Tablet Technology

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(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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