Development of Industry’s Highest Rated Current Multilayer Ferrite Coils by TDK-EPC
TDK-EPC has announced the development of multilayer ferrite coil featuring industry’s highest rated current which is 2.5 times higher than company’s existing products. The new MLZ2012-H series comes in a case size of EIA 2012, featuring current capability of 700 mA at 1.0 microH with a form factor of 2.0 x 1.25 x 1.25 mm3, ideal for use in compact electronic devices such as notebook PCs and digital still and video cameras. Read more
Introduction of New Power MOSFET Products by RENESAS
Renesas Electronics has released three new power MOSFET products, the RJK0210DPA, RJK0211DPA, and RJK0212DPA, designed for DC/DC converters that area used in such application as general point-of-load, base stations, computer servers as well as notebook PCs. The new power MOSFET are capable of controlling the voltage conversion circuits of the CPU and memory, like being used as a step-down circuit for converting the 12-volt voltage supplies by a battery to 1.05 V for use by CPU. The new products achieve approximately 40% lower figure of merit (FOM), on-state resistance times gate charge in comparison to the company’s existing products, resulting in reduction of power loss during the voltage conversion. Read more
TOSHIBA Unveils Industry’s First Notebook PC Featuring Playback of 3D Content
Toshiba has just made an announcement on introduction of world’s first notebook PC capable of 3D content playback. The new “dynabook TX/98MBL” will display the 3D content in the Blu-ray 3D format . The new “dynabook TX/98MBL” has a 15.6-inch LCD screen with LED backlight at a 120Hz scan rate. The new PC comes with WinDVD BD for playback the 3D content as well as NVIDIA 3D vision software and hardware. The new “dynabook TX/98MBL” 3D playback capability is based on the active shutter technology, where the system’s active shutter LCD glasses lighten and darken at the same fast refresh rate of the 120Hz of LCD, with an effective referesh rate of each eye of 60Hz, resulting in a high quality stereoscopic image. The new PC comes with a pair of wireless 3D active shutter glasses. Read more
TOSHIBA Unveils its New Industry’s Highest Areal Density Hard Disk Drives
This is becoming all case of Déjà vu, as Toshiba yet again beat its own record for highest areal density for Hard Disk Drive (HDD) by announcement of its new 2.5-inch 750GB HDD, industry leading storage capacity in this class. The new HDDs are new addition to company’s existing 5,400 RPM line of 2.5-inch HDDs. The new MK7559GSSXP HDD comes in a form factor of 9.5 millimeter-high, with two-platter design. Read more
Development of Low Cost High Capacity Lithium-Copper Battery by AIST
As use of rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries in such products as cellular phones and notebook PC is reaching commodity level, extensive research in developing high capacity batteries for use in electric vehicles is being carried out. But use of conventional lithium-ion batteries for use in automotive application faces some issues such as its resource limited materials that is being used as its positive electrode which is either cobalt or manganese as well as its high cost and complex manufacturing process which requires high-temperature sintering and control of fine structures. Furthermore, the recycling process for such batteries requires difficult step of separating active material from conductive additives, carbon, binder and the collector electrode. Read more
World’s first technology capable of remote deletion of data even notebook PC has been powered off
In an ongoing effort by Fujitsu to make mobile environments safer and to increase organizational productivity and work efficiency by allowing notebook PC users to use them outside their office environment, Fujitsu in a joint development with Fujitsu Laboratories and Willcom, inc. has unveiled a new security solution targeting corporate clients enabling the data on a notebook PC’s hard disk drive (HDD) to be remotely deleted by using Willcom’s PHS network. The new security solution provides a mean for corporate clients for protection against information leaks in an event of loss or theft of their notebook PCs. Read more
World’s first Notebook PC with Optical Sensor LCD by Sharp
Sharp newly released PC-NJ70A-B/-W Mebius series Notebook PC equipped with optical sensor LCD world’s first offers the user with much improved Handwriting Recognition plus Finger-Touch Expression capability. Based on the new touch sensing recognition technology the 4-inch optical sensor LCD pad a on this newly developed notebook PC offers pen-based input of drawings and text as well as multiple finger touch gesture capability allowing users to enlarge, shrink, or rotate items on its screen. This capability is in addition to conventional track pad and mouse operational capability. Read more
