According to an IDC survey, 645 million smartphones, 225 million notebooks and 105 million tablets are expected to be shipped in 2012 and, from 2012 to 2015, the compound annual growth rates (CAGR) of smartphones, notebooks and tablets are expected to be 17%, 13% and 20%, reflecting a strong demand for such consumer electronics.
Memory applications are omnipresent in today's digitalized information society, In particular, non-volatile memories (NVM) featuring durability, high intensity and high speed, lightweight, power efficiency, and non-volatile storage, are widely used in USB, notebooks, netbooks, tablets, cell phones, HD video and MP3 players, pen recorders, electronic pets, wearable gadgets, and digital/video...
Twenty years ago, technological innovations were driven by demand from large companies, governments and the military. Today, the world is led by consumerism, and meeting consumers' needs has become the reason for all innovations.
Mobile devices nowadays offer more and more functions with screen sizes bigger than ever. However, the increased interactivity is challenged by the limit of battery life. In addition, people need to link their mobile devices to large LCD TVs to display their proposal, diagrams, video conference and games.
As the trends for cloud computing and mobility intensify, online video streaming often experiences serious lags. Now consumers are asking for flash storage devices of larger capacity and faster performance...
The first generation Wi-Fi launched 15 years ago brought forth wireless LAN (WLAN) applications, and the newer Wi-Fi standards that ensued have been providing faster transmission to notebooks, smartphones, and tablets. Over the past few years, Wi-Fi has even become available to consumer electronics and peripherals.
The IT industry is becoming more mobile as cloud services and mobile computing are increasingly prevalent, while there is a demand for mobile device projection on screens of different sizes anytime and anywhere to enable presentations and video playing. This will be a requirement for any new mobile device.
