Intel chip giant trying to enter the consumer electronics market

Digital television equipment manufacturer Zarlink semiconductor company and the British branch company said recently, has agreed to sell its RF (radio frequency) Front-End Consumer Business technology patents sold to chip manufacturing giant Intel. It is reported that the company mainly for digital TV manufacturers and other parts of the demodulator and fm. According to the two companies to disclose the acquisition contract, Intel UK Department will pay $68 million in cash for these patents, as well as other forms of payment of $2 million. In fact, the chip manufacturing giant has been on the digital home market institute, hope to provide the chip products for the consumer electronic equipment manufacturers, such as digital TV, set-top box and recorder etc.. The production of Zarlink demodulator and frequency modulation is a necessary component of these consumer electronics products, through these two parts, digital products can receive the digital signal sent by the user. According to Intel, the intellectual property purchase plan will be completed in mid November 2005, Zarlink said it would continue to support the existing product line.

France

Afp.com: the United States released $99.99 personal computers online, the computer industry into the era of cheap

On Sunday, CompUSA unveiled a $99.99 personal computer product on the aol. If you look back at the history of the computer industry, we will find that as early as 2000 and 1999, the Internet giant has launched a so-called free computer to attract the user's attention. It is reported that the release of less than 100 yuan of personal computer products using Intel Celeron processor, and includes a display and a printer and other products, usually in accordance with market pricing, this product price should be $549.99, but now the order can get a $450 discount. Of course, in order to buy this computer, the user must also choose to provide online monthly $23.9 monthly service. Although the promotional campaign lasted only one day, but it still marks the PC market has entered a period of extreme discount". In fact, in July of this year, CompUSA has launched a price of only $199 for a 17 inch display computer, then the United States and the United States is the online portal. Coincidentally, HP has also promoted a $198.99 cheap PC, and did not attach any additional terms. In addition, including HP, DELL, Acer notebook computer manufacturers also said, will gradually to below $499 Windows notebook product transition.

The Republic of Korea

English.yna.co.kr: South Korea's Samsung mobile phone sales this year is expected to exceed one hundred million units

According to this Monday, an official report, Samsung Electronics is expected in the year sales of their 100000000th sets of mobile phone products, which also marks the South Korean mobile phone manufacturers, following Finland NOKIA, Motorola third, achieve the sales of mobile phone manufacturers milepost. According to the South Korean mobile phone sector data provided by the president of the Samsung Corp, in the third quarter of this year, the company's mobile phone sales will reach 26 million units in the first half of the past, the company's mobile phone sales reached 48 million 900 thousand units, so long as they can maintain the normal water level before, taking into account the upcoming Christmas shopping spree. Break the 100 million sales mark is not a difficult thing.