Tag archive: production

The innovative Raspberry Pi project has entered the home straight, as production of the first wave of computers has begun. The brainchild of David Braben, best known to many as the co-writer of the epic space-trading game Elite, the idea behind Raspberry Pi is to encourage high school students to learn computer programming, without the school needing a huge budget. As previously reported, there will be two Raspberry Pi models. Model A will cost… Read More

According to the Daily Mail, Foxconn workers are required to sign agreements saying they will not commit suicide. The Chinese manufacturing company, which is responsible for a significant amount of iOS devices, has been tied to may sordid reports of overworked staff, and four years ago an employee committed suicide after an iPhone 4 prototype in his care went missing. He unfortunately was not the only such casualty, and shortly thereafter a… Read More

It's official: Daniel Craig is returning as James Bond in the upcoming, still unnamed, Bond 23. The film will begin shooting toward the end of this year and hit theaters on Nov. 9, 2012, according to MGM and EON, the companies responsible for the film. Production on Bond was resumed in November 2010, and director Sam Mendes confirmed he would still helm the film in early December. It has been a long road for Bond 23. Production on the… Read More

Estimates are that shipments of Blu-ray discs will increase from an estimated 20 millions units in 2008 and to 64 million in 2009, 152 million in 2010 and 279 million by 2011. Verbatim is already firmly in the market with Blu-ray media, and at CES it’s introducing new products that expand its range. The company will offer 2X BD-R Thermal Hub-printable discs, Verbatim 2X and 6X Single-sided Double-layer (DL) BD-R Discs, and Verbatim 25GB BD-R… Read More

Starting in 1995, Samsung went into full TFT production manufacturing 100,000 units that first year followed by 1 million units through 1997. In the year 2000, Samsung had rolled out their 10-millionth panel and buy 2003 they had reached production of 10 million units. In terms of the glass substrate sizes, the first line was 370x470mm. The 7-1 Line in Tangjeong today uses the world's largest mother glass of 1870x2200mm, 24 times… Read More

“The electronics giant's relocation of notebook computer production lines to China is expected to once again trigger controversy about the hollowing out of the domestic manufacturing industry. Major Korean electronics makers have been asserting that they would relocate domestic plants for low-end electronics goods to China but are increasingly repositioning their production facilities for high-end, high value-added information… Read More

“Sony has made clear that it does intend to release any new models for its CLIE PDA line. Production of current models will end in July. Parts and repair service will continue to be available for 6 years from end of production, as outlined in the warranty statement. Specialist telephone support for Clie users will continue for one year. After that, support calls will be handled by VAIO customer service. These plans are normal… Read More

The demand for semiconductors in China has grown significantly in the last five years, as OEMs and other consumers of semiconductors have shifted production to China, however, domestic Chinese production hasn't kept pace, leaving a $20 billion gap in 2003, up from $5.7 billion in 1999. Indeed, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers entitled China's Impact on the Semiconductor Industry, the domestic integrated… Read More

Samsung claims they are the first to mass production of 90nanometer (nm) 512Mb DDR SDRAM on 300mm base wafers. Samsung pioneered nanometer level production technology in 2003 with production of 2GbNAND flash memory in a 90nm process. The 90nm 512Mb DDR SDRAM with voltage rates of 2.5V is available at both 400 and 333MHz. The new device is already being verified by leading chipset companies. The migration from 0.10micron to 90nm boosts… Read More

Apple was set to unveil the rejuvenated iMac at last month's WWDC, and blames the delay on production problems at IBM, which manufactures the chip. Apple expects the G5 shortage to affect sales through the quarter, but Oppenheimer said the company was confident IBM would resolve the issue come September. The problems stem from a switch to 90-nanometer scale production. Supply not meeting demand has been a reoccurring theme at Apple,… Read More

Most Japanese makers originally planned to begin volume production of 16x DVD+RW burners in the middle of next quarter, while BenQ, Lite-On IT and Accesstek planned to begin in July, according to the Taiwanese makers. However, the supply of LDs used for 16x reading/writing is not currently adequate, as average yield rates are still below 30%. In addition, the technical adjustments needed to match 16x DVD+RW burners with 16x DVD+R… Read More

The firm has spent 1 billion yen to build necessary facilities at a local subsidiary, such as clean room facilities. Production of 45- and 55-inch models has already begun, with Chinese marketing to begin as soon as May. Sanyo expects demand not only from households, but also from such businesses as hotels and restaurants. Electrical machinery manufacturers have bolstered rear-projection TV operations, given their status as a relatively… Read More

Japan's largest maker of office equipment said it will build new plants on existing manufacturing sites in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, and in Vietnam, while boosting production lines at a printer factory in Thailand, which is currently running near full capacity. It said the moves would lift its production of ink-jet printers, including multifunction and single-function models, to about 20 million units in 2005. Last year it… Read More

Bachus most recently worked at Capital Entertainment Group, the videogame investment and production company he co-founded with another key member of the original Xbox team, Seamus Blackley, but which closed its operations late last year. He becomes the first key games industry figure to join Infinium, whose flagship product, the Phantom console, has often been dismissed as non-existent “vapourware” or even a hoax by… Read More

Recent price-drops combined with the roll-out of key software titles for the machine in all three major markets have given the Cube new life in the run up to Christmas, and the production lines which had been silent since the company called a moratorium on building new hardware units at the start of the year have now rolled back into action. When Nintendo halted production of the Cube, many sources assumed the worst for the console;… Read More