocation to new product development than
large corporations, and yet the company has managed to give birth to numerous
world-firsts.
We conducted an interview to find out how this was possible. Shinobu
Nagahama, who has presided over the company’s research and development
for nearly 20 years, says a corporate culture fostering total respect for the
interests and intentions of individual engineers has given rise to innovative
new products.
Tech Tale
The 30 Year Struggle for Vertical Magnetic Recording (Part
5): “OK, Go Ahead. It’s a Festival”. . . p.
110
The September 23, 2002 edition of Nikkei Electronics featured an article
entitled, “HDD 150Gbit barrier the end of the road for longitudinal recording—perpendicular
recording also at a standstill” (left photo).
It commented that 150Gbits/in2
was the surface recording density limit for the longitudinal recording method
and that there seemed to be little prospect for perpendicular recording being
able to break through that barrier.
Guest Paper
Using a Laser Light Source Will Change the Concept of Rear Projection
Technology. . . p. 115
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has developed a rear projection system that
uses a red, green and blue semiconductor laser as the light source.
This
is the first time in the industry that a prototype of a rear projection system
for household televisions with a laser light source has been revealed. Its
main features are an expanded color gamut and a thinner profile.
The color
gamut is approximately 135% larger than the NTSC standard and the depth dimension
of earlier models has been roughly halved to 26cm. On top of that, the
expanded color gamut enables compliance with the xvYCC international standard
prescribing extended color space for next-generation video.
Light-emitting
diodes (LEDs) are increasingly being used as a light source in order to advance
projection technology, and lasers are seen as a further step toward the next
generation. Mitsubishi Electric explains the characteristics of the laser
light source and technologies that helped realize it.
NETs Buyers’ Guide
H.264 Encoder LSIs. . . p.
124
“Incorporating all valid video compression methods”; “nothing
will top it for some time”—the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (“H.264”)
video encoding format gets its name, “mammoth codec,” from its high
compression ratio.
LSIs able to encode high definition television (HDTV)
video using this method (H.264 encoder LSIs) should burst on to the market from
the end of 2006. Driving the market will be camcorders capable of shooting
HDTV video (related article on pp.22-23).
NETs Seminar
The Past and Future of Imaging Elements (1st Half): The
30 Year Path to High Resolution. . . p.
129
Over two installments, we will explain the history of image sensors and upcoming
developments based on what Takao Kuroda spoke about at the Image Sensor 2006
seminar hosted by Nikkei Electronics on April 12, 2006.
Kuroda
has experience working for an image sensor manufacturer in Japan on the development
of charge-coupled devices (CCDs) and complementary metal oxide semiconductor
(CMOS) technology sensors.
When Crystal Oscillators Won’t Work (Part 1): Be Careful of the Proper
Value of the “Excitation Level”. . . p. 135
If integrated circuits (ICs) are the “staple of industry,” then crystal
oscillators are the “essence.” First used in quartz watches,
they are now an indispensable component in almost all electronic devices.
Recently,
however, crystal oscillator malfunctions have been on the rise. We explain
the causes and offer solutions.
The Latest on Quantum Encryption (Part 2): The Structure of “BB84,” the
World’s First Quantum Code . . . p.
140
The second installment of our explanation of the latest developments in quantum
cryptography looks at the safety of the approach, referring to the example of
world’s first quantum cryptographic protocol, BB84.
Safety in quantum
cryptography is maintained in a different way to conventional cryptographic methods.
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| Interview: |
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| Tech Tale: |
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