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May 22 2006
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Ecosystem . . . p. 10
Ecosystem
What’s New . . . p. 26
- Next Generation Game Consoles from SCE and Nintendo Collide at E3
- The Intense Competition to Develop Optical Disk Technologies Capable of
Storing Hundreds of Gigabytes
- The Reason Murata Manufacturing Bought a US Wireless Startup
- Hitachi’s Dynamic Reconfigurable Technology Aims to Reduce Circuit Surface
Area and Be Used in CE Devices
- Citizen Watch Develops a Small-Sized LCD Panel with Ultra Low Power Consumption
Leading Trends
“One Seg” Mobile Digital TV Broadcast
Service Starts and Finds Unusual Uses. . . p.
51
The “one seg” service for portable devices, so named because it uses “one
segment” of the frequency band allocated to digital terrestrial broadcasts,
has commenced, and already there is a shortage of compatible terminals.
Apparently,
the service is being actively used in the home and in a whole range of situations,
not just in the odd bit of spare time when the user is out and about.
With Virtualization Gathering the Spotlight, the Computer Will Eventually
Disappear. . . p.
59
Virtualization technology, used to hide differences in computer hardware from
running software, is suddenly attracting a lot of attention. It all began
with the arrival of the open-source virtualization software, Xen.
The number
of users has increased with the spread of web services and the technology looks
set to have an impact on grid computing.
Cover Story
Materials Manufacturers Will Become Even
More Powerful. . . p.
75
Relationships between appliance and parts makers are transforming as markets
for widely diverse parts are becoming increasingly dominated by a small number
of manufacturers.
This trend is going to intensify further still. Appliance
manufacturers that have managed to build strong relations with parts manufacturers
will be able to gain the edge on rivals in producing low-cost, high-performance
devices.
Part 1 The Core Issue. . . p. 80
Oligopolies to stay strong through technology and barriers to new investment
Part 2 Current
Status of the Oligopolies. . . p. 88
Domination of market for LCD panel materials by a few to quicken panel enlargements
and price cuts
Interview
Kyushu University's Graduate School of Information Science and
Electrical Engineering Professor, Kiyoshi Tokou: “Taste Sensors Will Make
People Happy”. . . p.
97
Tech Tale
The 30 Year Struggle for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (Part
3): The Senior Members Can’t Give In. . . p.
100
An article entitled, “Hard Disk Drives Approaching Recording Density Limits” appeared
in the July 1, 1996 edition of Nikkei Electronics.
The article
stated that longitudinal recording would reach its limit at around 10Gbits/in2
and stressed that perpendicular recording would emerge as a promising technology
to help overcome that boundary.
Guest Paper
Developing an RF Circuit Capable of Receiving All Services in the
800MHz to 5GHz Range on One Chip. . . p.
105
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and WiLinx Corp,
a venture capital firm located in Los Angeles, California, have developed an
architecture that enables the reception of wireless services over a wide range
of frequencies, from 800MHz to 5GHz, with just one RF circuit. They have
already manufactured a prototype chip with those configurations.
This holds
hope for significant reductions in size of RF circuits for software radio devices
that can receive multiple wireless services. Applied to portable devices,
you would be able to create mobile phones on which you can switch freely between
multiple wireless services. So-called “reconfigurable RF circuits,” for
processing, on a single platform, wireless circuits for mobile terminals that
can be used in various regions around the world, could be realized.
The
engineers who pursued the development explain their development concepts and
details of the architecture.
NETs Buyers’ Guide
“One Seg” Mobile Digital TV Broadcast Tuners. . . p.
116
The “one seg” service, which broadcasts television programs and the
like to portable devices using “one segment” of the frequency band
allocated to digital terrestrial television broadcasting, has been launched. The
lineup of one seg compatible devices is expanding beyond mobile phones to include
notebook computers, portable DVD players and game consoles.
The device
that is key to making display-equipped mobile equipment one seg compatible is
the tuner module. Looking exclusively at one seg reception, there is already
a selection of first generation products that seek to cut power consumption by
using a narrow frequency band. Three factors need to be considered when
making a selection—dimensions, power consumption and receiver sensitivity.
Tuner manufacturers might, for example, put on offer a tuner with a height of
1.4mm based on requirements from mobile phone manufacturers.
For power consumption
and receiver sensitivity, there is a trade-off relationship between the two,
and therefore tuner manufacturers are likely to come up with new products that
allow for various characteristics.
NETs Seminar
Making Organic Electronics by Printing (Part 2): Making
Elements Cheaply and Easily Using Screen Printing. . . p.
121
Material and printing-related elemental technologies that have been developed
for printed displays can be applied in the development of a variety of organic
electronic devices. In this installment, we receive a full explanation
of these devices, right through from development guidelines to performance results.
What Parts Are Actually 90nm in “90nm LSIs” ? . . . p.
129
We often hear the words “90nm rules” and “90nm generation” used
in announcements by semiconductor manufacturers. What parts are they actually
referring to when they say “90nm”?
We receive an explanation
from Yoshimi Asada of Fujitsu Ltd., who is an expert working on the design
task force of the Semiconductor Technology Roadmap Committee of Japan (STRJ),
within the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association
(JEITA).
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