Apple’s co-operation with the Best Buy to sales iPad
Apple Tuesday said the upcoming iPad's sales model will work with iPhone (mobile Internet) introduced a similar pattern when it is only through the company's direct sales channels and the cooperation of a number of specific retailers.
Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, Apple's (Tim Cook) at the Goldman Sachs Annual Technical Conference, said, iPad will be mainly through retailers, online education, and other direct sales, but also through the Best Buy and other stores sell apple iBook G4 12-inch battery.
Although Cook did not mention Apple in the U.S. operator partners, and his attitude shows AT & T's retail stores may be sold iPad. In the overseas, Apple's top retailers may sell the product in the physical stores.
Cook says that he has a iPad has been 6 months, and that, once the user experience of the iPad would not buy online this. He said: "This is an incredible experience, and we are very excited, anxious to ship as early as possible."
Cook also said that does not worry about iPad will seize the iPod Touch and Mac and other Apple products in the market. He said: "499 U.S. dollars the price is a good bargain, and it can give you amazing experience."
The hazards of wasted batteries
Used batteries Introduction
1. Battery components: batteries, rechargeable batteries, composition: zinc skin (metal), carbon rod, mercury, sulfuric acid compounds, copper cap; batteries with lead-based compounds. For example: 1, the composition of waste zinc-manganese batteries, weighing 70 grams, of which carbon rod 5.2 grams, 7.0 grams of zinc skin, manganese powder 25 grams, 0.5 gram of copper cap, the other 32 grams.
2. Battery Type: Battery mainly disposable batteries, rechargeable batteries and car batteries. Disposable batteries, including button batteries, ordinary batteries and alkaline manganeseInspiron 8500 battery,Inspiron 8600 battery, disposable batteries more mercury. Secondary battery mainly refers to rechargeable batteries containing cadmium. Automotive Waste Batteries contain acid and heavy metals lead.
3. The quantity of batteries: DC, MP3 and other digital products with a whopping speed of development, but also are using the battery, battery usage is increasing rapidly, if they are not put into action, the battery will happen sooner or later the phenomenon of Mt.
Waste battery looks modest, but the harm had been great. If you know the battery contains mercury, cadmium and lead metals harm, you will know that waste batteries much.
Waste Battery hazards
Battery products harmful to the environment are mainly acid, alkali and other electrolyte solution and heavy metal pollution. Pollutants in different types of batteries are also different.
In general, the battery of harmful substances are mainly Zn, Hg, CNi, Pb and other heavy metals; lead-acid batteries in the H2S04; a variety of alkaline batteries and lithium batteries KOH electrolyte, etc. IiPP6. Hg and its compounds, especially organic mercury compounds, has a strong biological toxicity, bioconcentration faster rate and a longer biological half-life of brain organs. Easy Cd accumulation in plants and animals in vivo, affecting the growth of plants and animals, are highly toxic. Pb on the person's chest, kidney, reproductive, cardiovascular and other organs and systems have adversely affected the performance of mental decline, kidney damage, infertility and high blood pressure. Zn, Ni toxicity is relatively small, but more than a certain concentration range, would have adverse effects and harm the human body. Waste battery acid, alkaline hydrolysis would affect the quality of the soil solution, the pH value of water benefits, so that soil and water acidification or alkalization. Battery electrolyte composition of pollution is one of the major components of soluble heavy metals, particularly lead-acid batteries in a large number of sulfuric acid electrolyte lead and nickel-cadmium batteries cadmium hydroxide. Batteries of heavy metal ions dissolved in the soil or water the roots of plants and is absorbed, when the animals to plants as food-stuffs, the body will accumulate heavy metals. Human eating food containing heavy metals, vegetables and meat, water, along the food chain, heavy metal accumulation within the body would be. As the heavy metal ions in the body difficult to excrete, will eventually damage the nervous system and liver function.
Waste Battery Recycling Study
2.1 Waste Battery Recycling Status
Domestic use, most lead-acid battery industry battery, lead storage batteries accounted for more than 50% of the total cost, mainly in the fire, wet metallurgical processes, as well as solid-phase electro-reduction technology. The outer shell is plastic, can be regenerated, the basic realization of no secondary pollution.
Small secondary batteries are currently used by more nickel-cadmium, nickel hydrogen and lithium-ion batteries, nickel-cadmium batteries, cadmium is a strictly controlled environment, one of heavy metal elements, lithium-ion batteries in the organic electrolyte, nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride battery The alkaline battery of supporting materials and manufacture of copper and other heavy metals, constitute environmental pollution. A small secondary battery current total is only hundreds of millions of domestic use only, and most of the smaller, low value waste batteries to use, coupled with the use of scattered, most for domestic waste disposal, there is the cost of their recovery and management of problem of recycling there are some technical problems.
Civil Battery is the use of the largest and most scattered battery products, the domestic annual consumption of 8 billion. There are two series of zinc-manganese and alkaline manganese, as well as a small amount of zinc-silver, lithium batteries and other varieties. Zinc-manganese batteries, alkaline zinc-manganese batteries, zinc-silver batteries are normally used for mercury or mercury compounds as corrosion inhibitor, mercury and mercury compounds are highly toxic substances. Waste batteries as living garbage incineration, the waste batteries Hg, Cd, Pb, Zn and other heavy metal part of the row of people at a high temperature atmosphere, to become part of the ash, resulting in secondary pollution.
2.2 Recycling of Waste Dry Battery Technology
a. Artificial separation recycling technology
The general classification is dry, cut open a simple mechanical, artificial leather isolated zinc, plastic cover, carbon rods and so on, the remnants of Mn02, water, a mixture of manganese stone anyone to return to brick kiln calcination, made of dehydrated Mn02, this method simple, but the occupation of labor are more cost-effective small.
b. Pyro-recycling technology
Generally is dry classification, broken, into the rotary kiln at 1100 ~ 1300 degrees Celsius of high temperatures, zinc and zinc chloride is oxidized to zinc oxide with the flue gas exhaust, with cyclone recovery of zinc oxide, the remaining two manganese oxide and manganese stones into the water, residues, further recovery of manganese and other substances, this method is easy, the average smelter Needless to additional equipment can be recycled zinc.
c. Wet-recycling technology
According to zinc, manganese dioxide can be dissolved in acid in principle, the waste dry batteries classification, broken, placed in leaching tanks, by adding dilute sulfuric acid (100 ~ 120g / L) for leaching obtained zinc sulfate solution, the rule of law must be used electrolytic metal zinc, copper residues separated by washing cap, carbon rods, the residues Mn02, water, stone by calcination of manganese obtained Mn02. The methods used to roast a leaching method and direct leaching.
Wet and fire wears compared with less investment, low cost, factory speed, high-profit, technical flexibility and other advantages, but can not guarantee full recovery of harmful ingredients.
3. Battery recycling use of the process of secondary pollution prevention
The above three types of recovery methods are simple, but have less, there is a secondary pollution problem, measured by a large number of experiments, we have a viable method of secondary pollution prevention and control.
Waste dry batteries first classification to mechanistic cut open, the isolated copper cap, zinc skin, respectively recycled. The remaining carbon package of material through the magnetic iron, press the solid-liquid ratio 1:4 of flooding the system with the 1 hour, take the upper clear liquid to evaporation, crystallization, the main component of sediment is Mn02, MnO (OH), acetylene black , Carbon and other substances, by adding refining kiln to 600 degrees Celsius, the resulting smoke was condensed by the condensing fluid after regular cleaning can be very pure mercury. But also to prevent the mercury vapor pollution of the environment. In the calcination process, the mixture in a large number of acetylene black and carbon, will Mn02 restore MnO. The reaction process is as follows: 2Mn0 2 + C ---> 2MnO + C0 2. To the calcined material by solid-liquid ratio 1:4 by adding the concentration of less than 2mol / L sulfuric acid solution, the temperature 80 ℃, soaked 1 hour, reaction occurs as follows: MnO + H 2 S0 4 ---> MnS0 4 + H 2 0. to be manganese sulfate salt solution at the same time, will also be introducing other soluble heavy metals, sulfate.
Derived from metals such as zinc and copper skin melting can be directly used, ammonium chloride can be produced as a chemical fertilizer or purification reagents, manganese sulfate, animals, plant growth hormone ingredients can be used to paint the ink drying agents and some organic synthesis reactions catalyst, in addition is also used in paper making Inspiron 9200 battery,Inspiron 9300 battery, ceramics, printing and dyeing and the production of manganese reagents. Table 1 shows the zinc-manganese dry battery of recyclable material elements.
This means less investment recovery, using a simple equipment, easy to be achieved in the medium and small cities, thus eliminating the transport of waste batteries.
After the battery recycling solution, concentrated, and the reaction of metal complexes with EDTA can be the total elimination of secondary pollution. The determination of the solution after the recovery of used batteries of heavy metals contained in line with national environmental standards. To separate these metals, the use of its stability in different scalable processing. Table 2 for the metal ions and EDTA complexing stability constant.
4 battery recycling process of waste problems and suggestions
① After battery recycling can not be disposed, generally used pile. Piling up the process of the battery may leak or toxic substances from proliferating.
② As the batteries are different types of counterfeit products and more battery recycling also create difficulties, and some battery is mercury batteries, either cadmium batteries, and some with ammonium chloride as the electrolyte, while others have Zeyi chloride zinc as the electrolyte, it is proposed to use a uniform standard manufacturers logo battery types and contains the main ingredients for recycling.
③ enhance the development of high-performance environment-friendly batteries Inspiron 9400 battery,Inspiron B120 battery to achieve common civilian mercury-free batteries.
④ recycling of waste batteries, national policies should be given support.
PDA Pocket PC battery and its proper use
PDA Pocket PCs are now used in lithium-ion battery
The use of lithium-ion battery, pay attention to three points:
1, how to charge the battery for a new
The use of lithium batteries should be noted that a period of time after the battery is placed into hibernation, lower than normal capacity at this time, use of time has also come to shorten. However, lithium batteries can easily activated, as long as after 3-5 times the normal charge-discharge cycles the battery can be activated to restore to normal capacity. As the lithium battery's own characteristics, its decision is almost no memory effect. PDA Pocket PC so users of the new lithium battery in the activation process does not require special methods and equipment. Not only the theory that, from my own practice point of view, from the outset on the use of standard method of charging that "activation" approach is the best.
For the lithiumInspiron 1720 battery,Inspiron 1721 battery "activate" problem, many say is: recharge time must be more than 12 hours, repeated three times to do in order to activate the battery. This "The first three charging more than 12 hours to charge" was obviously from the nickel battery (such as nickel cadmium and nickel metal hydride) inherited from the argument. Therefore, this argument can be said that a beginning of miscommunication. Lithium batteries and nickel battery charge and discharge characteristics are very big difference, but also very clear to tell you that I have gone through all the serious official stressed that technical information and charge-off will discharge lithium batteries, especially lithium liquid ion battery causing great harm. Accordance with the standard charge and therefore the best time and the standard method of charging, in particular, not to carry out more than 12 hours of super-long charge. Usually, PDA Pocket PC specification introduced charging method is suitable for the PDA Pocket PC standard charging method.
In addition, the lithium batteries PDA handheld computer or the charger will automatically stop after the battery is full charge, there is no electricity nickel charger for 10 hours of the so-called "trickle" charge. In other words, if your lithium batteries in full, on the white charger is also sufficient. And we can not guarantee that no one battery charge and discharge protection circuit features and never change and the quality of fail-safe, so your battery will be a long-term at the brink of danger. This is also another charge against the chief reason.
In addition, in some PDA handheld computers, charging more than a certain time, if they do not remove the charger, this time not only to stop charging system will start to discharge - charge cycle. Perhaps the makers of this approach has its own purpose, it is clear that the battery and the PDA Pocket PC / charger is detrimental in terms of life expectancy. At the same time, long charging would take a long time, often at night, but to our power grid situation, at night in many places higher than the voltage, but also volatile. As already said, the lithium batteries is very precious, and it more than nickel in the electric charge and discharge aspects of fluctuations in the capacity of resistance is much less, so this brings additional risk.
In addition, another aspect can not be ignored is the lithium Inspiron 2600 battery,Inspiron 2650 battery is also not suitable for over-discharge, over-discharge of lithium batteries is also very unfavorable. This leads to the following questions.
2, normal use should be when to start charging
Because the number of charging and discharging is limited, so should be PDA Pocket PC the battery recharge light as much as possible. But I found one on the lithium-ion battery charge and discharge cycle test table, on the cycle life data is as follows:
Cycle life (10% DOD):> 1000 times
Cycle life (100% DOD):> 200 times
DOD is the depth of discharge in which the English abbreviation. Can be seen from the table may be the depth of charge and discharge times, 10% DOD cycle life than when the 100% DOD for much longer. Of course, if the actual charge equivalent to the relative total capacity: 10% * 1000 = 100,100% * 200 = 200, the latter a full charge and discharge, or better than some, but in front of friends do say that some of the amendments: Under normal case, you should have a reserve battery power is left in accordance with the principle of charging run out of charge again, but if your battery in your first two days can not be expected to persist throughout the day, when they should start on time charge, of course, if you are willing to back the charger to the office again a different matter.
And you need to recharge in order to cope with the anticipated upcoming busy communications will lead to an important event, even though there are a lot of battery power over time, then you just charge ahead, because you are not really lost, "a" sub-charge cycle life , that is, "0.x" times only, and often this x will be very small.
Run out of battery power and then filling the remainder of the principle is not want you to go to the extreme. And long, like charging a widespread view that "as far as possible PDA Pocket PC battery power runs out, it is best to use automatic shutdown." This is really just practice on nickel batteries, The purpose is to avoid the memory effect occurs, unfortunately, it is also spread of lithium batteries on this. It has been since the PDA Pocket PC low battery warning appears, still do not charge to continue to use the example has been used in automatic shutdown. The results in this case, the PDA handheld computer and boot in the subsequent charge had no response, had to give customer service overhaul. In fact, this is because of the battery caused by excessive electrical discharges in low voltage, so that does not have the normal charge and the boot and conditions.
3, for lithium batteries the right way PDA Pocket PC
To sum up, I lithium batteries PDA handheld computer in the use of charging and discharging, the most important tips are:
1, in accordance with standards and procedures, charging time, even the first three have to do so.
2, when there is low power PDA Pocket PC tips, you should try to begin charging a timely manner.
3, lithium batteries do not need to activate the special method, in the PDA handheld computers in the normal use lithium batteries will naturally activated. If you insist on spreading the use of "the three previous 12-hour long activation charge" approach, in fact there will be no effect.
Therefore, all the pursuit of super-long 12-hour rechargeable lithium Inspiron 5150 battery,Inspiron 5160 battery,Inspiron 6000 battery and the integration of PDA handheld computers used in the practice of automatic shutdown, are wrong. If you have previously done in accordance with the wrong argument, please correct in time, perhaps not too late.
Of course, in the PDA handheld computers and chargers to protect themselves and control circuit of good quality cases, the protection of lithium batteries is still quite guaranteed. Therefore, the charge is the focus of understanding of the rules, and in some cases also may make some concessions. For example you find in your Pocket PC PDA the night before bed charge, you can also start charging before going to bed. Crux of the problem, you should know what the right thing, and do not deliberately wrong to do so in accordance with.
How to extend the laptop battery time
1. The screen brightness to reduce. However, power-hungry LCD screen brightness can effectively be extended to reduce the use of time.
2. Open SpeedStep and PowerPlay power-saving features such as. Now the notebook Inspiron 1720 battery,Inspiron 1721 battery processors and graphics chips have lower operating frequency and voltage to extend the use of time functions, open the appropriate option can significantly extend battery life.
3. The use of hard drives and CD-ROM of the spin-down software: such as NERO DriveSpeed, PowerBooster can reduce software such as CD-ROM, hard drive speed, etc. can also be effective in reducing notebook power consumption.
4. Make good use of standby, sleep and other functions. As a long time without a computer, allowing notebook standby or hibernate, saving electricity extended the life of the computer.
Here are some proper use and maintenance of the battery approach.
(1), bought a new fully charged battery at least once a power, and then into electricity, the second charge after official use.
(2), when the notebook computer when the indoor use of AC is best to remove the battery so often in charge state.
(3), charging is best off the laptop, the battery is fully charged, do not unplug the power in the charge half-way.
(4), charging is completed, the battery should be allowed to rest for 30 minutes re-use, this can keep the battery's health.
5, if the long-term non-use batteries Inspiron 6000 battery,Inspiron 630m battery, it will automatically power loss; if the battery state of a long period of no electricity, the general index of more than one week, it will affect its performance. Therefore, even if the battery is temporarily not used, it's best every month or so, once it is fully charged, it is in a state of war. If it does not use the battery for too long, so long as the battery charge and discharge completely three times, the battery will be restored vitality.
6, at the same time the use of AC and battery-run laptop computers, do not remove the battery, or has the potential to damage the battery, the correct way is to first turn off the computer and remove the battery.
Apple and Adobe the escalation of conflict: iPad into the fuse
iPad refused to Flash
While Apple CEO Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) said, iPad will bring about changes in Internet browsing, but the iPad does not support Adobe's Flash technology. The news also Adobe shares fell.
Because Flash is widely used on the Internet, so iPad mean that the product does not support Flash out of the mainstream in this regard. According to Adobe data, 98% of the networked computers are installed Flash Player, and Flash was used in 75% of Internet video and 90% of interactive ad.
In the last month, Apple's internal meeting, Jobs to employees that Flash "is full of Bug", and that in most cases, lead to the collapse of the reasons Mac computers are Flash.
Of this, Adobe has made through the many articles blog articles back. Adobe noted that, iPad ignored Flash, as well as to provide access to the Internet experience for iPad questioned. Adobe also said that have been developed that can be used iPad of Flash. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch (Kevin Lynch), said the only question is "Adobe needs to be Apple's co-operation can the version of the Flash used in iPad, while Adobe is ready."
Apple and Adobe the escalation of conflict
The conflict between Apple and Adobe a long time. Although the two companies is a long-term partners, but Apple's attitude is gradually turning Flash lukewarm. A few years ago, Apple said the iPhone (mobile Internet) will not support Flash. Steve Jobs said at the time, this was mainly due to Flash can not be effectively run on the iPhone. In the iPhone running on, Flash consumes processor resources and not less than when running on the PC.
Adobe acknowledged the problem and said it would resolve the issue. Since then, Adobe has developed a smart phone can run on Flash, except apples, other handset makers have begun to adopt the version of the Flash.
As the iPhone and iPad was the refusal, Adobe has lost a number of growth opportunities. If the user to give up Flash, turned to get Apple to support HTML5 standard, Adobe will face a crisis. Adobe brings Flash did not disclose how much revenue, but pointed out that the software is the company's most important assets.
Some analysts noted that investors will not refuse to Flash on the iPad to make too much reaction to the news, because this issue has yet to affect the performance of Adobe. However, UBS Securities analyst Brent Thill, said: "Wall Street will gradually be aware of this issue."
Because they do not support Flash, iPad will be unable to properly display the site in Flash video and interactive graphics, users will only see one block of white space. iPad will not support the Hulu and other video sites.
Apple's plan to
Apple thinks, Flash is an outdated technology, Web browsers could eventually without installing an external plug-in the case of video. Jobs said that Apple will use the website to provide support HTML5 standard, HTML5's supporters, including Apple and Google.
However, Web developers, said, HTML5 is still under development, has not yet been widely used. Web site developers, CEO of Smashing Ideas, Steve Jackson (Steve Jackson) said: "If there is a large number of user base, we will focus iPad development site. Present our customers, it is not necessary."
Jackson said that, Flash is a web design standards, which in the short term will not change. In order to make your site and games can be iPad a normal use and development staff will develop a separate Web site for the iPad, but this requires additional time and money.
Some critics believe that Apple's refusal to Flash is the App Store in order to better control the development of the application, at least at this stage is. This will enable developers to not be able to iPhone and iPad development of Web-based applications.
Based on historical experience, Apple will stick to their own practice. 10 years ago, Apple abandoned the floppy drive in the iMac, which was aroused great controversy. However, this decision was subsequently proved to be correct.
Ni-MH battery will be policy priorities in support
In the new energy vehicle development strategy in countries and regions all over the world have been based on their assessment of different options, the relevant battery technology research and development and to promote support for taking a different strategy. From the current situation as a whole, Japan and the United States and Europe focused primarily on lithium batteries and fuel cells, but our country as taking into account the resources and technology maturity, in the newly released policy emphasis on promotion of nickel-metal hydride batteries.
"Ni-MH - Lithium-Ion battery - fuel cell," Industrialization Path
In the commonly used three kinds of car batteries, lead acid batteries due to serious environmental pollution has long been out of the mainstream applications; nickel-metal hydride batteries, although the commercialization of the mainstream at present, but the key indicators of laboratory data were lower than lithium batteries, and the basic theory, there is no room for; lithium batteries despite the superior performance, but still can not be guaranteed safety, and the relatively high costs have also hindered its commercial.
Experts predict that the new energy vehicles will be in the "Ni-MH - Lithium-Ion battery - fuel cell" industry-oriented development path. From the development trend and rate, and short-term performance can be realized only nickel-hydrogen batteries, nickel-metal hydride battery technology since the most mature in the next three years, will remain the mainstream of new energy vehicles, followed by nickel-metal hydride battery technology and lithium iron phosphate, hydrogen fuel cell-third of the world, 5-year lithium batteries and will be gradually replaced by fuel cells. Battery giant Panasonic and Sanyo also found that the lithium-ion battery can not be replaced in 2 ~ 3 years, nickel-hydrogen batteries, mainly due to cheaper nickel-hydrogen battery safety, has reached large-scale production. Lithium batteries also need to continue to research topics, such as security, so take time commercial.
According to Japan's Fuji economic analysis, the mainstream nickel-metal hydride batteries will be able to continue until 2011, but after 2011, Li-ion battery will gradually erode the market share of the nickel-metal hydride batteries, the agency predicted in 2009 Ni-MH rechargeable battery-vehicle global market scale than the previous year by 23.7% to ¥ 92,000,000,000, but the 2015 Ni-MH rechargeable battery-vehicle market will fall to ¥ 55,000,000,000.
Ni-MH battery to become the focus of China's current policy support
In our letter to the Department of Public June 25 that the "new energy automobile manufacturing companies and product access management rules", the vehicle according to the new energy vehicles, systems and key assembly technology maturity, degree of perfection of the national and industry standards, and industrial the degree of difference will be divided into initial stage where the development period, three different stages of technology maturity, and give classified management.
In accordance with state regulations, start-products only in small volume production, and only in approved areas, scope, duration and under conditions of model runs, and the operational status of all products for real-time monitoring; development stage product allows for mass production only the approved area, scope, duration and conditions of sale, use, and at least 20% of sales of products running in real-time monitoring; mature products and conventional automotive products, "vehicle manufacturers and product announcement" Management the same way, in the sale and use of the same as with conventional automotive products.
This means that, in China, December 31, 2010, equipped with lithium battery hybrid and electric vehicles will be limited to the sale and use areas, the use of nickel-metal hydride battery hybrid and electric vehicles can be sold and used across the country.
Experts believe that the reason why countries are now the focus from the development of lithium batteries into nickel-metal hydride batteries, the main reason is that nickel-metal hydride battery technology is more mature than the lithium batteries, more abundant mineral resources, the future of new energy vehicles will enable greater access to the commercial phase.
The market demand for nickel-hydrogen batteries to bring 2-3 years of rapid growth in
Nickel-hydrogen battery technology, and industry chain to determine their maturity will be a period of time with the coexistence of lithium batteries, lithium iron phosphate cathode material for lithium batteries makes the emergence of performance and cost advantage has been achieved, but the stability of production capacity deficiencies and the lack of inspection of the actual operation continues to be a part of the new energy discourage automobile manufacturers; In contrast, nickel-hydrogen batteries have gone through years of actual combat, technical and industrial chains are quite perfect, in a short time can be formed on the vehicle's stability and supporting capacity, and therefore can still be a period of time in the new energy vehicles widely applicable.
According to industry estimates, nickel-hydrogen battery market is still expected to get 2-3 years of rapid growth in the next 2-3 years, the "10 City 1000" program, the increasing popularity of hybrid cars and export in overseas markets for nickel and other factors to bring hydrogen-powered battery market demand for strong growth, and when the nickel-metal hydride batteries and lithium batteries are still Nanfenbozhong when the nickel-hydrogen batteries will usher in a short period of rapid growth.
Among them, China has launched a "10 City, 1000" Plan will bring the first batch of nickel hydrogen battery market demand. It is estimated that in the "10 City, 1000" program, about 3200-4000 vehicles, new energy vehicles (including buses and passenger cars) using Chinese-made nickel-hydrogen batteries, within three years, bringing a total of about 3.5-4.4 million kilowatt-hour nickel-hydrogen battery needs.
Taken together, both domestic and export demand weakened after the 2012 nickel-hydrogen batteries will gradually be replaced by lithium batteries.
Keep up the pace of R & D policy
In China's automotive battery production enterprises with a production capacity of nickel-hydrogen batteries accounted for the majority of companies, including Chunlan Group, Ke-li Yuan, the torch high-tech, Hunan Shenzhou, Kane shares, etc., which Chunlan Group is the nickel-metal hydride HEV power battery technology, leading market share in a leading position in the torch high-tech and Hunan Shenzhou has possessed a certain amount of technical base and market position.
As for the lithium battery, most domestic manufacturers do not have the ability to mass production, but the relevant production planning has been implemented, it is expected after 2010 be able to mass production.
Experts believe that, technological advances, China's car prices and the related battery business in addition to promoting the industrialization of nickel-metal hydride batteries, more attention should be put some of the long-term, to devote human resources to carry out power lithium battery research and development, and to maintain the fuel cell technical follow-up, in order to occupy a broader new energy car market ready.
IBM released eight-core Power7 processor
IBM this week unveiled its latest Power7 processors. This processor, adding more cores and improved multi-threading capabilities in order to facilitate the running time of the server require higher improve its performance.
IBM said that, Power7 processor has eight cores, each core can run 4 threads can run 32 threads simultaneously. Power7 the number of processor cores is Power6 four times the number of threads running on Power6 cores more than eight times.
IBMPower systems division general manager Ross Mauri Monday at a news conference in New York, said, Power7 running speed of 3.0GHz to 4.14Ghz. Power7 chips will be configured 4, 6 or 8 cores.
Power7 chips will use 45-nanometer process. IBM has done the memory level of improvement, should be able to make faster Power7 processor to perform tasks.
Mauri said, Power7 system than the old Power6 system performance doubled, but the energy efficiency fourfold. The system will run the AIX operating system, as well as Red Hat and Suse provides Linux.
Power7 chip also uses TurboCore technology that allows users to provide wholesome activities for the speed of the kernel in order to improve performance. This technology can enable eight cores of memory and bandwidth user support four core activities in order to enhance the performance of each core.
IBM also introduced the four Power7 processor-based servers. IBM Power 780 and Power 770 high-end server uses a modular design, a maximum configuration of 64 Power7 cores. IBM Power 755 will support up to 32 Power7 cores. IBM also introduced the Power 750 Express server. Power 750 Express and 755 servers will begin shipping February 19, while the Power 770 and 780 will be shipped March 16.
IBM introduced Power7 processors will provoke a new high-end microprocessor market competition. IBM in this market and the provision of Intel Itanium processors, and the provision of Sparc processors, Sun Microsystems Inc. to compete.
Acer plans to expand its server sales to compete with Dell, Hewlett-Packard
The world's second-largest personal computer retailers and Acer said that this year plans to expand its server business to gain more profits, while competition for business with Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer customers.
Acer President and CEO Gianfranco Lanci (Gianfranco Lanci) 2 Yue 5 interview, said: "Can not Zhizuo for the consumer market, computer makers, to all-round development of the market. This year will see us in the commercial computer field action. "
In the third quarter, Acer launch low-cost Internet access for the consumer market and high-end of the Aspire One Ferrari notebooks, Dell's promotion jumped over the world's second-largest computer maker. Lanci said Acer's server sales accounted for 4% of total sales this year, but its profit margin of up to twice as many other products.
Daiwa analyst Calvin Huang (Calvin Huang), said: "Acer sounds ambitious, if they can successfully carry out the server business, will be very beneficial to its." He will be Acer's stock rating raised to "buy" (Buy) , "Enterprise users will increase, then the development of Acer is equal to have a (personal computer outside of) the second engine."
Acer's share price last year, the Taiwan Stock Exchange rose 128% over the volume-weighted price index issued by (TAIEX) 78% gain. This year, fell 12%, in line with the TAIEX declines.
Lanci said Acer was released in November last year, blade servers and modular servers, and plans to release at the end of this quarter, a full line of servers. This also will help Acer PC customers win more business.
Ferrari Notebook
Acer released in June 2008 low-cost Internet access to this Aspire One, and so doing in the global economic downturn under adverse conditions, to seize market share. Acer Ferrari series notebooks offer up to 2000 U.S. dollars.
Lanci said: "We first develop the consumer market, and then expand the commercial market, this decision is correct. Turn to do the market will be a disaster."
U.S. market research firm IDC 12 monthly report said by the global economic downturn and corporate impact of budget cuts in the third quarter of worldwide server shipments decreased by 17.9% year on year. IBM revenue continued to hold the first place, followed by Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Excluding the global computer server shipments increased by 2.3%, Acer with 14% market share followed by Hewlett-Packard, ranked second.
Server revenue
Lanci said the server's gross profit margin of 15% to 20%. Acer's third-quarter gross margin was 10%.
KGI Securities analyst Angela item (Angela Hsiang), said: "Acer may want the server market in the next few years of rapid growth, they also want a share of them." She will be Acer's rating raised to " outperform "(Outperform). "It will take some time. Because Acer has not done server products, they need strong R & D capabilities."
The world's largest PC supplier HP server revenue last year accounted for 13% of total revenue, server, operating profit sector accounted for 11.3% of total operating profit, accounting for 24% of the total gross margin. The world's third-largest computer retailer, Dell's third-quarter revenue of servers and network sectors accounted for 12% of total revenues. The world's largest retailer, IBM 2005 years will the server personal computer business to Lenovo, which launched its personal computer market.
Expenditures
Analyst Calvin Huang said: "Acer may need to establish a distribution network server, so the start may not have much profit."
Acer's vice president of marketing Jianpiye Romo Biro (Gianpiero Morbello), said in an interview, excluding sponsorship spending will increase by 30% of Acer's marketing budget, to help the server sales. Acer is now the Ferrari F1 race, the Italian soccer team Inter Milan, as well as class sponsor of the Olympic Games.
Lanci said Acer's revenue is expected to grow 15% this year, notebook shipments will exceed 4 million units, an increase of 35% to 40%. Acer will be published this week, a preliminary financial results in 2009, Lanci said that sales in 2008 was essentially flat.
Analysis of the expected net profit last year, Acer 11.8 billion new Taiwan dollars (about 367 million U.S. dollars), an increase of less than 1%. This year net profit is expected to grow to 16.4 billion Taiwan dollars.
The United States District Court accepted the appeal court ruled that Dell class action
United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday, the district court must entertain the sale of defective laptop computers to the Dell case of a class-action lawsuit.
United States District Court in 2008 dismissed the class action lawsuit, and asked to settle disputes through arbitration, but then the plaintiff appeals. Week 5, San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced the ruling rejected the United States District Court continued to hear the case.
Dell has not yet reached for comment.
This case the plaintiff alleged Dell Inspiron notebook computers sold in the cooling system, electrical system, and defective motherboard, which violates California consumer protection laws. They said that these defects result in laptop computers did not warn the case of a sudden shut down, unable to restart, or aging rapidly.
These notebook computer purchase date of July 2004 to January 2005, it is unclear the exact number of affected users.
In Friday's ruling, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge lyles Terrom (Lyle Strom) that local veto is abuse of power, out of considerations of public interest and should allow the the case continues to trial. Strom said that in the consumer's purchase contract to impose an arbitration clause is "unreasonable" because the user may no longer be a separate price of these computers 1200-1500 U.S. dollars a separate claim.
Plaintiffs attorney Sea (Jonathan Selbin), said: "Dell has been very, very tough. We are asking the court to consider the case, which is our primary goal."
United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had referred the case back to district court for further proceedings.
HP EDS to deceive users by 200 million U.S. dollars was ordered to pay interim compensation
British High Court judge Wednesday announced that Hewlett-Packard should be within 14 days of the British Sky Broadcasting Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "BSkyB") to pay 200 million U.S. dollars in temporary compensation. Last month the court ruled that before the acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, EDS sold to BSkyB customer relationship management (CRM) system exists to deceive the user's behavior.
British High Court Judge Vivian Ramsey (Vivian Ramsey), said: "The defendant should be February 17, 2010 Wednesday 4:30 p.m. prior to the plaintiff to pay a 200 million U.S. dollars in compensation." The court held that,HP EDS through the fraudulent misleading won a contract from BSkyB's CRM system. Although EDS is not in the sales process on the system cost and construction time to make misleading, but the EDS system construction of an employee is given time dishonest argument.
EDS responded by saying, is seeking permission to prepare an appeal. Hewlett-Packard spokesman said: "This is actually related to EDS in 2000, when the business legacy. HP's acquisition of EDS in 2008 after the succession of the problem. As the world's largest technology company, Hewlett-Packard through strong corporate governance, as well as the compliance with the highest ethical standards established a good reputation. "
Supreme Court of England will continue to determine the final amount of compensation Hewlett-Packard. Pinsent Masons LLP lawyer David Maikeweien (David Mcllwaine), said: "This means that HP's ultimate losses will be more than 200 million U.S. dollars, the court will not make less than 200 million U.S. dollars compensation for the final decision because it would require BSkyB to return to the Hewlett-Packard partial compensation. "
Maikeweien said that HP faced with this situation would usually make a final decision in court, before the seek reconciliation. However, the British asked HP for a temporary compensation for the Supreme Court's decision to make the reconciliation has become more difficult. If you reach a settlement, HP can batch the payment of compensation, rather than a large one-off payment of compensation.
Many IT service providers pay close attention to the case, because it may lead to the standard sales process is defined as fraud. However, experts believe that the verdict will be limited to an employee found a decrease of such an effect.