Lex Computech endeavors to provide integrated and intelligent platform to meet customer's extensively application purposes. The new NI525A is also based on this concept.In the past, customers were restricted to purchase massive devices to form a single application purpose, which was a complicated, inconvenient and budget-wasting task.Recently, Lex has successfully developed a platform that integrates two most widely applied functions in the surveillance industry - the PoE and NVR solutions. It is an all-in-one system with integration of many useful functions for customers to break away from the past.NI525A is an intelligent 4-port 802.3af PoE switch solution with latest Intel D525 Atom Dual Core 1.8GHz processor. It has a maximum of 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM socket with three Giga LAN, two SATA ports, two Serial ports, eight USB, on board DC-IN +48V and watch dog timer & digital input/output with various optional choices like LVDS and touch screen function, which made NI525A more flexible and functional. It also has a SIM card socket providing 3G wireless capabilities for car PC or any other mobile application.For a system running 24/7 with overheating concern, an excellent heat-dissipation chassis is preferable. Lex's Twister, a whole aluminum- made chassis, is the best choice for NI525A.PC-Based all-in-one PoE NVR Server-NI525APhoto: CompanyLex Computech endeavor to provide integrated and intelligent platformPhoto: Company

According to the findings from a survey cited at Microsoft's smart cloud platform and application development symposium, nearly 80% of computer users spend 50% of their time on web browsing when using computers, and 20% of the 50% spend more than 80% of their time on web browsing. It is obvious that browsers have become an overwhelmingly important application that is heavily relied on, especially when various mobile computing devices and smart cloud services are increasingly prevalent.According to Sam Chang, program manager, Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem, Microsoft Taiwan, such a trend has prompted Microsoft's launch of Internet Explorer 9.0 (IE 9.0), which is redesigned to cater to various user behaviors resulting from the use of existing and future cloud services and mobile devices to provide the best web-browsing experience. "IE 9.0 has a more streamlined interface to do without too many dialog boxes," said Chang. "As a result, it can rapidly access the desirable web pages and is an ideal platform for mobile devices."Microsoft used to add many new functions when designing browsers, but this makes the command bar too large and web contents are therefore reduced although the design was intended to facilitate rapid operation. "The new IE 9.0 is now content-oriented to readjust what is presented by the browser, which shows web contents just in one glance," said Chang. "Browsing can easily focus on web contents to save the time required for repeated drag and scroll in the past."Moreover, in order to accelerate web browsing, IE 9.0 provides some new functions such as pinned sites, new tab page, and address bar search. "Frequently used web addresses saved in My Favorite are inconvenient for mobile device users because they have to scroll down the tree-type directory in order to access a website after locating the site address," said Chang. With the feature of pinned sites of IE 9.0, any webpage of a website can be directly dragged to the taskbar of Windows 7 and pinned there to be shown as a thumbnail by default or separately designed. Clicking on the thumbnail when revisiting the website will directly access the pinned webpage to provide a web-browsing experience more similar to accessing a general application.The redesigned new tab page is in the browser main page to present the thumbnails of most frequently browsed sites, whose major colors and frequencies of being browsed are also indicated to facilitate rapid identification and access. "These sites can be concealed or removed when desired," said Chang. Moreover, the address bar search function will be activated when a set of keywords or even an incomplete web address is inputted, and the search engine designated by IE 9.0 will easily locate the desired URL to accelerate operation.IE 9.0 has also factored in the small form factor, light weight, and power efficiency that are considered important for nowadays handheld devices. "The component specs of handheld devices tend to be lower than PCs because of the limited space of such devices and cost considerations," said Chang. "As a result, the performance of handhelds is lower than PCs." To address this issue, IE 9.0 not only supports multi-core processing but also provides GPU functionality to the jobs requiring a great deal of graphic computing, such as online gaming and audio-video processing. Moreover, its JavaScript engine enables the best DOM/JavaScript integration for overall computing speed enhancement and a web experience that is faster and more realistic."IE 9.0 supports the W3C's latest international standard for web pages, HTML 5," said Chang. Based on the standard, the browser is capable of playing multimedia and video, and only a few program codes to be developed will be able to create multimedia-playing web pages to do without third-party media players. This effectively addresses many web development issues, such as whether QuickTime is installed and no iPad support for Flash. "IE 9.0 makes web development much easier than the past," he stressed.Sam Chang, program manager, Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem, Microsoft TaiwanPhoto: Digitimes

According to Sam Chang, program manager, Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem, Microsoft Taiwan, in addition to business information systems, information systems for consumers and social media that provide information sharing are beginning to provide cloud services enabling cross-device and platform Internet access anytime and anywhere. "New generation applications should break the limits of traditional PCs by integrating a variety of web experience for everyone to create a personalized cloud operation environment," said Chang.In order to achieve this objective, Microsoft has integrated Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, and Windows Live to help consumers develop their best personalized cloud platforms. "Windows 7-based devices, be they PCs, smartphones, Windows Phone, or even iPhone, in conjunction with Internet Explorer 9 and various cloud applications of Windows Live help create the coolest and immediate sharing with friends online," said Chang.�@At present, Windows Live provides not only Hotmail and SkyDrive of 25GB but also Windows Live Essentials, such as Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mesh, Writer, Bing Bar, and Silverlight, which are all readily available online. "Windows Live is definitely the first ever platform in the world that realizes personal cloud computing," stressed Chang.Windows Live supports different mobile devices as its applications run on Windows Phone, iPhone, and other smartphones in addition to desktops, notebooks, and netbooks to update Facebook, access Hotmail and PIXNET, upload videos, etc, providing more mobile services that are more convenient to enrich social life as personal information can be simultaneously integrated and updated. "In particular, Windows Live is free and its application services are available online anytime," said Chang."Windows Live services and tools help easily create and modify text, graphic, and audio video files and stay in touched with friends," said Chang. "Sharing of newly created or modified files can be immediately completed." For example, Windows Live Photo Gallery provides face recognition and tagging to facilitate photo organization as well as red eye, out of focus, and hue error fixing and brightness compensation. It can even extract the elements from different photo to create composite photos. "With Windows Live Photo Gallery, we can combine the photos of a same scene taken from different angles into a panorama photo and Windows Live Photo Gallery is able to automatically merge the overlap between two photos to make the panorama effect look natural," he said.Modified photos or audio video files can be uploaded by Photo Gallery to SkyDrive and saved there or publicized on Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc for sharing. "The photos and videos to be shared can also be attached to emails and sent to friend," added Chang. Either way is very convenient.When a same file needs to be processed on different PCs or the information on SkyDrive is accessed or modified, Windows Live Mesh 2011 is available for synchronization between multiple PCs or between PCs and SkyDrive. "The system provide automated comparison to have the same files in PCs and the cloud synchronized and updated to ensure file consistency and to share the latest documents with others," said Chang. Moreover, Live Mesh is able to remotely control other PCs for easy sharing of IT resources and completing intended jobs.Windows Live also has considerable integration with social media. For example, Windows Live Messenger receives text, graphic and audio video inputs as well as hyperlinks, which are simultaneously shown by the social media, such as Facebook, integrated with Messenger. Friends' updates on Facebook are also immediately shown by Messenger to enable closer interpersonal interaction beyond online chatting.According to Chang, increased bandwidths multiply information traffic and make the types of sharing between people more diverse, while the functions provided by Windows Live enable information sharing in the cloud to do without complicated technology requirements as Windows Live applications are readily available and no further programming is required. As a result, personalized cloud environments are a reality to provide enjoyment of new lifestyles.Sam Chang, program manager, Windows Planning and PC Ecosystem, Microsoft TaiwanPhoto: Digitimes

Trubbach (Switzerland), February 22, 2011 – Oerlikon Solar announced an order from Dong Xu Ltd, one of China's well-known photoelectric glass manufacturers. The order consists of multiple Oerlikon Solar KAI equipment which operates the key process of coating thin film silicon. With Dong Xu's order, Oerlikon Solar is further increasing its customer base in China. The KAI equipment will be utilized as the core absorber technology for Dong Xu's initial thin film silicon production line and will form the central part in their thin film silicon production line. The KAI is a fully automated PECVD system (plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition) for the industrial mass production of large-area 1.4 m2 solar modules. Designed for the deposition of amorphous and microcrystalline photovoltaic absorption layers, this system forms the central part of Oerlikon's field-proven production line. High throughput and yield at low cost are accomplished by the unique batch design and the patented Plasma BoxR. With its leading technology, Oerlikon generally offers a highly competitive solution for the production of thin film silicon solar modules which is truly clean, using only non-toxic material, advantageous under real life conditions, and environmental friendly due to a very short energy payback time. "Both parties have thus laid the grounds for a promising partnership for the planned future expansion of the customer's manufacturing capacity of thin film silicon solar modules," said Helmut Frankenberger, CEO of Oerlikon Solar.

According to Youwei Tsai, software development manager of Microsoft's Software and Services Excellence Center, while tablet PCs and various other mobile computing devices are becoming increasingly prevalent, the role of endpoints in a cloud computing environment is becoming increasingly important because more and more computing applications will be implemented by endpoints. That is why Microsoft selects Windows 7 instead of Windows CE or the highly regarded Windows Phone 7 as the operating system for tablets. "Tablets in nature are more similar to PCs than smartphones," said Tsai. "Therefore, the same operating system for PC should be used in order to provide a consistent user experience."In general, tablets are primarily used for emailing, game playing, music listening and film watching, photo viewing, reading, shopping, web browsing in addition to accessing applications and files. Windows 7 not only provides many applications for such purposes but also features more outstanding functionality than other operating systems for tablets. Web browsing and online shopping, for examples, benefit from IE 9.0 of Window 7, which concurrently supports ActiveX, Flash, and Java while providing security mechanisms such webpage filtering. Moreover, many online banking services in Taiwan are available only to IE, which really outdoes other operating systems for tablets.In order to support touch screen input, the greatest feature of tablets, Windows 7 has many improvements that make the major functions of most applications touch controllable. For example, Windows Internet Explorer supports various gestures for page forward and backward as well pan and zoom-in and out. Windows Live Photo Gallery provides multi-touch zoom-in and out with edge cue and bounce responses for page panning, and its touch-friendly keyboard that looks even better is more responsive and capable of input anticipation and error correction learning. "These new functions designed by Microsoft to support touch-control screens are an attempt to enrich the user experience in tablets and optimize tablet operation," said Tsai.In order to maximize the effectiveness of tablets operated by touch control, Tsai suggested that system manufacturers keep layouts as clean as possible, make touch-control objects large enough when developing touch-control applications, and remove unnecessary elements in user interfaces to reduce user errors and strengthen user confidence. "In a touch-control environment, users tend to act more intuitively and touch-control objects should be responsive to user movement and consistent with their intuition," said Tsai. Also, it must be ensured that fingers or palms will not cover major user interfaces during operation, and animations and object changes on the display should be consistent with physical laws in the real world for easy operation by gestures. This will facilitate easy learning and provide a consistent user experience. "It is essential that touch-control applications are effective enough when they are assessed based on the perspective of users," added Tsai.As tablets are often handheld when in use, Tsai suggested that hardware design should pay attention to ergonomics by factoring in weight distribution to enable single-hand operation as well as seamlessness between the screen and frame to facilitate touch control at screen corners and edges. "Any handheld area should be smooth enough and avoid heat vents in order to prevent discomfort," said Tsai. Accidental activation of physical keys on the case should also be prevented and touch feedback can be considered to increase user confidence in operating touch control.Moreover, the battery life of tablets is very important. "Most people tend not to switch off their tablets that are not being used," said Tsai. "They tend to use tablets for five minutes and then use them again for 10 minutes after an hour." Therefore, USB should support selective suspend and the battery should be powerful enough to support 72-hour standby, while waking up from the S3 standby mode should take place in two seconds. Touch screen resolution, according to Tsai, should follow Windows 7 Human Interface Device requirements to be higher than 25 ppi, with the sampling rate per finger at least 50Hz. There should be no response from untouched areas; touch accuracy should be within ±2.5; and the distance between an object and the touch points beyond two should be within 5mm. "This will create the highest performance with Windows," he added.Youwei Tsai, software development manager, Software and Services Excellence Center, Microsoft TaiwanPhoto: Digitimes

Have you ever heard of an application, Lovely Time? It is a time-telling app that shows the smile of Taiwan girls. On the other hand, Arock has a cross-desktop, mobile, and web application similar to Lovely Time and available for cloud services. The development of this Arock app took less than one week. This has not been an easy task and, according to David Dong, technology director of Arock, his company is able to make it because the same development tool, Visual Studio 2010, and the same programming languages, Silverlight and C#, were used to have the app developed with more than 90% of its program code identical to that of Lovely Time.Moreover, it is not difficult for Arock to develop relatively simple apps similar to Lovely Time or sophisticated, cross-platform applications because Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, the development tool used by the company, always enables its development of applications cross "three screens and a cloud" at a relatively low cost.Visual Studio, a highly effective development toolDong outlined seven features of Visual Studio that help develop cross-desktop, mobile, and web applications just in one go:1. Unlimited project architectures2. Concurrent development of desktop, mobile phone, and web applications3. Reference to the common .NET Framework4. Use of the same databank5. Common data entity and remote data access technologies 6. Outstanding development process management7. Convenient development, debugging, diagnostics and testingAccording to Dong, convenient development refers to the complete Intellisense mechanism of Visual Studio 2010; support to XAML, JS, CS, and HTML compilation; features of Find All References and View Call Hierarchy for effective program code control; rich Snippet and convenient Refactor functions; and Extension Manager that downloads suitable components and template programs from an online gallery and Visual Studio Component Library to shorten the time required for application development.Outstanding debugging and diagnostics functions of Visual Studio 2010 provide more than 200 built-in rules in Code Analysis as well as Naming Rule to prevent common programming errors and SQL Injection, while Trace & Debug track the process of cross-desktop, mobile, and web application development."If ORM is implemented, WCF and Web Services can be used to access data in remote devices," said Dong.According Dong, the use of the same development tool facilitates the communication among developers of applications across devices, but the lack of a tool that can effectively manage various program codes will very likely result in program code mix-ups. For effective management, Visual Studio's Team Foundation Server is recommended."In addition to Arock, many other software companies have started to use Visual Studio to develop software services that can be immediately implemented on 'three screens and a cloud'," said Dong. "We select the same development tool because it effectively reduces our workload throughout development."David Dong, technology director of ArockPhoto: Digitimes

In June 2010, Microsoft Taiwan announced the establishment of its Software and Services Excellence Center (SSEC). Since then, the SSEC has been endeavoring to develop natural user interfaces (NUI) for various smart cloud devices. Six months later, Microsoft Taiwan hosted a smart cloud platform and application development symposium, sharing the progress of its cooperation with Taiwan's academia and business partners as well as government organizations for the development of cloud devices, cloud servers, and relevant applications and services over the past six months.According to Microsoft Taiwan, the mission of the SSEC is to make good use of Microsoft's years of experience in software, service, and cloud datacenter R&D, its forward-looking software technology, as well as Taiwan's global leadership in hardware R&D to help Taiwan partners develop new generation smart end-user devices and cloud datacenters to create new business opportunities.Over the past six months, the SSEC has worked with 20 Taiwan academia, business, and R&D partners and had 20 projects implemented.For example, Microsoft Taiwan and Sinyi Realty have together developed House View 2.0 service, which is unprecedented in Taiwan. House View 2.0, which runs on Windows 7 tablets with real-time video integrated, helps Sinyi customers understand house layouts and the latest status on the offerings that they are interested in while enabling real-time interaction with Sinyi salespeople.Next let's see the convenient software services that Microsoft Taiwan provides to Taiwan businesses to help them win in the forthcoming era of cloud computing.Attractive cloud services should cater to user demand for convenience, and should provide a friendly human-machine interface, in particular, the touch-control interface that is becoming increasingly important in the marketplace.According to Limin Zhang, a senior consultant for Microsoft Taiwan, nowadays we are getting much more used to touch control and there is a certain demand for multi-touch control, especially for web browsing, accessing audio-visual files, and entertainment such as game playing.Touch control for more intuitive operationMulti-touch control is becoming increasingly popular among computer users because it enables more intuitive operation. For example, map browsing can directly use fingers for drag and pull to move the map, and use the thumb and index finger for pinch and stretch for map zoom-in and out. This is definitely more intuitive than shift and tab.In addition, multi-touch control helps enhance business productivity. For example, if factory workers have to wear thick gloves for a long time and it is inconvenient for them to use any keyboard and mouse, touch-control devices will definitely enhance their effectiveness and efficiency.Then, is it difficult to develop the touch-control applications that meet user needs? How should this be done?It is Limin Zhang''s recommendation that, when selecting programming tools, developers should factor in whether a development platform can be easily accessed, whether a touch-control interface facilitates implementing different tasks, whether various gestures are supported, and whether the applications running on the development platform and supporting support touch control will increase.Windows 7 touch-control development tools: WPF 4.0 and SilverlightAccording to Limin Zhang, Windows 7 is touch control ready because Microsoft provides built-in multi-touch/gesture-control tools, such as WPF 4.0, for the development of various touch-control applications. Since the Windows 7 launch, there have been more and more applications for even easier multi-touch control on the operating system."Windows applications are different from other software tools," said Zhang. "They do not need any gesture API for the window interface to support touch-control applications such as size adjustment, but gesture APIs can also be utilized to develop more diverse and natural interfaces such as rotation zoom-in and out, and reverse." In addition to the basic applications as aforementioned, APIs help design operating methods that are even more convenient and even more cool.In terms of Windows 7 touch-control development tools, WPF 4.0 with multi-touch gesture control and inertia built in is an option, and Silverlight that only supports single-touch control is another, but no further programming for multi-touch control is required when Silverlight is used because Expression Blend 4.0 adds multi-touch control and inertia to objectives."Windows is better than other development platforms because of its built-in touch control," said Zhang. "No further programming is required because Windows development tools enable easy development of even more convenient human-machine interfaces."Easy development of Windows Phone 7 touch-control applicationsMicrosoft also provides Silverlight and XNA, which are development tools of multi-touch gesture control for Windows Phone 7. According to Zhang, Windows Phone 7 supports not only four-point touch control but also single- and multi-touch control such as tap, double tap, pan, flick, touch and stretch, and pinch and stretch.However, not any object on Windows Phone 7 is touch controllable, and developers should pay attention to three issues:1. Touch-control objects: Touch-control objects should be visible to users, not be smaller than nine millimeters (or 34 square pixels), and the space between touchable touch-control widgets should be at least two millimeters (or eight square pixels). Under special circumstances, a widget can be smaller but cannot be smaller than seven millimeters (or 26 square pixels). Moreover, a touch-control object should be larger than a touch-control element, while a touch-control element should not be more than 60% smaller than a touch-control object.2. Touch-control elements: Touch-control elements make touch-control objects visible to users.3. Touch-control widgets: Touch-control widgets combine touch-control elements into touch-control objects.According to Zhang, on the Windows Phone 7 platform developers can select Silverlight or XNA that work with mobile phone and PC application development tools to develop various gesture-touch control applications such as Button, Slider, List Box, Panorama, and Pivot."As long as developers understand Panorama and Pivot design standards, they will be able to easily develop Panorama and Pivot gesture controls on Windows Phone 7," said Zhang.Limin Zhang, senior consultant, Microsoft TaiwanPhoto: Digitimes

Optimistic of the market of cloud services, ViewSonic has been developing Windows 7-based tablets since Microsoft launched Windows 7.According to Alan Chang, general manager of ViewSonic Asia Pacific and Europe, the year 2011 is widely considered the beginning of an era of tablets. But can anyone imagine what it will be like three years from now or beyond? ViewSonic thinks that people will no longer carry MP3 players, notebooks, or other mobile electronics devices with them in the near future because flexible panels connected to cloud services will suffice for their needs.ViewSonic, which is sure that cloud services will become increasing prevalent, has been actively developing user-end devices and seeking the most suitable application model. The company takes the initiative to work with Microsoft, Intel, and other industry partners for the development of many models of tablets and is keen on various events that communicate how tablets in conjunction of cloud services will enhance work efficiency and improve the quality of life."ViewSonic is generous enough to lend more than 30 tablets to our symposium for symposium attendees to download symposium slides in advance and take important notes, view our cases of application development online and download relevant development tools," said Cathy Yeh, senior group manager, Business Marketing Organization, Microsoft Taiwan.Multi-touch control applications for businessesAccording to Wade Tsai, a senior consultant for the Microsoft Technology Center, since the Windows 7 launch Microsoft Taiwan has worked with many Taiwan companies and developed a number of touch-control applications that help facilitate business operation, such as a 3D touch-control apparel demonstration system launched together with Makalot Industrial Co in 2009 and a touch-control display window/showcase system launched together with Eslite in 2010.These examples show that businesses need not only a cool, impressive effect of multi-touch control but also a system that can be operated both online and offline as well as integrated with ERP and BI.Clarification of what business applications need touch control beforehand"Touch control is not omnipotent and we should first assess what applications need touch control and the levels of touch control are required," said Wade Tsai, who categorized touch-control applications into four scenarios:1. Consumer tablet application: A consumer tablet is often used as the secondary PC primarily for entertainment and reading, and the focus is easy access to information instead of information editing.2. Professional tablet application: Professional tablets provide specialized applications to the education, law, and medical industries, for example. Doctors and nurses can use such tablets to rapidly access medical records of patients, and real estate agents can provide real-time demonstration of house statuses and prices to customers.3. Entertainment and professional tablet application: Such tablets, e.g., flip-top tablets, are used as the primary PC for both work and entertainment.4. High-end business tablet application: High-end business tablets provide more intuitive business applications to senior executives, e.g., an icon, when touched, immediately shows the factors that influence inventories.According to Tsai, the above four scenarios require different touch-control applications, and a company should first clarify whether the touch control functions to be adopted would help enhance the applications that it wants. If the answer is yes, which level of touch control is required should then be identified, e.g., single-touch control, multi-touch control, gesture control, or other special touch control functions.How to more effectively and efficiently add touch control to applications is the next focus of attention.According to Tsai, developers should consider how an operating system communicate with device screens, how the operating system processes touch-gesture control, and how applications respond to the system interface changed by touch-gesture control. If applications are based on Windows, it is relatively easy to add touch control because the underlying WPF supports gesture and touch control as well as inertia and no further programming for touch control is required."As the difference between PCs and other end-user devices such as mobile phones is increasingly vague, developers are recommended to carefully consider whether development platforms and tools support cross-platform development, whether application services can be integrated into different platforms, whether development tools support cross-platform compilation and management, and whether the applications to be developed have common modules for other applications," suggested Tsai.Alan Chang, general manager of ViewSonic Asia Pacific and EuropePhoto: DigitimesWade Tsai, senior consultant for Microsoft Technology CenterPhoto: DigitimesCathy Yeh, senior group manager, Business Marketing Organization, Microsoft TaiwanPhoto: Digitimes

Samsung Electronics has announced the development of 1Gb mobile DRAM with a wide I/O interface, using 50nm-class process technology. The new wide I/O mobile DRAM will be used in mobile applications, such as smartphones and tablet PCs.Samsung said the new wide I/O mobile DRAM uses 512 pins for data input and output compared to the previous generation of mobile DRAMs, which used a maximum of 32 pins. "If you include the pins that are involved in sending commands and regulating power supply, a single Samsung wide I/O DRAM is designed to accommodate approximately 1,200 pins," Samsung pointed out.The new Samsung 1Gb mobile DRAM can transmit data at 12.8GB per second, which increases the bandwidth of mobile DDR DRAM (1.6GB/s) eightfold while reducing power consumption by approximately 87%. The bandwidth is also four times that of LPDDR2 DRAM (which is approximately 3.2GB/s).In addition, Samsung is aiming to provide 20nm-class 4Gb wide I/O mobile DRAM sometime in 2013. The company revealed its recent achievements in mobile DRAM include introducing the first 50nm-class 1Gb LPDDR2 DRAM in 2009, and the first 40nm-class 2Gb LPDDR2 in 2010.Samsung will present a paper related to wide I/O DRAM technology at the 2011 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) being held from February 20 to 24 in San Francisco.Citing iSuppli, Samsung expects mobile DRAM to account for 16.5% of total annual DRAM shipments worldwide in 2014, up from about 11.1% in 2010.

AU Optronics (AUO; TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) will attend 2011 SNEC 5th International Photovoltaic Power Generation Exhibition & Conference and showcase the world's highest efficiency PV module SunForte PM318B00 with a conversion rate up to 19.5% and eco-friendly PV modules. AUO will deliver low-carbon, advanced and high-quality total green solutions to clients through its world's highest efficiency vertical solar value chain.AUO is a global leading low-carbon TFT-LCD corporation and has been developing proactively its solar business since 2008. The company by acquiring M.Setek, and joint venturing with SunPower, it has created the world's highest efficiency vertical solar value chain, including polysilicon raw material, solar cell, PV module and system projects. AUO has also established its first high-efficiency PV plant in Tianjin, which will be the first PV plant in China acknowledged by US Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. The plant is designed to be a green facility, with construction and equipment installation expected to complete this year. Its total capacity will reach 1GW.In addition to establishing green PV plants, AUO has engaged itself in promoting carbon footprint verification for products. AUO's EcoDuo PM220P00 is the world's first PV module to have passed PAS2050 carbon footprint verification by SGS, signifying a critical milestone for the PV industry. AUO will also benchmark all its future PV modules against this standard and devote itself to energy-saving designs, raw material reduction or replacement, and develop innovative R&D technologies to effectively lower total CO2 emissions and reduce carbon footprints in products.In 2011 SNEC 5th International, AUO will display the high efficiency mono-crystalline SunForte PM318B00 that targets densely populated urban areas with smaller rooftops. The SunForte PM318B00 has a conversion rate as high as 19.5%, the world's highest for PV modules, and the output is approximately 40% higher than that of the conventional module in the industry with conversion rate of 14%. The product will maximize the solar power output for solar system users. Moreover, AUO will also demonstrate its PM240P00 PV module that could withstand salt corrosion and moisture in coastal or humid areas, making the power systems more efficient. All AUO high-efficiency PV modules are tested for power performance and durability in UL certificated laboratories, meeting CGC, TUV, UL, IEC standards to assure customers of excellent long-term first class power generation warranty. In the future, AUO will continue to take advantage of its world's highest efficiency vertical solar value chain to design low-carbon and high efficiency PV products, and offer high quality total green solutions to customers with its innovative R&D strengths and mature supply chain management systems.AUO PV module SunForte PM318B00 Photo: Company