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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Robin Kwong, Arm Says Intel Will Not Gain Foothold in Tablet PCs;
Interview Warren East Chief executive, Arm; The chipmaker is keen to
extend its market reach. Financial Times, Nov. 5, 2010.
Quote:
"Arm's chip design powers almost all major tablet PCs, including Apple's
popular iPad device
""Intel has been pushing to bring its 'Atom' processor from netbooks, where
the company currently dominates to the tablets and smartphones sector. * * *
Mr. East, however, says * * * 'Atom designs are just not good enough in
terms of power consumption [right now]. Intel knows this.'
"He said tablet sales next year * * * could be anywhere from 30 m to 60m [
but] probably at the higher end of that range [as Taiwanese makers are going
to showcase new tablets next January at Consumer Electronics Show]
* The brackets and right now within are in the print; I did not add them.
(2) Jung-Ah Lee, Samsung Cracks Tablet Market; Electronics firm weighs new
versions of Galaxy Tab, pressing to sell a million by year end. Wall Street
Journal, Nov. 5, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703805704575593550749221716.html
My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the text. In the print but not online, there is
an illustration which is essentially condensed from, and credited with
Andrew Rassweiler, Samsung Galaxy Tab Carries $205 Bill of Materials,
iSuppli Teardown Reveals. iSuppli, Nov. 1, 2010.
http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns-Manufacturing-and-Pricing/News/Pages/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-Carries-$205-Bill-of-Materials-iSuppli-Teardown-Reveals.aspx
(b) The WSJ illustration mentioned above identifies four parts that are from
Samsung:
.....Parts .................................Manufacturer
(i) Display & Touch Screen .......Samsung Mobile Display
(ii) Memory ..............................SanDisk + Samsung Semiconductor
(iii) Battery ...............................Samsung SDI
(iv) Apps Processing ................Samsung Semiconductor
(3) Chris Nuttall, Scratch Beneath the Surface; An interesting number of
devices, from the Samsung Galaxy Tab to the MacBook Air, are more than they
seem. Financial Times, Nov. 5, 2010.
("The TFT-LCD (thin film transistor liquid crystal display) screen [of
Samsung Tab] is not as vivid as Samsung's Amoled (active mattrix organic
light emitting diode) displays on some of its smartphones, nor of the same
quality as the iPad's screen, which benefits from a technology called IPS
(In Plane Switching).
Note:
(a) iPad: It is hard to believe we could fit so many good ideas into
something so thin.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/design/
("And because it uses a display technology called IPS (in-plane switching),
it has a wide, 178° viewing angle. So you can hold it almost any way you
want and still get a brilliant picture, with excellent color and contrast.")
(b) "In-Plane Switching (IPS) is an LCD technology first introduced in 1996
by Hitachi. It was initially developed to correct the poor viewing angles
and color problems that LCDs had at the time."
Chris Brandrick, iPad: IPS Screen Technology Explained. PCWorld, Jan. 29,
2010.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/188141/ipad_ips_screen_technology_explained.html |
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