Archive for June 26th, 2009
Nvidia: For Smartbooks, Windows CE Beats Android
Despite the hype surrounding Google Inc.’s Android operating system, Nvidia Inc. sees more immediate promise in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows CE for ARM-based netbooks.
Mike Rayfield, general manager for Nvidia’s mobile business unit, said Nvidia preferred Microsoft’s Windows CE over Android because of CE’s maturity. He said Android currently has a rough user interface.
Rayfield also plugged Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang’s prediction yesterday that Tegra, Nvidia’s System-on-Chip (SoC) for ARM hardware, could account for half of Nvidia’s revenue within a few years, while also reaping higher profit margins than Nvidia’s current products.
Rayfield was coy, however, regarding reports that say Microsoft’s upcoming Zune HD media player will use Tegra.
“Microsoft hasn’t confirmed that … so until they comment, I can’t,” he said.
For smartbooks, Nvidia is working with Microsoft to optimize Windows CE when it runs on Tegra. The counterpart to Nvidia’s Ion platform for Intel Atom-based netbooks, Tegra bundles an ARM CPU (the 750 MHz ARM 11) with specialized chips designed by Nvidia for graphics, HD video encoding and decoding, stereo sound and more.
That will allow Windows CE devices to offload much of the heavy multimedia work onto Tegra, resulting in better performance, 1080p video, and low power usage. Nvidia claims that Tegra smartbooks should allow users to listen to music for 25 days or watch HD video for 10 hours, versus 5 hours and 3 hours, respectively, for an Intel Atom netbook.
Nvidia chose to work with Windows CE first, said Rayfield, because it “is a rock-solid operating system that has been shipped billions of times.”
Windows CE also has a “low memory footprint and a good collection of apps,” Rayfield said.
He said Nvidia is also improving Tegra for use on Windows Mobile, a close variant of Windows CE, for ARM-based smartphones.
Nvidia is working with Google to accelerate Android, which is based on Linux, when running on Tegra hardware. But it will be about a year before that delivers for smartbooks, due to existing limitations in Android, he said.
For instance, Android screen icons that fit on smartphone screens (usually 4-inches and under) are oversized on a smartbook’s 8- or 9-inch screen, he said.
Also, all video and graphics rendering in Android is done today by the operating system’s Java code, a technique he says is too slow for HD video.
“There’s no hardware acceleration. It’s all software,” Rayfield said. “Everyone’s talking about Android for cell phones, but the reality doesn’t exist for the larger displays [of a smartbook.]”
A Google spokeswoman declined to respond to Rayfield’s comments about Android.
Rayfield’s comments echo those about Android by others in the emerging smartbook space. Kerry McGuire, director of strategic alliances at ARM, told Computerworld recently, “I do think that there is more work that can and will be done to bring the things we love about Android into form factors [such as netbooks.]”
Rayfield evinced even less enthusiasm for more mainstream flavors of Linux available on ARM, such as Canonical’s Ubuntu or Intel’s Moblin.
“The world soundly rejected the first netbooks that came out with Linux,” he said. “Printers didn’t work, and devices didn’t get recognized. The whole thing was a mess.”
Nvidia has garnered 42 design wins from 27 different manufacturers all building devices using Tegra, said Rayfield. More than half of the wins (26) are for smartbook or tablet designs. Those can arrive to market in just six months, versus two years for smartphones designed for telecom carriers, Rayfield said.
Rayfield echoed comments by Nvidia executives during its analyst day on Tuesday that Tegra could make up more than half of Nvidia’s sales ($3.4 billion in fiscal year ending January 2009) very soon.
“It’s an aggressive statement, no doubt. But we’ve got a pretty good pipeline,” Rayfield said. Also, it won’t be long before consumers, rather than re-ripping Blu-ray movies to watch on different devices, will expect to be able to carry a single, HD-quality version of their videos around with them for easy sharing and viewing on large-screen TVs.
By using its own graphical expertise in Tegra rather than licensing it, Nvidia hopes to reap gross profit margins of 45% on Tegra by charging commensurately for its better performance over competing platforms from Qualcomm (Snapdragon) and Freescale Semiconductor, Rayfield said.
The next generation of Tegra due early next year will boast 4 times the performance of today’s version, while the 2011 update will improve performance 10 times over today’s, he said.
The size of the notebook battery market: best-laptop-battery.co.uk
The size of the notebook battery market: best-laptop-battery.co.uk
At present, the data show that in 2004 the domestic holdings of the notebook is expected to exceed 10 million units, the notebook battery market has reached 100 billion yuan. Have tens of billions of dollars of the market means that business opportunities have tens of billions of dollars. Faced with such a huge market, domestic and foreign enterprises have entered the cell area of the notebook sony battery.
Its portable notebook computers, fashion and other functions to occupy half of the PC market, coupled with the dramatic fall in prices, while being more acceptable to consumers. A long time, the ultra-thin notebook, ultra-light, multi-function is the manufacturers, consumers tirelessly pursue. To this end, the technical staff continue to carry out a variety of efforts, through CD-ROM plug-in, U disk to replace the floppy disk, laptop computers have been getting smaller and smaller, more and more thin. However, with the increasing speed of computer, notebook computer on battery power but not with the requirements of the small size of the reduction, but increased the. The world more than 99% of notebook computers for use in Japan, South Korea produced a cylindrical liquid lithium-ion battery, Cylindrical lithium-ion battery as a result of the energy is high and the cost is relatively low and firmly holds the notebook computer market, even though no one think that it is used in notebook computers on a thick too. Japan and South Korea’s production of liquid lithium rectangular notebook battery can power the thinning, but the price is too high, it is difficult to be universal; China liquid lithium, although a lower price, but not the consistency, security, fail. This allows notebook manufacturers have agreed to make difficult choices: First, to meet energy costs and then consider the case of thin.
TCL and other Chinese battery manufacturers rise of polymer solution to this dilemma is to provide the best option. High-capacity ultra-thin polymer batteries is expected to solve these problems, variable thickness, size, variety of polymer lithium battery will become the next generation leader in notebook battery! At present, the polymer laptop battery capacity can be achieved 2 ~ 8Ah. As the capacity, size adaptable, polymer batteries have not only solved the notebook personalized design thickness, but also resolved the use of 18650 and 103450 brought about by the battery cost.
It is reported that at the global level, TCL is able to mature a few design and manufacture of polymer laptop battery energy of high-tech enterprises. TCL polymer lithium-ion battery performance close to the level of similar products in Japan, the world has gone beyond the local level. Electrochemical impedance, particularly in battery energy density has been much better than the similar products. At the same time, the price compared to Japan, South Korea, and other battery companies have absolute advantage. Faced with tens of billions of dollars the size of the notebook battery market, TCL King vowed to batteries, the cost will be the absolute scale of tens of billions of won the top spot in the notebook vgp-bps5 battery , vgp-bps5a battery market.
Under the TCL Group, TCL King to Battery Co., Ltd., and its lithium-polymer batteries have been the state of the ministries and the central leadership of particular concern was the inclusion of the state’s key new product trial production projects and state-level Torch Program projects. Battery Co., Ltd. TCL payment to Mr. Li Fengqi general manager said that the company can respond to the Group’s “plan dragon and tiger”, a large scale into the communications market and IT market, determined in 2007, before the realization of “Jackie Chan four years,” the objectives of: Dragon the world, become the world’s five strong lithium battery suppliers, to achieve annual sales of more than 200 million industry.
Battery rental shops debut in Xi’an
Tenants do not sell only to ensure that the battery recycling, reducing pollution of waste batteries battery rental shops debut in Xi’an.
Yesterday morning, news came Yanta Road, Xi’an is located in the middle of the battery rental shops, I saw the wall hanging at the counter to a foot long automatic charge counters, 50 cabinets full of a rechargeable battery is recharged . Provided by the leasing of high-performance rechargeable battery, when the lease can only pay a little deposit rental use. The store’s staff told reporters that China is a big country to use the battery every year a large number of batteries to be used, due to the late collection of used batteries is not very perfect, a great deal to the environment pollution. It is understood that my battery has reached 18 billion annually, about 850,000 tons each year, a black garbage, and used batteries can be a result of 60 liters of water, 1.6 square meters of land pollution. Staff said that they do so can reduce the pollution of used batteries, in order to contribute to environmental protection, but also to enhance public awareness of environmental protection.
The world’s fastest fuel cell car
September 20, France Mar seille, Hysun3000 fuel cell vehicle traveling from Berlin to Barcelona, just a little two kilograms of hydrogen fuel, creating a new world record. Never use automotive hydrogen fuel in just ran so far away. This low consumption is equivalent to 100 kilometers per 0.2 liters of fuel used. Hysun the core of the car is a proton exchange membrane fuel cell asus battery and a42-a3 battery . When braking, the motor generating the equivalent of, at the same time control of capacitors. For such a tricycle, it is the air resistance is only half of ordinary cars. Not the driver and hydrogen fuels, vehicles weighing 120 kilograms, the maximum speed to 80 km per hour, usually for the parade of the 38 kmh speed.
Japan, a substantial increase in solar power: best-laptop-battery.co.uk
Japan, a substantial increase in solar power: best-laptop-battery.co.uk
Researchers in Japan through technical improvements, the success of the flexible type of dye-sensitized solar cells a substantial increase in power, each 12 square centimeters can be the output of the laptop battery plate voltage above 4 V, is expected to be used to provide power, such as outdoor advertising.
Type dye-sensitized solar cell material in the film with pigment and power generation components for power generation, and compared to silicon solar cells, and its advantages can be bent, using the printing technology, which costs relatively low. However, before such a flexible fujitsu battery, even in strong sunlight, each 12 square centimeters of voltage they can only produce 0.7 volts.
Yum-Tong University, Yokohama, Japan palace □ edge research team led by Professor installed in the micro-film electrode structure, the power components on the module of 12 square centimeters, in the sunlight, the voltage can be achieved during the day for more than 4 V at night with exposure to house lights, voltage up to 3.6 volts.
Improved type dye-sensitized photoelectric conversion efficiency of solar cells up to 4-5%, is a standard silicon solar cell one-third. Maximum power of 0.4 watts, test products will be linked to the three modules, voltage up to 12 volts or more. Typically, the voltage above 10 V can be used for storage of electrical appliances and rechargeable lithium batteries, the average cell phone charge 4 hours to complete.
Flexible solar cells that, if the practical application of inputs for outdoor advertising, laptop computers, cell phones and home appliances, such as the provision of power supply products.
Modified for the Japanese to develop fuel cell-based anti-CO catalyst poisoning
Oriented development is being stepped up to the quality of domestic gas-based fuel cells, Japan Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology recently developed anti-CO poisoning (CO lead to performance degradation of the fuel polar) a new type of catalyst. Plans to 1000 hours continuous operation through testing the reliability of evaluation after 1 to 2 years of practical input.
Modified gas-type fuel cell is a device modified from the use of city gas to generate electricity to extract hydrogen. Modification when accompanied by the emergence of hydrogen with fpcbp83, fpcbp121, fpcbp95 biological CO would currently used Pt-Ru alloy catalyst poisoning, resulting in decreased fuel cell output power. It is said that in the fuel cell when the CO concentration in the beginning of the work of more than 100ppm. The CO concentration of 100ppm at Pt-Ru alloy catalyst of the output current reduced to 0%, while the new type of catalyst can be maintained at about 40%. If the new catalyst, we can greatly simplify the removal of part of CO, thereby reducing the cost of modification devices.
The development of a new type of catalyst is the Pt precursor on the metal complexes and organic carbon particles, the inert gas used in electric furnace heated to +200 ℃ ~ +300 ℃ generated. Organic metal salen complexes can be used both synthetic material and VO, but also can be used mqph combination with Ni. Although the composition of the new catalyst is not clear, but the head of inference “is likely to be Pt and organic metal complex polymer formed.” As a result of the low-cost organic metal complex, non-use of Ru, but also minimize the amount of Pt, so the cost of raw materials, only the original 1 / 3.
How to use and maintenance of mobile phone batteries?
As consumers demand ever-increasing communication, cell phone battery demand doubled, greatly stimulated the production of the manufacturer. At present, large and small, battery manufacturing plant, variety of brands of batteries available in the market tend to buy when the dazzling consumers. Therefore, how to use and maintenance of mobile phone battery has become a hot topic of concern to consumers.
1. Time to acquire new fpcbp145 battery , fpcbp77 battery and fpcbp80 batteries.
During the initial period of 3 to 5 times the best guarantee of a charge from 12 to 14 hours, in particular, lithium-ion batteries it has a strong inertia of the fully activated, the use of the best performance can be better achieved.
2. Careful selection of chargers.
The best option and battery manufacturers with products; to the battery charging and other household electrical appliances to avoid sharing the same socket, as far as possible, using a dedicated outlet.
3. Do not frequent recharging.
The best of each pre-charge the battery fully discharge to shutdown, and a sufficient charge is not a good time longer, the choice of batteries and chargers to the distributors must understand their characteristics, there is no protection circuit for the battery is full after that should stop charging so that you can extend the battery life cycle.
4. Do not rush charge.
Battery or if there is heavy impact accidentally, and be sure to check whether the battery casing cracks or leakage, to avoid the occurrence of the explosion; if the battery has been rain, flooding, and we must first dry cloth dry put it in a well-ventilated place to dry and should not be rubbed on a cell phone into the use or charging, to avoid short-circuit or cell phone fpcbp102, fpcbp112 battery , fpcbp152 battery explosion.
Japanese Prime Minister luxury new homes, battery-powered: todaybattery.com
Japanese Prime Minister luxury new homes, battery-powered: todaybattery.com
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will be the enjoyment of the world’s first luxury laptop battery high-tech treatment that the Prime Minister, the Japanese government recently decided that a new site for Koizumi buy new polymer fuel cell to provide electricity and thermal energy. In other words, even Koizumi’s future will be taking a bath with hot water heated by the fuel cell to provide!
According to Japanese media, Japan’s cabinet secretary, the procurement of this item is on the development in 2002, and to make hydrogen energy as a residential and automotive energy to provide part of the plan, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for the construction of the new site is expected in late spring next year the time.
According to Natural Resources and Energy Agency officials to promote the use of fuel dell battery cells, said introduction, the size of the fuel cell is like a home air-conditioning unit, but after a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen can provide a stable current of 1 kW, which is a family of four the use of a day.
Japanese manufacturers of this new energy supply companies plan to begin selling early next year, this battery is designed as a supplement conventional energy sources. Relevant officials said that in tests of this fuel cell can be made to reduce energy consumption 20 percent, while household devices also reduce carbon dioxide output by 30%.
And installed at the residence of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is the fuel cell, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. and other Japanese companies to jointly develop several products, the current price of the product is still under negotiation.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s official residence will be built in a place next to its office here to handle day-to-day official Koizumi, but he is the temporary residence is located in far-off areas.
Metal roof integrated solar modules: 6y270 battery , c1295 batteries
Sharp announced on September 14, October 1 from the beginning of the listing without frame units can be directly over the roof of the “metal roof of a solar cell module body.” Divided into 5-watt type “NE-53Y1N” and 4-watt type “NE-38Y1N” two. Price for ¥ 26,880 (about 2070 yuan) and ¥ 22,050 (about 1700 yuan). Monthly production target of 2 million units.
Mainly oriented to Yamagata cap surrounded by cone-shaped roof and the roof installation. The use of steel roofing and solar modules to form one, direct coverage of the roof of the “cover construction method.” As the need to set up as the original bench, from the first class will be able to install the module roof Department. In particular, it is surrounded by cone-shaped roof, the largest installed capacity can be raised by 2 into.
In addition, the roof opened as there is no need can be completed as construction, it reached the lower construction costs and shorten the duration of the purpose of angle can also be expected to reduce processing cost. The design of the roof materials and solar cells using the separation may be based on the structure need to be replaced in the event of disasters and accidents are easy to maintain.
Roofing production Japanese JFE Steel’s “wing-watt.” With light weight, and corrosion characteristics of steel plate Galbarium (from aluminum, lead and silica sub-components of the plating alloy steel) for high durability coating. In addition, use of anti-seismic and wind design.
Energy revolution, the Bluetooth headset you have to fuel cell
A few days ago, with the fuel cell in mobile phones, notebook dell inspiron 500m battery, dell inspiron 510m battery in the successful application, Nokia has also started to study and test the use of new energy products Bluetooth headset. They are just introduced to improve the Nokia HS-3W Bluetooth headset, so that fuel cells have the capacity for the power supply. At present, Nokia has not yet been published using the fuel cell fuel cell with ordinary lithium different charging process can be completed in just a few seconds. Users to inject a small amount of methanol fuel cell inside the container, to supply to the Bluetooth headset. The edge of the hole headset allows air to enter the fuel cell. And then the oxygen in the air reacts with the liquid and produce energy. Nokia officials indicated that the size of a bottle of perfume bottles of 12 milliliters of methanol, we can support the call for 10 hours and battery standby time will reach nearly 400 hours.
Plastic solar cells – writer todaybattery.com
Plastic solar cells – writer todaybattery.com
At present, the streets of some cities have been able to see some battery-powered(laptop battery) by solar energy facilities. After decades of research and development, such as materials to silicon solar cell manufacturing costs are still expensive and difficult to install, photoelectric conversion efficiency are also low, only about 12-15%% (now the world’s best silicon-ray power conversion efficiency of about 30%% or so), the cost of electricity was about 22 cents, than coal-fired thermal power plant was 4 cents higher electricity costs.
The good news is that the next generation of solar cells could eventually make solar power competitive. Is a new type of solar cell photovoltaic cells embedded in the surface of plastic film, made of thin film solar. This low-cost thin film solar power generation, conversion efficiency, can have multiple uses. Massachusetts in the United States have a Konarka Technologies, Inc., the company has developed a technology, this new technology are able to titanium dioxide and a dye to absorb light in the plastic film coating the surface of the dye molecules absorb the photon excitation of titanium dioxide electronics in order to generate electricity. Konarka the end of this year the company expects to commercialize its first new type of solar cell market-sony battery, this new type of solar cells will be mainly used in consumer electronics devices such as notebook computers.
Some large companies are also concerned about a new type of solar cell technology. Siemens developed a new technology is a nano-scale carbon-60 molecules with the electrical conductivity of the polymer melt with solar cells made of plastic; General Electric Company and the United States is the use of an organic light-emitting diodes as the absorption material to make plastic solar cells.
Plastic solar cells, in fact, many materials can have a generation capacity. For example, plastic solar cells can be embedded in the wall box laptop computer, you can at any time in the light charge under the condition of the computer; plastic solar cells can also be installed in the electric vehicle body, for electrical power supply; house roof can be covered by plastic solar cells in order to day-to-day electricity supply.
The benefits of this technology will be enormous. Over the years, the 220 billion U.S. dollars of U.S. electric power industry because of its large power plants and power grid system to maintain low-cost carriers refused to change. If the plastic solar cells will allow us to live a life of self-sufficiency of power, the power company will not be able to refuse to change forever.
Final knowledge of the U.S. tort battery China
In yesterday’s “2004 White Paper on U.S. firms in China” press conference, Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce Chairman of the Subcommittee on intellectual property protection at home Zhu Fan to the Post revealed that seven Chinese sony vgp-bps8 battery, sony vgp-bps9 battery manufacturers in the United States and infringement of intellectual property rights have been complaints that this year September 2, the United States has been made final. It has been revealed that within 60 days thereafter, the U.S. president will decide whether or not to approve the final.
Infringement complaints began in May last year. At that time, the United States and the Energizer battery EV-EREADY submit an application to the ITC, the allegations from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan and other countries and regions the production of 25 mercury-free alkaline batteries and spare parts business against its “mercury-free alkaline batteries” intellectual property rights, ITC decided to start the 337 surveys (337 surveys the United States Tariff Act No. 337, ITC handled in accordance with Section 337 cases, 90% for the infringement of intellectual property rights).
In June this year, ITC preliminary ruling that the infringement is established, it is proposed to include Nanfu, Changhong, Shuanglu, leopard, Wang, head of the Chinese enterprises, including the deportation order issued unlimited.
Fan Zhu told reporters at home, at present, China’s intellectual property protection in China is already a headache for U.S. companies do the most. Many U.S. high-tech enterprise in making business decisions when intellectual property protection of the environment in China as a decision on whether the first element of the production. In addition, many consumer goods industries, said China’s troubles encountered counterfeit. It is reported that in 2003, the United States by Section 337 of the prosecution case in the global scope of a total of 18 cases, of which China accounted for 7 cases. 1-7 this year, the 17 337 investigations against Chinese enterprises in the Mainland will have 3.
The United States introduced universal flashlight, you can use any type battery
Recently, the U.S. trial of a company that can use any type of flashlight sony vgp-bps9a, sony vgp-bps9/b batteries , and last week before the powerful hurricane. “Ivan” to reach the U.S. coast before the disaster to the forefront in Florida and sent to two other areas This truck has been the spot known as “rapid transformation” of the flashlight-type can be loaded on the 1st (D), the second (C No.) to a small number (AA) in batteries, can be used, and the torch light the same brightness, but in the use of the length of time there are some differences. This torch is installed a sliding lock, equipped with batteries of different sizes, just to lock the sliding buckle according to demand, flashlight can be used. With such a convenient flashlight, in the dark do not need to re-light a candle or lantern.