Stratasys plans to buy MakerBot, the world's two big 3D print giants strong alliances

Stratasys plans to buy MakerBot, the world's two big 3D print giants strong alliances

Global 3D Printing and manufacturing leader Stratasys Ltd. and desktop 3D print leader MakerBot signed a final merger agreement today and announced that MakerBot will merge with Stratasys subsidiary in the form of a swap deal.

Founded in 2009, MakerBot developed the desktop 3D printing market, building a powerful 3D printer customer base by enhancing the popularity of 3D printers. Since 2009, the company has sold more than 22,000 3D printers. Over the past nine months, the MakerBot Replicator 2 desktop 3D printer has sold 11,000 units.

Interpretation: 3D printing prospects are very good, but in the short term because of technical, material and cost reasons difficult to commercialize, 3D printing technology for the time being used for experiments, large-scale applications still need time. And the user community is not the same, this will be a challenge to the upstream manufacturer's product positioning.

At present, there are two 3D printer manufacturing giants, respectively Stratasys and 3DSystems, are listed in the United States Nasdaq, 2011-year operating income of 170 million U.S. dollars and 290 million U.S. dollars respectively, 2012 share prices were doubled by twice and 3 times times. Stratasys acquisition of MakerBot's target or the market for desktop 3D printers, for individual user groups.

The world's first 3D print car Urbee2 an accepted order

When 3D printing is changing the manufacturing process, it's time to change the way cars are made. The world's first 3D print car, this time is not a toy, but really can drive up the road car.

Urbee 2 is a hybrid of a tricycle, with all its components 3D printed. It has three wheels, two seats, flat oblong shape looks small and lovely, very futuristic. As the world's first 3D print car, Urbee 2 of the spare parts only about 50, and a standard design of the car to be assembled from hundreds of components. Urbee 2 of the body is 3D printing into one, and most of the other components are printed separately, and then filled into the body, where the engine and chassis is still metal, using traditional crafts made.

It is understood that the new Urbee3d car parts are KOR ecologic and redeye on demand cooperation production, the whole process takes 2,500 hours. Its project sponsor Jim claims that if the money is in place, it will take a year to make the Urbee body and the full use of three-dimensional CAD design, a year of time to print and build cars, 2015 hope to achieve mass production. Another source said that it had received more than 10 orders.

Explanation: The car is the product of the brainstorming of Jim Kor and his KOR Ecologic team, who have been focusing on the future of 3D transportation. Urbee's prototype uses the ASB plastic "molten Deposition Modeling" (fuseddepositionmodelling) method. The vehicle consists of a large block and many small pieces. According to Thewire, 544 kg of vehicles cost about 2,500 hours to print, and the prototype cost about 50,000 dollars. Perhaps 3D printing technology can really achieve "the least energy consumption of the farthest distance, the production, use, recovery process of pollution to the lowest, as far as possible with the automobile origin near the raw materials to produce cars" this beautiful dream.

Italian-French semiconductor and Rambus signed a comprehensive agreement

Across multiple electronic applications, the world's leading semiconductor supplier, the Rambus Semiconductor, has announced a comprehensive agreement with the company to cover Fd-soi product design, data security, memory and interface technologies, and to expand existing licensing boundaries between two companies to address all pending claims, So that two companies can seek more cooperation opportunities.

By signing the comprehensive agreement, Rambus has the right to use the design environment of the silicon (Fd-soi) process on the fully depleted insulator of the Italian-French semiconductor. Thus Rambus's future memory and interface solutions will benefit from the small size and low-power advantages of the 28 nm and the following nodes Fd-soi.

The Italian-French semiconductor obtains the authorization agreement from the Rambus's Encryption technology Research Department (CRI), allowing the Italian-French semiconductor to deploy the differential power analysis (DPA) defense countermeasures and Cryptofirewall kernel security technology to more products. DPA is a form of attack by monitoring the power fluctuations of a target object and then using statistical methods to calculate the key and other secrets. DPA defense strategy can effectively protect the user's key, including for banks, identity, pay-TV, video games, smart phones, e-government and other applications of the key.

The core of Cryptofirewall firewall is a complete module of security function developed by CRI, which is used to guard against various attacks and data tampering means.

Interpretation: Over the years, the Italian-French semiconductor has always been in the security microcontroller use DPA defense countermeasures, in the field of data security leading level. By signing this mutually beneficial comprehensive agreement, Rambus's product technology will be widely used to improve the security of the customer's digital system. The new licensing protocol allows the Italian-French semiconductor to further enhance the security performance of its advanced set-top box chips and multimedia (including pay-TV) gateways.

TI's latest NFC help simplifies Internet wireless settings

TI announces the introduction of the dynamic NFC transponder rf430cl330h hardware, the implementation of convenient Low-cost wireless settings, synchronized with the TI-oriented trf79xx NFC transceiver series of the standard NFC library--nfclink software, which simplifies the development of NFC based on the TI embedded processor. This will further provide the most recent field communication (NFC) innovation for a wide range of TI solutions, making it easier and cheaper to start NFC development.

The latest dynamic NFC responder interface is rf430cl330h Low-cost, providing a secure, simplified Bluetooth (Bluetooth) and Wi-Fi connection for products such as printers, speakers, headphones, remote controls, and wireless keyboards, mice, switches, and sensors. It is the only one by one dedicated NFC link switching and service interface features of the design of the dynamic NFC tag device, support host diagnostics and software upgrades.

Interpretation: NFC has brilliant prospects, many upstream vendors have launched their own NFC products, large handset manufacturers, such as Nokia, Samsung (Google), the new Motion (RIM), LG and ZTE, also launched a large number of NFC-enabled products. In 2015, manufacturers will deliver about 550 million NFC handsets, according to research firm IHS Isuppli. NFC technology, like Wi-Fi, is quickly adopted and becomes a trend. Wi-Fi (device) initially soared from 1% to 10%, and NFC phones are not very popular now, even Apple did not carry, it will be a huge market.

The first meeting of the Standards and regulations Coordination Group of electric vehicles

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Department of Industrial and Informatization in Changchun, the Ministry of equipment Industry has convened an electric vehicle international standard regulations for the formulation and coordination of the first plenary meeting since the establishment of the Working Group, the meeting informed the Vehicle Regulatory Coordination Forum (WP29) under the framework of electric vehicle safety, electric This paper studies the framework and main technical issues of the global technical regulation of electric vehicle safety, the next major work of the China Working Group, and discusses the formulation of the reference guide for electric vehicles and environmental regulations, as well as suggestions for the future development of relevant regulations. The meeting discussed China's hosting of an international conference on electric Vehicle Safety, electric vehicles and the environment in October this year.

Interpretation: Electric vehicle standards are not uniform, has been criticized, the unification of standards will effectively promote industrial development.

A major breakthrough in the technology of lithium-ion power battery for vehicle

Science and Technology website June 25 reported that the "Twelve-Five" National 863 program support, "High energy lithium ion battery systems and battery technology development" project made significant progress. The project aims to develop a high energy lithium ion battery for lithium iron phosphate anode material, and has carried out research on the design technology of raw material and battery monomer of lithium ion battery.

Interpretation: Li-ion battery technology breakthrough will be the range, power battery stability and safety promotion are helpful, is expected to drive the development of domestic electric vehicles.

The market for disaster preparedness storage is over billion

At present, China's financial industry IT application has already entered the era of concentration, but in data and business system backup, most of the financial institutions are generally weak, especially small and medium-sized financial institutions. and financial industry is related to the livelihood of the society, is the cornerstone of social operation to ensure that financial institutions business continuity, reliability is imminent.

Analysis: Some analysts pointed out that the domestic tens of billions of dollars of disaster backup storage market will usher in a rapid development period.

Micro-handy platform to open soon

Tencent recently announced that it will have 300 million users of micro-credit products to create a mobile gaming platform, which means that a large number of hand tour companies will enjoy Tencent's "user dividend", the entire hand tour industry is likely to the existing high-speed growth based on the outbreak of growth. Industry is expected, 2015 China hand Tour market size will reach 24 billion yuan.

Interpretation: Such a broad market prospects, to the micro-letter currently has 300 million users, micro-letter as a mobile gaming platform for the launch of the moment, will give Tencent to bring hand-travel in the field of high income channels, of course, will also give the hands of the company to bring unprecedented opportunities and challenges.

Energy efficiency of electric motor improves billions of markets to be developed

Ministry of Industry and Quality Inspection Bureau recently issued the "National Motor Energy Efficiency Improvement Program (2013-2015)" to promote the development and application of high efficiency motor, promote the motor industry upgrade, improve the efficiency of the motor overall. According to the objectives of the plan, through the upgrading of motor products, the 2015 year is expected to achieve electricity saving 80 billion-kilowatt, the equivalent of a new Three Gorges project.

Combined calculation, the next 3 years to promote the cumulative efficiency of motor 170 million kw and the implementation of motor system energy-saving technical renovation 100 Million-kilowatt, according to the estimate, high efficiency motor and related equipment demand close to hundreds of billions of dollars. With the promotion of energy efficiency plan, the market demand of high efficiency motor will be gradually released, and increase yearly.

Interpretation: Power consumption has always been the focus of industry attention, the future of industrial control industry power requirements will be put on a new agenda.

The first eye-tracking super, this summer.

According to foreign media recently reported that Tobii Marvell and Synaptics two companies will jointly build a built-in eye tracking technology and gaze interactive software of the ultra-polar prototype machine.

It is reported that this ultra-extreme will provide a tobii eye tracking solution, that is, Tobii gaze preview. The technology will be added to future laptops with Synaptics's Forcepad trackpad. The prototype will not be available for sale, but media and industry partners will be able to preview the device between summer and autumn this year.

Interpretation: Infrared technology, human eye recognition technology these touch sensing technology will be another bright spot for future portable smart devices.