New year, new product, new weather

The year 2008 has quietly passed away, and the word "extraordinary" may not reflect the uniqueness of the year 2008. In the same 365 days around the sun for a week, we were shocked much more than ever before: the southern snow disaster, the Wenchuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, the launch of Shen Qi, the toxic milk, and the financial storm ..., All kinds of sweet and sour tastes are bound to be printed in the memory of everyone. Although the financial crisis has spread all over the world and affected the consumption capacity of the whole world, it has not hindered the continuous progress and innovation of science and technology. In the 2008 science and technology news, there are constantly new products that can stimulate our eyes.

 

Let's take a look at the serial NAND Flash technology released by Micron Technology Co., Ltd., which enables embedded application products to easily upgrade storage capacity. With the increasing functionality of the operating system, the volume of multimedia data stored by users is growing, and the era of GB storage will soon come. Micron serial nand flash memory has a minimum chip density of 1 GB, processing speed of 2.64 Mb/s, and writing speed is faster than nor flash memory. In addition to the current storage capacity of the serial nor flash, the customer can easily expand the storage capacity with high cost effectiveness.

 

With the arrival of 2009, analysts have predicted the development trend of the global chip market. One prediction is that Intel's Atom processor will be applied to more devices than the netbook. I believe in this. In today's notebook field, Intel occupies the vast majority of the market and does not resist AMD and other competitors. To make atom more deeply rooted, Intel has launched the moblin platform to simplify development. Despite some opposition from Microsoft and Google, Intel is very low-profile when pushing moblin, but it cannot conceal the technical advantages of moblin. While paying attention to Android, we should not ignore the existence of moblin. It is estimated that more atom + moblin-based products will be available in 2009.

 

In the field of embedded systems, it is hard to say that intel is the biggest competitor of arm, but the two giants have a lot of complaints. At the Adobe 2008 Max conference, Adobe and arm announced a Technical Cooperation Agreement. The two companies optimized Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR technology to apply them to ARM-based products. This indicates that arm is very concerned about intel's doubts. With the success of the iPhone, manufacturers have begun to notice the importance of user experience. Arm has far-reaching significance. The optimized cortex-A series processor will become the best platform at this stage.