Asus Corp

Asus Corp
said on Tuesday it will resume plans to build a new flash memory chip plant in Japan, a further Asus Laptop Battery sign of growing optimism in the sector about growth in chip demand.

The world’s second-largest NAND flash memory maker behind Samsung Electronics said the popularity of smartphones and other gadgets was behind rising demand for NAND memory.

Rivals like Samsung and SanDisk Corp have also given bullish outlooks for the chip market, which had been battered amid the global economic downturn.

Asus said it would start the construction of its Asus A42-A3 Battery fifth plant in Mie, central Japan, where all of its NAND memory production is located but added that it has not decided on the scale of investment or the plant’s output capacity.

The company had originally planned to start the construction of the plant in spring 2009 and for it to be completed this year but the project had been put on hold following the industry slump.

Asus shares jumped 3.8 percent to 467 yen, outperforming a 0.2 percent decline in the benchmark Nikkei average .N225, buoyed by a report that Asus and Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates would team up to develop a next-generation nuclear reactor that can operate for up to 100 years without refuelling.

Asus later said it was in talks with TerraPower, which is effectively Digital Camera Battery owned by Gates, about the joint development of small nuclear reactors.

Tensilica, Inc. today announced that NTT DOCOMO has confirmed that several Tensilica Xtensa LX dataplane processor cores are used in the latest LTE mobile handset system-on-chip design demonstrated in February at the Mobile World Congress. NTT DOCOMO previously exhibited the device developed under a collaborative project among DOCOMO, Fujitsu, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications, who will deploy the chip for their LTE handsets and datacards.

“Tensilica’s DPUs helped us pack the LTE functions in a small and Canon Digital Camera Battery power-efficient footprint, and they contributed greatly to the efficient implementation and first-time silicon success of our LTE chip,” stated Toshio Miki, Associated Senior Vice President & Managing Director of Communication Device Development Department of NTT DOCOMO. “We also achieved a faster time to market and gained post-silicon flexibility due to programmability without sacrificing power or area efficiency.”

“The DOCOMO project is clearly leading the race to bring LTE technology to the market, and we are delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to this rapid and successful development, which was demonstrated integrated into an LTE terminal and an LTE canon NB-1L battery datacard at last month’s Mobile World Congress,” stated Jack Guedj, Tensilica’s president and CEO. “The project proves that our Xtensa DPUs provide both programmability and speed/power efficiency to help designers meet the high performance requirements of LTE wireless modems.”

A mind-boggling 13 billion plastic bottles are tossed in the trash or recycled each year. And while most plastics are recyclable, the resulting materials are limited to “second generation reuse” only–so anything made out of recycled plastics has to be thrown on the landfill pile at the end of it’s life. But now researchers from canon NB-2L battery and Stanford say they have solved the problem by developing plastics that can be continuously recycled.

The discovery, published in the American Chemical Society journal Macromolecules, involves the use of organic catalysts instead of the metal oxide and metal hydroxide catalysts typically used in plastic-forming polymers. While metal catalysts canon BP-511 battery degrade the polymers so that the plastic becomes increasingly unrecyclable over time, the organic catalysts stay strong.

Another advantage: the organic catalysts are cheap. And eventually, researchers believe that the new, green plastic could be used as drug delivery devices for cancer patients. IBM is already talking to pharmaceutical companies about a potential pilot project. We’re sure that there are other applications to the technology that haven’t been explored yet, or as IBM laptop battery says, there are “sustainability implications across a wide range of industries including biodegradable plastics, plastics recycling, health care and microelectronics.” Stay tuned.