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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Grace Kuo, TSMC, NTU unveil 3-D TV chip breakthrough. Taiwan Today, Feb
17, 2011.
http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem
=151615&ctNode=445
(“'The chip allows viewers, regardless of their position, to look at the
image of an object from various angles, as if it is right in front of them,'
TSMC said. According to the company, current 3-D imaging techniques
simulate what the human eye sees from different angles, but can only present
images from fixed angles")
My comment: To be frank, I do not know what the quotation exactly means. But
there are two clues.
(a) Peter Clarke, TSMC develops any-angle 3-D TV chip. EETimes, Feb
17, 2011.
The content says less than the report of Taiwan Today, but "any angle" in
the title sounds like 3D hologram to me. (Taiwan Today is an internet
-based news outlet, published by Government Information Office of Taiwan 中
華民國行政院 新聞局.)
(b) Press release: 台積公司與國立臺灣大學攜手合作 成功開發全球首顆40奈米3D
TV晶片. TSMC, Feb 16, 2011.
http://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom
/PRListingNewsAction.do?language=E
("該晶片也將在二月下旬於國際固態電路研討會上(ISSCC)正式發表")
(i) International Solid-State Circuits Conference - February 20-24 | San
Francisco, CA
http://isscc.org/
(2) 3D printing | The Printed World: Three-dimensional printing from
digital designs will transform manufacturing and allow more people to start
making things. Economist, Feb 10, 2011.
http://www.economist.com/node/18114221?
story_id=18114221&CFID=156718123&CFTOKEN=46004197
My comment:
(a) Bristol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol
(The town of Brycgstow (Old English, "the place at the bridge")[15] appears
to have been founded in c.1000)
Compare
Cambridge (Granta- (river name) + O.E. brycg bridge)
where O.E. stands for Old English.
(b) Take a look at the photos and the graphic (whose caption reads, "Our TQ
article explains the technology behind the 3-D printing process") before
deciding if you want to read further. The graphic (where TQ represetns
Technology Quarterly of the Economist) does not appear in the print, but it
helps a lot to understand the process, in contrast with paragraph 7 of this
article.
(c) The ARTICLE is introduced in the front pages of--labeled Leader in--the
magazine by a one-page
Technology | Print me a Stradivarius; How a new manufacturing technology
will change the world.
There is no need to read it, except, perhaps, a glance at the picture, which
suggests that a high-end violin may someday be printed.
(i) Stradivarius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius
(The name Stradivarius is associated with violins built by members of the
Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari [(1644-1737; Italian)])
(3) Nokia at the crossroads l Blazing Platforms: It is not just the world
’s biggest handset-maker that has lost its edge. So has Europe’s whole
mobile-phone industry. Economist, Feb 10, 2011.
http://www.economist.com/node/18114689
?story_id=18114689
My comment:
(a) This article demonstrates the strength of the Economist--and explains
why the Economist stands alone whereas other news magazines are under siege
(losing both money and readership).
(b) There is no need to read the article, except a peep at the graphics,
whose headings are "Mobile-phone makers' world handset market share, % ...
and their share of profits, % of total"
I have never used a mobile (or cell) phone; I can not tell quality. All
other reports so far talk about market share, based on which I did not feel
the urgency of new Nokia CEO, an American and the first foreign CEO of Nokia
. But the graphics explains Nokia is in a dire strait--and why HTC of Taiwan
is prosperous, though its global market share of mobile phones is trivial (
and its corresponding share of smarket phones is just 1.5%).
Note:
(i) No Japanese company is listed. Japan used to make terrific mobile phones
which could do many things but somehow were not sold abroad. After
introduction of iPhone, Japanese mobile phone makers are not heard of any
more.
(ii) In 2010, white-box mobile phones 山寨手机 (most of which were made in
China, with chipsets from Taiwan's MediaTek) made up 22.5% of global mobile
phone market. I am surprised that white box account for negligible profits.
MediaTek certainly makes a bundle. |
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