IDC flat market outlook: the commercial market growth remains robust

December 18 morning news, big-screen phones are now so good, but also to the Tablet PC to do? Even Apple’s iPad sales are beginning to fell (IDC expects iPad sales fell 12.7 percent), the tablet market there hope?

In the recently held “2014 Intel commercial flatbed media communication”, the assistant vice president of IDC China industry research and consulting services, said Wu Lianfeng, the overall global tablet market, especially flat consumption growth slowed sharply indeed, in the past few years at every turn double drop into the single digits, but the decline in the market is not all, commercial flat growth is still very strong.

In Wu Lianfeng seems flat to maintain strong growth in the commercial core of three reasons:

- From a macro perspective, cloud computing, big data, mobile, social, and the third among the mobile platform and the perception that the future will be extended to the endless intelligent edge. So with the mobile-related products and services with smart phones, tablet-related will have a good future growth.

Two smart phones for business solutions have a lot of deficiencies. (AD7401)”Mobile phone for business, then the screen is too small; secondly it is safe, especially for time industrial applications, security is still relatively poor; the third is the performance of the phone is still worse than the flat; Fourth, compatibility, some office software or enterprise class application compatibility will be relatively poor. ”

Third, the Tablet PC in the business which will have a lot of advantages.(surt5000xlt) From the user’s point of view, close to half of the CIO believes big screen to facilitate business processes; more on performance flat enough to support commercial office, if it is, then the x86 architecture, with existing business applications will be good overall compatibility; tablet can be directly industry custom made, and these are the phone difficult to do.

Wu lianfeng In his speech, also described IDC for the future development trend of commercial flat-panel market.

First, the style will be personalized, will be more numerous, the entire tablet style will be more; the second, from the operating system, the future is in the three pillars of the situation; and third, the next tablet peripheral devices will become more and more abundant; fourth, industry solutions will be stimulated; fifth, security management will become increasingly important; sixth, commercial pricing model innovation.

Infineon: Arduino Shields for RGB lighting applications and motor controllers

The Infineon RGB LED Lighting Shield for Arduino is equipped with the microcontroller XMC1202 that has a Brightness Color Control Unit (BCCU) for the LED lighting control. The Shield for high current DC motor controllers for Arduino uses the high current half-bridge driver NovalithIC BTN8982TA.

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The RGB LED Lighting Shield with XMC1202

The module for RGB LED lighting enables the control of different LED light sources. It has three independent output channels for flicker control of multi-colored LEDs. The Shield is based on the microcontrollers XMC1202 from the XMC1200 series. This series provides, inter alia, the complete dimming control and flicker-free light over all Dimmungsstufen. Expand the shield can be a DMX communication interface for integration with lighting and audio systems. Also possible is the combination with a 24 GHz radar sensor, for example for motion detection.

DC Motor Control Shield with BTN8982TA

This Shield is half-bridge and full-bridge designs can be evaluated. It can drive two DC motors unidirectional or bidirectional DC motor. Fitted is the shield with two fully integrated high current half-bridge drivers for motor control of the type NovalithIC BTN8982TA. This combines three integrated circuits in a single package: two power ICs (a P-channel high-side MOSFET and an N-channel low-side MOSFET) and an integrated driver IC with a logic circuit for the power control and their monitoring. Other features include diagnostic functions such as current measurement, adjustability of the slew rate, dead-time generation and protection functions at overtemperature, undervoltage, overcurrent and short circuit.

The Novalith IC BTN8982TA is ideal for secure high-current PWM motor drives, which should be as small as possible and supports high-frequency pulse width modulation, for example, up to 30 kHz. Brushed DC motors can be operated up to 250 W continuous power (eg 12 V / 20 A). The current limitation of BTN8982TA can peak currents up to 55 A.

Until the end of January 2015, the two Shields Farnell Newark element14 and element14 are to relate. Then the two Arduino Shields will also be available by Infineon and its distributors.

SEMI: the world’s major regions of the semiconductor equipment spending contrast

Advanced semiconductor giant to increase its investment process, Intel, Samsung, TSMC (2330) three strong capital spending continues to increase in the density of semiconductor devices, TSMC capital spending this year has been the point of view of billions of dollars more foreign investment is estimated TSMC capital spending next year will skyrocketed to $ 12 billion.

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SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International Association) has issued the report pointed out that next year the global semiconductor manufacturing equipment market will continue to grow by 15.2 percent year came to $ 44 billion. The Taiwan semiconductor equipment spending, will also be five consecutive years ranked highest in the world.

SEMI estimates that this year the global semiconductor equipment market will reach $ 38 billion, representing a growth of 19.3 percent last year. Where all kinds of wafer fabrication equipment machine is still the highest revenue contribution blocks. SEMI estimates, this year’s wafer fabrication machine market size will grow by 17.8 percent, reaching $ 29.9 billion; packaging equipment market is forecast to increase by 30.6%, amounting to $ 3,000,000,000; semiconductor test equipment market is expected to grow 26.5% this year to $ 3.4 billion dollar; other product categories (including fab equipment, mask and wafer manufacturing equipment, etc.), this year the market is estimated by 14.8%.

In terms of regional markets distinction this year in Taiwan, South Korea and North America is still the largest semiconductor equipment capital spending areas. According to SEMI estimates that semiconductor equipment sales to Taiwan next year is still forecast to grow 28.1 percent to reach $ 12.3 billion, for five consecutive years ranked the world’s largest market.

Caoshi Wong, president of SEMI Taiwan, said Taiwan’s investment in semiconductor foundry, packaging and testing memory and drive manufacturers, continued steady growth, will further strengthen Taiwan’s leading position in the global semiconductor industry.

Five forecast 2015 DRAM industry trends

2014 is the DRAM industry is quite profitable harvest year. Benefit from the global smart phone continued selling tier DRAM makers have switched were acting memory; TrendForce’s memory storage career at DRAMeXchange estimates that 2014 action-type memory DRAM will account for 36% of overall output, 2015 a chance to break 40 percent mark.

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DRAMeXchange research associate Zuo Guo Rong said that, thanks to robust demand action type memory, thanks to the standard output relative reduction in memory, but let module prices has remained at high level, the 2014 average price of about $ 32 4GB modules, standard memory body average gross margin of 40%. Each DRAM makers toward comprehensive profit status, oligopoly market structure and market changes in the demand side will affect the future development of the DRAM industry in 2015.

DRAMeXchange forecast 2015 five DRAM industry market trends as follows:

(1) DRAM slowdown but the plants begin to profit as a priority

DRAM industry into oligopoly market structure, the only three DRAM makers begin to profit-oriented as a priority, carefully controlled to adjust the output and product categories, together with the global smart phone continues to maintain high growth, also allows capacity to action formula memory, squeezed into the output standard memory, so the standard memory market prices remain high water level, has become a cash cow DRAM factory, so the profit to produce dazzling aspects transcripts. DRAMeXchange DRAM estimated 2015 output value will reach $ 54.1 billion, the annual growth of 16% profit growth for the market to stabilize the year.

(2) Samsung and SK Hynix Jie new plant completed, depending on market demand dynamically adjust production capacity

Samsung (Samsung) and SK Hynix (Hynix) coincidentally announced in 2014 to expand the new plant in the news, capacity competition resurgence of rumors flying around, but DRAMeXchange pointed out that, in fact, Samsung, while the expansion of Line17′s, Line16 DRAM production capacity has quietly reduced and return NAND Division to use. And SK Hynix M14 is expected to vote next year in the fourth quarter only a small amount of pieces, large-scale investment pieces will only emerge in 2016.

Overall, DRAMeXchange that because the market demand will continue to grow, but rather to build for the future factory needs, just cast film output is planned, and the subsequent price decline quarter by quarter, although it will, but as long as the process turn into a continuous basis, DRAM makers are still able to maintain profitability in the current water level.

(3) action type memory leapt mainstream, LPDDR4 coming next year

2014 smart phone into the parity of the many low-cost high-regulation models in the global market to conquer new territories, so that emerging market set off a wave of replacement smart phones. Zuo Guo Rong said that in the smart phone market constantly expanding, 2015 action-type memory is also close to 40% market share of the global market, accounting for 27% compared to standard memory, action-type memory has risen to global DRAM market mainstream products.

On the other hand, the action type of memory do observed in 2015 is still the mainstream specifications LPDDR3, output amounted to more than 60%, while the first application of the new specifications LPDDR4 flagship smartphone models in the next year, regardless of the power saving mechanism with the clock surpassed LPDDR3, expected in 2015 will reach 15% market share.

(4) 20nm become the main battlefield, but the increase in capital spending will make the process turn into slowing down

Korean series 25nm process DRAM plant in the second half of 2014 has entered the mature stage, regardless of the size of yield and cast films have become the mainstream DRAM specifications. As for the 20nm process, Samsung has entered the validation phase, SK Hynix is expected to enter the market in the second start of the season next year; in contrast, Micron (Micron) is currently planning only Inotera have 20nm process of standard memory, turn into progress compared with the two Korean factory behind the goal by the end of 2015 to reach 80K cast films.

DRAMeXchange said that, due to enter the 20nm process needs more equipment to produce, implies the need for more capital spending, however, profit-oriented, the proportion of the plants turn into 20nm process will be slowed down.

(5) by the end of 2015 with DDR4 server market share is expected to exceed 50% mark

In the full cooperation of Intel (Intel) and a strong leading DRAM factory, DDR4 memory will be the first cut in the server field. Guo Rong Zuo said server memory in addition to stability requirements, but more recently inked both low voltage and speed. According to JEDEC specification, DDR4 voltage only 1.2V, the future rate can be as high 3200Mhz. The price is also working with the server part with DDR3 gradually close, DRAMeXchange expected DDR4 fastest at the end of 2015 to replace DDR3, memory became mainstream server market.

Marvell announced two 64 five-mode 4G smartphone chips

Recently, Marvell has released two ARM Cortex A53 equipped with 64-bit CPU architecture 5 die 4G LTE SoC, for high-performance smart phones and tablet PC market. Both products are PXA1908 and PXA1936.

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According to vice president of global MARVELL, Lee, managing director of China Chunchao perform introduction, PXA1936 for 8-core products, used in all eight core ARM Cortex A53, clock frequency 1.5GHz (PXA1936 Pro frequency of 1.8GHz), provides advanced graphics and security function, high-performance image processing capabilities, support for 13 million to 16 million pixels pixels camera, support for 1080p video decoding and display, SensorHub function and improve usability.

PXA1908 four core products, the clock frequency of 1.2GHz (PXA1908 Pro frequency of 1.5GHz), enhanced image processing capabilities, support for 800-megapixel camera, support 720 display, using advanced power management, with a mature DSDS 5-mode modem software.

PXA1908 and PXA1936 fully compatible with the software, so that the OEM and ODM manufacturers to quickly and seamlessly launch a high-performance mobile phone or tablet. Both products support the current popular wireless protocols to meet TD-LTE, FDD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA and GSM wireless communications technology.

Following Apple A7 processor on the market more and more mobile phone chip makers began publishing 64 products, such as Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 and 615, 808 and 810 Xiaolong, MediaTek MT6732 and 6752, Samsung Exynos5433. MARVELL now also released 64 products. The second half of 2015 is expected to 64 smart phones is expected to appear in large numbers on the market.

Truly portable Power Plan V: Use a battery to charge the phone

Your phone battery died, but no mobile power how to do? Plan V portable charger can charge the phone directly with ordinary 9-volt batteries.

It is reported that the battery problem always plagued all smart phone users, when we bring in the full enjoyment of the smartphone game, work and social benefits, such as when the phone is always to face the lack of electricity around to look for the power supply. And more and more of the mobile power products have appeared on the market, has become a very popular mobile phone accessories field. Today we bring is a portable charger called Plan V, it can make the case that you do not have to move at the same time the power of the battery died, ordinary batteries that can charge the phone.

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Plan V usually do when you can be hung on a keychain, weighs only 7 grams, which itself does not store electricity, but by 9 volt batteries available in the market for mobile phone charging. Let the Plan V role to play, you have to like it first launched U disk connected to the phone, and then come up with 1-2 9-volt battery mounted on the connection point, so start charging the phone. It is not a savior, but let the phone to get a few hours of talk time and that there is no problem.

Plan V of Flintu development company said a 9V battery provides enough power for 4 hours talk Samsung Galaxy S5 or iPhone 5, in addition to note is that, Plan V being only micro-USB version, and supports the iPhone version will have to use the Lightning wait until the target amount was set before committing to the development.