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Sharp incurs net loss of 1.3 billion dollars in fiscal year 2008

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Tokyo – Sharp Corp incurred a net loss for fiscal 2008 after the company introduced inventory control, cost-reduction measures and structural reforms, it said Monday. The Japanese electronics company reported a net loss of 125.82 billion yen (1.3 billion dollars) the fiscal year that ended March 31, a reversal from the profit of 101.92 billion yen the previous fiscal year.

It also incurred operating losses of 55.48 billion yen, compared to operating profits of 183.69 billion yen the year before. Sales fell 16.7 per cent to 2.85 trillion yen.

The firm attributed its losses to the yen’s surge and harsher price competition, as well as to declining consumption.

For the current fiscal year, Sharp projected a net profit of 3 billion yen, operating profit of 50 billion yen and sales of 2.75 trillion yen.(dpa)

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Now, ultra small, energy efficient computer chip

April 24, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 23 (ANI): Scientists from University of California, Davis have developed an ultra small chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks.

The 167-processor chip, known as AsAP, is fully reprogrammable, extremely energy-efficient, highly configurable. It can be widely adapted to a number of applications.

The maximum clock speed for the 167-processor AsAP is 1.2 gigahertz (GHz), but at slower speeds its energy efficiency soars.

Moreover, twelve chips working together could perform more than half-a-trillion operations per second (.52 Tera-ops/sec) while using less power than a 7-watt light bulb.

“A battery powering this chip will typically last from several times to 75 times longer than it would under the same workload when powering some of the common commercially available digital signal processing chips,” said Bevan Baas, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and leader of the design team.

“At the same time, with our targeted applications, we’re getting several times to 10 times better speed than what is currently available – all with a much smaller chip.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest clock-rate processor chip designed at any university,” Baas added.

The chip, built with industry-standard fabrication technology and design tools, embodies a number of novel architectural and circuit features, Baas explained.

The scientists have written a number of software applications for the chip, which has been fabricated by the international electronics company STMicrotronics. Some of them are Wi-Fi receiver and several complex components of an H.264 video encoder.

The details of the design have been published in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. (ANI)

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Now, ultra small, energy efficient computer chip

April 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment