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A Full House at Fakuma 2015

Exhibition space in Friedrichshafen, Germany, at this year’s Fakuma, the showcase for the global plastics processing industry, is already sold out, well in advance of its October 13-17 billing. Here, we take a brief look at some of the injection-molding technology that will be on show at this popular and hugely important event.   ENGEL..

3D XPoint: Intel and Micron talk up a new type of non-volatile memory

Intel and Micron have developed their own “unique material compounds” for 3D XPoint memory, although for now they are unspecified.   It’s stated to be 1000x faster than NAND Flash, has 1000x the endurance of NAND Flash (physically lasts a lot longer), and 10x the density of DRAM. However, it’s not necessarily faster than DRAM…

Quantum Dots Part II: Quantum Dots Win Big in Las Vegas

Typically, display and TV companies are trying to impose a brand-like veneer on their use of QD technology, and in the case of LG it’s referenced as “Nano Spectrum Technology”.   Not to be outdone, LGE’s formidable Korean rival, Samsung, chose to unveil its “SUHD” line of ultra-high-definition (UHD) TVs at the Las Vegas show…

Quantum Dots: More than a Quantum of Solace for the Global TV Industry

Commercial application in TVs The back story to the use of QDs in TVs is the delay in bringing affordable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs to market. While self-emissive OLED displays, free from the inefficiencies of backlighting, have been the holy grail of the global display industry, their commercial development has been frustratingly slow, for..

Global PC Sales Continued to Decline in Second-Quarter 2015

Market research firm Gartner has issued a second-quarter 2015 “update” to its report, “Forecast: PCs, Ultramobiles and Mobile Phones, Worldwide, 2012-2019”.   The global PC shipment market is expected to total 300 million units in 2015, a decline of 4.5% over the 2014 figure. “We do not expect the global PC market to recover until..

Sounds Excellent! Vesper Develops a MEMS Microphone with a Difference

In June 2015, Vesper launched VM101, its first piezoelectric MEMS microphone, claiming an SNR of 68 dB, or double the performance of high-end capacitive MEMS microphones, typically rated for an SNR of 65 dB.   The secret is in the design of the transducer. The transducer of a capacitive MEMS microphone contains a diaphragm. When..

News - 9 years ago

More Fiber in the Diet: Carbon-Fiber Composites See Increasing Demand

Website aviationbenefits.org sees significant advantages in the Boeing 787’s extensive adoption of composites: “Composites, which make up 50% of the aircraft’s structure, are lighter, stronger, more resistant to impact, as well as more resistant to corrosion and fatigue than aluminium alloys. They open up new design opportunities such as larger windows and lower cabin altitude…

News - 9 years ago

Happy Chinese New Year of the Goat

All of the team at Techworks Asia would like to wish our friends, families, clients and partners a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year. 隽科公关仝人恭祝各位春节快乐、万事如意! 请点击下图阅读中文贺咭内容 雋科公關仝人恭祝各位新春快樂、萬事如意! 請點擊下圖閱讀中文賀咭內容 Please click on the image below for your Chinese New Year message:

News - 10 years ago

MEMS on the Move

If you’ve ever wondered how your smartphone manages to flip the orientation of the display, depending on how it’s being held, the answer is your phone is fitted with an accelerometer in the form of a MEMS, a microelectromechanical system – a chip with moving parts. Increasingly, MEMS devices are finding their way into consumer..

News - 10 years ago

Moving Ahead in LEDs: China’s LED Sector Sees Fast Growth

China has fast emerged as a major player in the global light-emitting diode (LED) industry, creating a wealth of business opportunities. Driven by demand for LCD-TV backlighting in particular, as well as the emerging market for solid-state lighting (SSL), China is rapidly increasing its imports of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment, while trying..

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