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According to foreign media reports, Intel announced on Friday that Dell Inspiron Mini 10 screen the company is located in Vietnam’s chip assembly and testing facility officially started operation. This is Intel’s investment in Vietnam as part of $ 1,000,000,000, and will create thousands of manufacturing jobs.

Intel factory in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Intel said the plant started from a few months before the production of chips for laptops and mobile devices group. Once fully operational, it will bring huge exports in Vietnam.

Many multinational companies instead of the view that Vietnam is a low-cost manufacturing base in China, but Vietnam is still subject to strikes, high inflation and the adverse effects of low levels of education. Intel said, including office and production space, including clean, the plant area of five and a half football fields. The plant will have capacity to produce the future of advanced microprocessors.

Researchers in the U.S. principle of imitation of the electric eel power generation has developed a new battery, power generation by ion concentration difference. December 2007 Christmas Eve, a Japanese aquarium on the Christmas tree lights will be fitted with an electric eel tank connected to light the Christmas tree lights. From the perspective of a show, an aquarium to be very successful, attracting a large number of tourists.

Many species on Earth will use the body’s own ion concentration differences. Helenians brain for example: the human brain to rely on the release of electrical pulses, “bundling” of neurotransmitters in the calcium ions, to achieve the communication with other nervous system. Electric eel power generation system can generate strong power, it is the use of the body cells of about 6,000 power difference between the concentration of sodium ions. Under normal circumstances, the power of the individual cells are separated from each other. When the electric eel to find prey, it will open the cell door to free flow of ions. Because the electric eel in the water, but water is conductive solvent, when it is the body’s flow of charged ions, there will be current.

David pulled all countries in the Maryland Institute of Standards and Technology researchers. He and his colleagues are studying the cell membrane of living cells and their membrane proteins, hopes to guide the selectivity of the protein within the cell membrane ion flow to generate electricity. Experiment the beginning stages of their research is artificial as “the original cell.” These primitive cells and real cells, the fat molecules in the film wrapped. Films, “swimming” protein only certain ions through. Later, researchers realized that the original cells may be utilized to imitate the electric eel power generation system.

Later, the team will be the fusion of two primitive cells, let them share their part of the film. Then, they will be diluted into a potassium chloride cells, while the other cells with higher concentrations of potassium chloride is injected. Two intracellular potassium and chloride ion concentrations were naturally led to a lower concentration of ions from the higher concentration of cells into the cell. However, the test cell in the original film is too thick to a large extent hindered the free flow of ions.

To solve this problem, Dr. Lavender and his colleagues to add to the original cell membrane, a protein called α hemolysin. α hemolysin is a selective function as a bridge, which allows the positively charged potassium ions, while preventing the negatively charged chloride ions. When the ions in one direction, the electrons (negatively charged) will flow in the opposite direction. In order to generate electron flow current, the working group will take two tiny electrodes in the original cells.

Internationally renowned researchers in the journal “Advanced Materials” published a report. The report said that if the resistance of the electrode materials and electronic original cell membrane by the resistance encountered as the electrode can be in the “useful period of time” generating “useful current.” The number of primitive cells within the battery the more the battery life will be longer. Dr. Lavender said that the two original cell diameter of a few centimeters long enough that the electricity 10 hours a MP3.

Tablet PC concept was originally proposed by Microsoft, as early as 2002, Microsoft made smug Tablet PC concept, but because of technical barriers, and ahead of the general consumer market, has not developed Tablet PC, Microsoft said: Tablet PC is a need flip, no keyboard, small enough to put Ms. handbags, but full-featured PC, relative to the laptop, except it has all of its functions, also supports handwriting input or voice input, mobility and portability are better, At the time, Tablet PC is the representative of next generation mobile business PC, Microsoft also predicted: 5 years later, the Tablet PC will become the mainstream of portable personal computers, although not realized, however, introduced by Apple iPad, Microsoft in 2010 dream.

While Microsoft did not promote the Tablet PC success, but at that time, many PC manufacturers have introduced a keyboard integrated with the host variable type tablet PCs, we can think that the first generation of Tablet PC, that is the host through a ingenious structure and tight junction digital LCD screen, LCD screen can be folded together with the host as a “flat panel computer” to use, but will set off when the LCD screen can be used as a digital ink and handwriting with input / control functions notebook, and it can be up and down folding screen, 180 ° rotation and touch capabilities, said the extent of a first generation of Tablet PC is actually a notebook, “can be rotated to the touch” version, but still not enough in terms of mobility and portability.

With the increased demand for portable users, the second generation of Tablet PC is a “pure” Tablet PC, that is, the host computer and digital integrated LCD screen, the handwriting input as its main input, they are more stressed with the move, of course, at any time through USB port, Bluetooth, WIFI or 3G modules extend more applications, which iPad is a typical product, at present, HP, ViewSonic, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Archos, HW, Taiwan Power Company and other manufacturers have introduced the second generation Tablet PC. In portability, the second generation of tablet PCs as PDA, handheld computers, like notebook at any time, create text, graphics and pictures, but also easy access to the Internet, send and receive email, play Web games or watch videos, ideal for mobile business use.