新疆和田玉的分布和产地

新疆和田玉的分布和产地

　　新疆和田玉分布在新疆所辖昆仑山和阿尔金山一带.西起喀什地区的塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县,中经和田地区,东到巴音郭楞蒙古自治州的且末、若羌县,北至塔里木盆地边缘,南到昆仑山和阿尔金山主峰,全长约1300千米,宽约80～150千米,地域范围内包括3个地州共14个县市.

　　新疆和田玉原生矿约40处,主要分布在叶城、莎车、塔什库尔干、皮山、和田、于田、且末、若羌等县,这些玉矿有的古代已开采,有的是现代新发现的.近年来还发现了一些新的玉矿,这些玉矿均分布在海拔3500～4500米的高山之上,与冰雪相辉映,成为奇特的风景线.这种分布并不是偶然的,而是由地质条件决定的,由于玉矿在高山地带,所以找矿和开采都非常不容易.

　　和田玉的产量,总体上由古代到现代呈上升之势.古代的产量无详细记载资料,仅清代有一些记录,据这些资料推测,清代和田玉产出量约1500吨,年平均约5吨.而现代的产量,仅据且末县近三十年的统计,累计产玉2870吨,年平均约95吨.可见,在几千年和田玉开采史中,资源并没有被采尽,而且还有资源潜力.但是,和田玉属于珍贵稀缺资源,一定要在保护中有计划地合理开采,不能竭泽而渔.

　　昆仑山玉矿

　　昆仑山是世界上著名山脉之一.它西起帕米尔,向东与长江、黄河的发源地巴颜喀拉山相连,横亘于新疆、青海、西藏等省区,从东向西,全长2500公里.山势高峻雄伟,山脊线平均海拔高度达5500米,有十多座高峰超过海拔7000米,乔戈里峰海拔8611米,是世界第二高峰.昆仑山是我国历史上有重大影响的山脉,在远古时代,被称为”万山之祖”.《穆天子转》《山海经》《淮南子》等书,记载了昆仑山的不少神话和传说,其中不少与美玉有关.在我国的史册中,从《史记》到《清史稿》的二十五史中,记录了昆仑山产玉的情况.

　　从地质调查得知,和田玉矿在新疆境内主要分布于昆仑山西部,在叶城到于田一带的山、河中.除各河流产仔玉外,原生矿床集中分布在以下三个地区.

　　莎车-叶城地区原生玉矿主要有大同、密尔岱、库浪那古等地.大同玉矿在元代时曾大量开采,并设有碾玉作坊,现在调查见有玉矿体五个,古代多已开采.密尔岱是清代最重要的玉矿,有几处矿,开采盛时达三千多人,以产大玉著名,清代贡玉也多来自此处.密尔岱山地区玉矿有密尔岱、血亚诺特、要隆等玉石矿,分布在海拔高3500～5000米的高山地区,地形切割剧烈,这个地区有多少玉矿至今是个谜.这是一个古老的玉矿,玉矿生长在大山的中间一段,资源非常丰富,并以产优质青玉著称.

　　在二十世纪80年代,地质工作者首次对密尔岱山玉矿进行了调查,见玉矿带长120米,宽3～5米,有多个玉矿体,沿一定方向断续串成矿脉状,自地表至下30米深,大多被采空,玉石以青玉和青白玉为主,白玉极少.玉矿的生成与所有和田玉矿一样,都是由接触交代作用形成,地质条件相似.青玉矿体产在白云石大理岩中,玉矿残留开采矿坑甚多,较大者有三个,最大一个采矿坑约长70米,宽20米,深30米.这只是一个踏勘性调查,矿区也没有进行详细勘察,因此,密尔岱山资源情况总体尚不清楚,有待深入调查.

　　皮山-和田地区这是古代产玉最著名的地区,早在汉代《史记》中就记载.产玉之河以玉龙喀什河和喀拉喀什河最驰名,原生玉矿主要有皮山县赛图拉、铁日克、和田县奥米沙等处.赛图拉和铁日克地段于喀拉喀什河上游区域,玉矿产地多,资源最大,多为青玉,并有白玉、青白玉等,有的玉石颜色为灰白色,现代也进行了开采.玉龙喀什河流域的原生玉矿,虽然在黑山一带有线索,但是碍于冰山之雪,人不能登山勘察,至今还是一个谜.

　　策勒－于田地区河流中也产玉,但以原生矿著名,其分布于策勒县哈奴约提河、于田县阿拉玛斯、依格浪古地段.于田县阿拉玛斯玉矿是从清代开始一直到现在开采的重要玉矿,以产白玉(图2)著名于世.该矿化带长达千米,有两个矿段,多个矿体,是近百年来出产白玉山料的主要矿山,现已基本停采.

　　阿拉玛斯玉矿位于于田县东南的柳什塔格山中,海拔高4500～5000米,空气稀薄,气候寒冷,交通非常不便.现在汽车只能从于田县城驶到柳什村(约80多千米),从此到矿山有40千米,要翻过大山,只有驼运小路.因此,交通也非常困难.

　　阿拉玛斯玉矿是世界上罕有的白玉矿山,在地表及浅部主要是优质的白玉和青白玉.其分布是:上层矿主要是白玉和青白玉,无青玉出现；中层矿主要青白玉,白玉所占比例下降；下层矿在50米以下,主要是青玉,白玉和青白玉减少.这一分布规律与成矿条件有关,距离岩浆侵入体较远,则白玉多,距离岩浆侵入体较近,则青玉较多.深部青玉多,是因为侵入体在深部出现.阿拉玛斯玉矿以优质的白玉(图3)和青白玉著名,还与周围白云石大理岩和侵入体的含铁很低有关.

　　阿尔金山玉矿

　　阿尔金山是夹于塔里木盆地东南部和柴达木盆地西北部之间的山脉,地跨新疆、青海、甘肃等区,走向北东,长约750千米,其向东与祁连山相接.山的北麓是古代玉石之路和丝绸之路的通道,汉代的玉门关就在此路上.古代也以产玉著名,在罗布泊地区楼兰出土的玉斧,约有四千年的历史.十三世纪70年代,意大利著名的旅行家马可·波罗在路过且末时曾见到采玉的盛况,说境内有几条河流,出产青玉和碧玉(图4、图5)等销往内地,数量十分巨大,是该地大宗输出品.

　　现代地质调查得知,阿尔金山产出的和田玉主要分布在以下两个地区:

　　且末地区是阿尔金山产玉的主要地区,除河流中产玉外,原生矿分布于且末县的东南.在长约110千米范围内已知有五处产地,在海拔3500米以上的高山上,有塔什赛因、尤努斯萨依、塔特勒克苏、布拉克萨依、哈达里克奇台等玉矿.且末县产的玉是玉器界中有名的“卡羌料”,1972年找到了古玉矿,1973年成立且末县玉石矿,从此,阿尔金山玉矿在沉睡多年后,再次展现了绚丽的丰采.从1972年到现在,累计采玉达3000多吨.现在,阿尔金山和田玉矿山料占全疆和田玉山料总产量的三分之二左右,成为新疆和田玉山料的主要基地.

　　塔特勒克苏是且末县的主要玉矿,位于且末县城东南125公里处,从县城到山口可以通汽车,而到玉矿的27公里全是驼运小道.这个玉矿产于片麻状花岗岩与白云石大理岩的接触带内,成矿条件与阿拉玛斯等玉矿基本相似.有多条玉矿化带,受断层带控制,长几十米到上百米,宽几十厘米到几十米.矿体产于矿脉带中,矿体大小规模不等,单体矿体长十余米,宽一至两米,矿体呈脉状、团块状、巢状,非常不规则.有七个矿,其中主要是三号矿,它分布在矿区的中间地带,三十年来产玉至少100多吨,还采到过100公斤以上的青白玉优质大块玉料.其次是二号矿和五号矿,分布在悬崖陡壁上,开采困难.五号矿在1983年采出的一块重420公斤的优质白玉,由扬州玉器厂雕琢出一件白玉“五塔”,被国家珍藏.二号矿总计已产玉80吨左右.

　　塔特勒克苏玉矿的玉石以青白玉为主,其次是青玉,少量白玉.玉料块度较大,曾采出重达1502公斤的青白玉和2874公斤的青白玉.并且以糖玉著名,不论白玉、青白玉,或青玉都经过氧化形成了糖色,包裹在玉石外面,糖玉可琢成俏色玉器,深受人们欢迎.塔什萨依,在且末县城东南290公里处,在塔什萨依河的源头,海拔4000米,它也是一个古玉矿,1973年重新发现,即组织开采.全矿区主要有六个矿,玉石主要是青白玉,有很大的山料,如有一块重约60吨的青玉.

　　且末县玉矿在开采过程中不断地发现,玉界人士提出且末玉矿的分布,是以塔什萨依-尤努斯萨依-塔特勒克苏为主线,有江格萨依后沟、卡矿萨依、奇台萨依、新江格萨依、红柳沟、秦不拉克、阿羌等七条支线,说明玉矿资源是有潜力的.值得注意的是且末县还有黄玉和翠青玉的信息,如能找到原生玉矿将是重要的发现.

　　若羌地区分布于若羌县城的西南和南部,从瓦石峡到库如克萨依一带.库如克萨依玉矿,位于若羌县城南的高山地区,古人已开采,二十世纪90年代重新开采,是产玉的重要矿山之一.经初步地质调查,在35平方公里内有五个玉矿和一个玉矿化点,玉矿化带长30～80米,宽3～8米,一般矿带内有2～4个玉矿体,玉石以青白玉和青玉为主,玉略带黄色,已开采出玉150吨以上,是一个远景广阔的玉矿.近年来在米兰地区发现有和田玉的报道,表明玉矿带一直向东延展.

　　新疆的和田玉是我国的特色资源,是新疆的优势矿产.其主要分布在昆仑山和阿尔金山地区,已知原生矿产地有数十处,这些产地资源和开采情况不尽相同,有的已闭坑,有的正在开采,都有很好的资源开采基地或后备基地.随着和田玉文化的不断传播以及人们对和田玉的推崇和喜爱,新疆和田玉的资源已引起了人们的高度关注,因此对和田玉原生矿勘查力度的加强具有重要的现实意义.

　　注释:现行“国标”上的和田玉是广义上的,不具有产地意义.本文所述和田玉是从狭义和田玉定义出发,介绍新疆和田玉主要矿区的分布以及主要原料的产地,具有典型的产地意义.

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AMD's Jaguar packs four cores in one for mobile

AMD's Jaguar packs four cores in one for mobile

CUPERTINO, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices will describe Jaguar, a low-power x86 core for notebooks, tablets and embedded systems at Hot Chips here. Jaguar packs four x86 cores into one unit with a large shared L2 cache to compete both with Intel’s Core and Atom chips.

In a separate keynote talk, AMD will announce a follow-on for its HyperTransport processor interconnect. Freedom Fabric aims to link thousands of cores at more than a terabit/second, likely based on technology acquired from SeaMicro.

AMD is expected to try to make Freedom Fabric an industry standard across x86, graphics and ARM cores, competing with the proprietary Quick Path Interconnect on Intel’s CPUs. Last week, the RapidIO Trade Association said it is trying to get ARM and its SoC partners to adopt its technology as a processor interconnect.

As for the Jaguar core, AMD predicts that based on simulations it will deliver more than ten percent higher frequencies and more than 15 percent more instructions per clock than Bobcat, its current low power x86 core. Jaguar will appear in 2013 in AMD’s Kabini SoC for low-power notebooks and in Temash, AMD’s first sub-5W SoC, aimed at tablets.

The chip sports a re-designed load/store unit and an expanded 128-bit floating point unit. It includes several new instructions to support AES encryption, accelerate media processing and switch big/little endian structures for embedded systems. But the most novel aspect of the new core is its use of four x86 cores in a single unit sharing one L2 cache.

“From a core perspective we will call this a four-core unit that forms the building block of an SoC design,” said Jeff Rupley, an AMD Fellow and chief architect of Jaguar. “It’s possible to fuse off some cores for lower end or lower power designs,” he said.

AMD found sharing one 1-2 Mbyte L2 cache among the cores saves silicon area over using four private caches. It also provides a performance boost when only one or two single-threaded cores are running and can then access a larger memory pool.

“Generally the larger cache outweighs the latency” of needing an L2 cache interface, Rupley said. “There could be an app where the latency increase defeats the capacity boost, but across a large swath of apps, there’s a pretty positive uplift,” he said.

One down side to the approach is that all four cores must run at the same dynamic data rate. That means the unit may burn excess power if one tasks needs a high frequency and other simultaneous jobs do not. The cores also share one bus interface to a memory controller.

On a positive note, AMD enhanced the design so that individual cores can more rapidly enter and exit deep sleep state. In addition the L2 data cache is only clocked when an outstanding transaction needs access to the data.
TAG:Hot Chips AMD Jaguar Cores X86 Mobile Notebooks Tablets Interconnect Intel SeaMicro AES Temash

Making every TV 'smart'

Making every TV 'smart'

PORTLAND, Ore.–Hillcrest Labs Inc. announced Tuesday (Aug. 28) it downsized its motion processing algorithms to run on an 8-bit microcontroller inside a television remote control.

Known as Freespace MotionEngine Lite, the software allows nearly any TV manufacture to convert existing "dumb" models into Smart TVs merely by choosing the right remote.

All Smart TVs today run their motion processing algorithms on the 32-bit application processor inside the television, relegating the remote control to merely sending the raw sensor data from the MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope inside it.

"Any television manufacturer who controls an on-screen cursor with buttons today can now upgrade that model to a smart TV by running our motion processing algorithms on their remote control," said Chad Lucien, senior vice president at Hillcrest (Rockville, Md.).

Texas Instruments has signed on, announcing simultaneously that its ZigBee RF4CE (radio frequency for consumer electronics) and Bluetooth system-on-chips (SoCs)—CC2533 and CC2541, respectively—can now run Hillcrest's Freespace MotionEngine Lite. Also remote control makers SMK Electronics and Universal Electronics have signed up and are currently offering smart remotes running Freespace MotionEngine Lite to television manufacturers, with end-user products due by Christmas.


Hillcrest Labs has managed to downsize its Freespace MotionEngine algorithms to run entirely on the 8-bit microcontrollers the Smart TV remote control.

TAG:EETimes NextGenLog Electronics

Making every TV 'smart'

Making every TV 'smart'

PORTLAND, Ore.–Hillcrest Labs Inc. announced Tuesday (Aug. 28) it downsized its motion processing algorithms to run on an 8-bit microcontroller inside a television remote control.

Known as Freespace MotionEngine Lite, the software allows nearly any TV manufacture to convert existing "dumb" models into Smart TVs merely by choosing the right remote.

All Smart TVs today run their motion processing algorithms on the 32-bit application processor inside the television, relegating the remote control to merely sending the raw sensor data from the MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope inside it.

"Any television manufacturer who controls an on-screen cursor with buttons today can now upgrade that model to a smart TV by running our motion processing algorithms on their remote control," said Chad Lucien, senior vice president at Hillcrest (Rockville, Md.).

Texas Instruments has signed on, announcing simultaneously that its ZigBee RF4CE (radio frequency for consumer electronics) and Bluetooth system-on-chips (SoCs)—CC2533 and CC2541, respectively—can now run Hillcrest's Freespace MotionEngine Lite. Also remote control makers SMK Electronics and Universal Electronics have signed up and are currently offering smart remotes running Freespace MotionEngine Lite to television manufacturers, with end-user products due by Christmas.


Hillcrest Labs has managed to downsize its Freespace MotionEngine algorithms to run entirely on the 8-bit microcontrollers the Smart TV remote control.

TAG:EETimes NextGenLog Electronics

AMD's Jaguar packs four cores in one for mobile

AMD's Jaguar packs four cores in one for mobile

CUPERTINO, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices will describe Jaguar, a low-power x86 core for notebooks, tablets and embedded systems at Hot Chips here. Jaguar packs four x86 cores into one unit with a large shared L2 cache to compete both with Intel’s Core and Atom chips.

In a separate keynote talk, AMD will announce a follow-on for its HyperTransport processor interconnect. Freedom Fabric aims to link thousands of cores at more than a terabit/second, likely based on technology acquired from SeaMicro.

AMD is expected to try to make Freedom Fabric an industry standard across x86, graphics and ARM cores, competing with the proprietary Quick Path Interconnect on Intel’s CPUs. Last week, the RapidIO Trade Association said it is trying to get ARM and its SoC partners to adopt its technology as a processor interconnect.

As for the Jaguar core, AMD predicts that based on simulations it will deliver more than ten percent higher frequencies and more than 15 percent more instructions per clock than Bobcat, its current low power x86 core. Jaguar will appear in 2013 in AMD’s Kabini SoC for low-power notebooks and in Temash, AMD’s first sub-5W SoC, aimed at tablets.

The chip sports a re-designed load/store unit and an expanded 128-bit floating point unit. It includes several new instructions to support AES encryption, accelerate media processing and switch big/little endian structures for embedded systems. But the most novel aspect of the new core is its use of four x86 cores in a single unit sharing one L2 cache.

“From a core perspective we will call this a four-core unit that forms the building block of an SoC design,” said Jeff Rupley, an AMD Fellow and chief architect of Jaguar. “It’s possible to fuse off some cores for lower end or lower power designs,” he said.

AMD found sharing one 1-2 Mbyte L2 cache among the cores saves silicon area over using four private caches. It also provides a performance boost when only one or two single-threaded cores are running and can then access a larger memory pool.

“Generally the larger cache outweighs the latency” of needing an L2 cache interface, Rupley said. “There could be an app where the latency increase defeats the capacity boost, but across a large swath of apps, there’s a pretty positive uplift,” he said.

One down side to the approach is that all four cores must run at the same dynamic data rate. That means the unit may burn excess power if one tasks needs a high frequency and other simultaneous jobs do not. The cores also share one bus interface to a memory controller.

On a positive note, AMD enhanced the design so that individual cores can more rapidly enter and exit deep sleep state. In addition the L2 data cache is only clocked when an outstanding transaction needs access to the data.
TAG:Hot Chips AMD Jaguar Cores X86 Mobile Notebooks Tablets Interconnect Intel SeaMicro AES Temash

ST forms joint venture with Chinese car maker

ST forms joint venture with Chinese car maker

LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) and Chinese automobile maker FAW Group Corp. (Changchun, China) have formed a joint laboratory to conduct research into multiple aspects of automotive electronics and develop components.

State-owned FAW is China's oldest vehicle maker and produces trucks, buses, special vehicles and sedans. It was established in 1953 and sold more than two million vehicles in 2011.

As part of the deal with ST FAW will adopt ST's microcontrollers (MCUs) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and software while the joint venture will research power train, chassis, safety, car body, car infotainment, and new-energy technologies, as well as other automotive applications.

ST's automotive portfolio includes PowerPC-based 32-bit microcontrollers and engine management systems. The ST/FAW lab is expected to develop ICs for engine control, transmission control and power steering.

China has been the world's largest automobile producer for the last three years, according to ST quoting Jun Li, director of the FAW R&D Center.


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Yoshida in China: Fallout from Apple-Samsung lawsuit

Yoshida in China: Fallout from Apple-Samsung lawsuit

While Apple’s victory in the landmark Apple vs Samsung patent lawsuit dominated the news cycle over the weekend in the Western media, the story got more or less a subdued, understated treatment — buried deep inside the business section — in the China Daily.

Nobody should be surprised at this treatment of a matter on “non-Chinese” news. Yet I confess that I kept looking for reaction stories on the topic in the Chinese media, because I am convinced this will have large repercussions on an army of emerging Chinese Android-based smartphone vendors who don’t think twice about making knock-off, me-too mobile phones.

More specifically, the name ZTE came to my mind. Now the fourth largest mobile phone vendor in the world, ZTE could be the next rival sued by Apple.

While ZTE still may not be a household name among consumers in the West, it is the first Chinese home-grown brand to truly go global.

Gartner’s latest market data shows that ZTE trailed only Samsung (No.1), Nokia (No.2) and Apple (No.3) in global sales of mobile devices [in units] in the second quarter of 2012. Moreover, since earlier this year, ZTE has made clear an ambitious plan to double its smartphone sales in 2012.


TAG:Apple Samsung China ZTE

ST forms joint venture with Chinese car maker

ST forms joint venture with Chinese car maker

LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) and Chinese automobile maker FAW Group Corp. (Changchun, China) have formed a joint laboratory to conduct research into multiple aspects of automotive electronics and develop components.

State-owned FAW is China's oldest vehicle maker and produces trucks, buses, special vehicles and sedans. It was established in 1953 and sold more than two million vehicles in 2011.

As part of the deal with ST FAW will adopt ST's microcontrollers (MCUs) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and software while the joint venture will research power train, chassis, safety, car body, car infotainment, and new-energy technologies, as well as other automotive applications.

ST's automotive portfolio includes PowerPC-based 32-bit microcontrollers and engine management systems. The ST/FAW lab is expected to develop ICs for engine control, transmission control and power steering.

China has been the world's largest automobile producer for the last three years, according to ST quoting Jun Li, director of the FAW R&D Center.


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Jury foreman in Apple vs. Samsung had 'light bulb moment'

Jury foreman in Apple vs. Samsung had 'light bulb moment'

SAN JOSE, Calif. – As foreman of the jury that awarded Apple just over $1 billion in its patent infringement suit against Samsung, Velvin R. Hogan returned time and again to his experience as an electrical engineer. Now at the center of a media blitz, Hogan, who holds two of his own patents, talked at length about the case he calls the highlight of his career, one idea sometimes flowing into the next.

The jury “got hung up the first day” debating the validity of one of Apple’s patents, “so I said let’s leave it for tonight,” he said Monday (Aug. 27) in an interview with EE Times.

In days of testimony, lawyers for both sides presented world-class experts who showed multiple pieces of what they claimed were prior art invalidating each other’s patents. “When I got home I was watching a movie on TV, but not really watching it because my mind was going 90 miles an hour thinking about this patent, claim by claim,” he recalled.

“My light bulb moment came that Wednesday night when I asked myself if I could defend [the Apple ‘381 software patent], and I realized I could, so in the morning I explained this to my fellow jurors,” the 67-year-old Hogan said.

After that, the group fairly quickly found all the Apple and Samsung patents in the case were valid. As instructed the jury then considered Samsung devices one by one, deciding that most of them willfully infringed Apple’s patents and trade dress, or look and feel, levying $1.05 billion in damages on Samsung.

Hogan’s “light-bulb moment” was a flashback to his experience defending his patent on an alternative to the MPEG 4 Part 10 video codec.

The patent “took seven years to be granted—the last three-and-a-half years debating with the patent examiner my claims, and ultimately I won. I learned in that exercise what’s needed to defend a patent against prior art,” he said.

Hogan spent much of his 40+ year career building test equipment and servo components for the emerging hard disk drive industry. He refused to join Samsung’s lawyers and some observers who scoffed at Apple’s claims on the industrial design of iPhones and the look and feel of their user interfaces.

“If you accept the premise of intellectual property--regardless of what it is—it needs to be protected,” he said.

“I confess a few years ago when Congress let the patent office authorize trade dress and design patents I was quite frankly not sure it was the right thing to do, but after being in this trial my position changed--IP needs to be protected if it is legitimate,” he said.
Next: A message to the industry
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Jury foreman in Apple vs. Samsung had 'light bulb moment'

Jury foreman in Apple vs. Samsung had 'light bulb moment'

SAN JOSE, Calif. – As foreman of the jury that awarded Apple just over $1 billion in its patent infringement suit against Samsung, Velvin R. Hogan returned time and again to his experience as an electrical engineer. Now at the center of a media blitz, Hogan, who holds two of his own patents, talked at length about the case he calls the highlight of his career, one idea sometimes flowing into the next.

The jury “got hung up the first day” debating the validity of one of Apple’s patents, “so I said let’s leave it for tonight,” he said Monday (Aug. 27) in an interview with EE Times.

In days of testimony, lawyers for both sides presented world-class experts who showed multiple pieces of what they claimed were prior art invalidating each other’s patents. “When I got home I was watching a movie on TV, but not really watching it because my mind was going 90 miles an hour thinking about this patent, claim by claim,” he recalled.

“My light bulb moment came that Wednesday night when I asked myself if I could defend [the Apple ‘381 software patent], and I realized I could, so in the morning I explained this to my fellow jurors,” the 67-year-old Hogan said.

After that, the group fairly quickly found all the Apple and Samsung patents in the case were valid. As instructed the jury then considered Samsung devices one by one, deciding that most of them willfully infringed Apple’s patents and trade dress, or look and feel, levying $1.05 billion in damages on Samsung.

Hogan’s “light-bulb moment” was a flashback to his experience defending his patent on an alternative to the MPEG 4 Part 10 video codec.

The patent “took seven years to be granted—the last three-and-a-half years debating with the patent examiner my claims, and ultimately I won. I learned in that exercise what’s needed to defend a patent against prior art,” he said.

Hogan spent much of his 40+ year career building test equipment and servo components for the emerging hard disk drive industry. He refused to join Samsung’s lawyers and some observers who scoffed at Apple’s claims on the industrial design of iPhones and the look and feel of their user interfaces.

“If you accept the premise of intellectual property--regardless of what it is—it needs to be protected,” he said.

“I confess a few years ago when Congress let the patent office authorize trade dress and design patents I was quite frankly not sure it was the right thing to do, but after being in this trial my position changed--IP needs to be protected if it is legitimate,” he said.
Next: A message to the industry
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TSMC joins multibeam mask-writing club

TSMC joins multibeam mask-writing club

LONDON – Leading foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has joined a multibeam mask writer development consortium hosted by IMS Nanofabrication AG (Vienna, Austria). TSMC joins founder members Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (DNP), Intel, and Photronics Inc.

The purpose of the collaborative program is to develop a multibeam electron-beam mask writer for use in advanced mask lithography applications below 10-nm while achieving high throughput.

The program is nearing the completion of a proof-of-concept phase and the upcoming phase of the collaboration will focus on the design and construction of an alpha and beta version of the multi-beam mask writer, IMS said.

"We are very encouraged by this partnership's goal of producing a mask writer with both accuracy and high productivity around 2015 for nodes beyond 10 nanometers. This project shows great potential for producing that breakthrough," said C.S. Yoo, head of e-beam operations at TSMC, in a statement issued by IMS.

No indication was given with regard to any financial commitment by TSMC or by the founding members.


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TSMC joins multibeam mask-writing club

TSMC joins multibeam mask-writing club

LONDON – Leading foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has joined a multibeam mask writer development consortium hosted by IMS Nanofabrication AG (Vienna, Austria). TSMC joins founder members Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. (DNP), Intel, and Photronics Inc.

The purpose of the collaborative program is to develop a multibeam electron-beam mask writer for use in advanced mask lithography applications below 10-nm while achieving high throughput.

The program is nearing the completion of a proof-of-concept phase and the upcoming phase of the collaboration will focus on the design and construction of an alpha and beta version of the multi-beam mask writer, IMS said.

"We are very encouraged by this partnership's goal of producing a mask writer with both accuracy and high productivity around 2015 for nodes beyond 10 nanometers. This project shows great potential for producing that breakthrough," said C.S. Yoo, head of e-beam operations at TSMC, in a statement issued by IMS.

No indication was given with regard to any financial commitment by TSMC or by the founding members.


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STATS ChipPAC qualifies TSV process

STATS ChipPAC qualifies TSV process

LONDON – Singaporean chip packaging and test company STATS ChipPAC Ltd. has announced it has "qualified" 300-mm mid- and back-end manufacturing using a through-silicon-via (TSV) process allowing it to increase its 2.5- and 3-D packaging integration.

STATS ChipPAC said it is working with multiple customers on TSV particularly in the mobile, wireless and networking market segments. The company's current 3-D TSV qualification includes 28-nm silicon optimized for the wide I/O memory interface.

STATS ChipPAC already offers 2.5- and 3-D TSV back-end of line (BEOL) integration based on 200-mm wafers. Since April 2011 the company has been developing mid-end of line (MEOL) for 300-mm wafers.

"We now have mid-end manufacturing capacity in place in Singapore and are actively engaged with multiple strategic customers on the production qualification of 2.5D and 3D packaging designs," said Han Byung Joon, CTO of STATS ChipPAC, in a statement.


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Yoshida in China: Fallout of Apple-Samsung lawsuit

Yoshida in China: Fallout of Apple-Samsung lawsuit

While Apple’s victory in the landmark Apple vs Samsung patent lawsuit dominated the news cycle over the weekend in the Western media, the story got more or less a subdued, understated treatment — buried deep inside the business section — in the China Daily.

Nobody should be surprised at this treatment of a matter on “non-Chinese” news. Yet I confess that I kept looking for reaction stories on the topic in the Chinese media, because I am convinced this will have large repercussions on an army of emerging Chinese Android-based smartphone vendors who don’t think twice about making knock-off, me-too mobile phones.

More specifically, the name ZTE came to my mind. Now the fourth largest mobile phone vendor in the world, ZTE could be the next rival sued by Apple.

While ZTE still may not be a household name among consumers in the West, it is the first Chinese home-grown brand to truly go global.

Gartner’s latest market data shows that ZTE trailed only Samsung (No.1), Nokia (No.2) and Apple (No.3) in global sales of mobile devices [in units] in the second quarter of 2012. Moreover, since earlier this year, ZTE has made clear an ambitious plan to double its smartphone sales in 2012.


TAG:Apple Samsung China ZTE

Yoshida in China: Fallout of Apple-Samsung lawsuit

Yoshida in China: Fallout of Apple-Samsung lawsuit

While Apple’s victory in the landmark Apple vs Samsung patent lawsuit dominated the news cycle over the weekend in the Western media, the story got more or less a subdued, understated treatment — buried deep inside the business section — in the China Daily.

Nobody should be surprised at this treatment of a matter on “non-Chinese” news. Yet I confess that I kept looking for reaction stories on the topic in the Chinese media, because I am convinced this will have large repercussions on an army of emerging Chinese Android-based smartphone vendors who don’t think twice about making knock-off, me-too mobile phones.

More specifically, the name ZTE came to my mind. Now the fourth largest mobile phone vendor in the world, ZTE could be the next rival sued by Apple.

While ZTE still may not be a household name among consumers in the West, it is the first Chinese home-grown brand to truly go global.

Gartner’s latest market data shows that ZTE trailed only Samsung (No.1), Nokia (No.2) and Apple (No.3) in global sales of mobile devices [in units] in the second quarter of 2012. Moreover, since earlier this year, ZTE has made clear an ambitious plan to double its smartphone sales in 2012.


TAG:Apple Samsung China ZTE

清宫藏翠：翠螭纹如意

清宫藏翠：翠螭纹如意

翠螭纹如意

　　翠螭纹如意,颜色较清,长47厘米,最宽10厘米.

　　翠质青绿,局部色较深.如意柄微弯成弓状,垂云式如意头,柄中部和头部均浮雕双螭.

　　螭纹是中国古代工艺品中常见的装饰,清代宫廷用品上往往以螭纹表示龙,此物之螭纹也呈龙的形象.所用翠料透明度高,绿色呈斑状,分布均匀,质地优良.

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STATS ChipPAC qualifies TSV process

STATS ChipPAC qualifies TSV process

LONDON – Singaporean chip packaging and test company STATS ChipPAC Ltd. has announced it has "qualified" 300-mm mid- and back-end manufacturing using a through-silicon-via (TSV) process allowing it to increase its 2.5- and 3-D packaging integration.

STATS ChipPAC said it is working with multiple customers on TSV particularly in the mobile, wireless and networking market segments. The company's current 3-D TSV qualification includes 28-nm silicon optimized for the wide I/O memory interface.

STATS ChipPAC already offers 2.5- and 3-D TSV back-end of line (BEOL) integration based on 200-mm wafers. Since April 2011 the company has been developing mid-end of line (MEOL) for 300-mm wafers.

"We now have mid-end manufacturing capacity in place in Singapore and are actively engaged with multiple strategic customers on the production qualification of 2.5D and 3D packaging designs," said Han Byung Joon, CTO of STATS ChipPAC, in a statement.


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European TSV summit planned

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TAG:through silicon via STATS ChipPAC Singapore semiconductor 3 D TSV

ST forms JV with Chinese car maker

ST forms JV with Chinese car maker

LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) and Chinese automobile maker FAW Group Corp. (Changchun, China) have formed a joint laboratory to conduct research into multiple aspects of automotive electronics and develop components.

State-owned FAW is China's oldest vehicle maker and produces trucks, buses, special vehicles and sedans. It was established in 1953 and sold more than two million vehicles in 2011.

As part of the deal with ST FAW will adopt ST's microcontrollers (MCUs) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and software while the joint venture will research power train, chassis, safety, car body, car infotainment, and new-energy technologies, as well as other automotive applications.

ST's automotive portfolio includes PowerPC-based 32-bit microcontrollers and engine management systems. The ST/FAW lab is expected to develop ICs for engine control, transmission control and power steering.

China has been the world's largest automobile producer for the last three years, according to ST quoting Jun Li, director of the FAW R&D Center.


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ST forms JV with Chinese car maker

ST forms JV with Chinese car maker

LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) and Chinese automobile maker FAW Group Corp. (Changchun, China) have formed a joint laboratory to conduct research into multiple aspects of automotive electronics and develop components.

State-owned FAW is China's oldest vehicle maker and produces trucks, buses, special vehicles and sedans. It was established in 1953 and sold more than two million vehicles in 2011.

As part of the deal with ST FAW will adopt ST's microcontrollers (MCUs) and application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and software while the joint venture will research power train, chassis, safety, car body, car infotainment, and new-energy technologies, as well as other automotive applications.

ST's automotive portfolio includes PowerPC-based 32-bit microcontrollers and engine management systems. The ST/FAW lab is expected to develop ICs for engine control, transmission control and power steering.

China has been the world's largest automobile producer for the last three years, according to ST quoting Jun Li, director of the FAW R&D Center.


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Automotive IC sales roll, vehicle content up to $350

U.S. test drives Wi-Fi to improve traffic safety

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TAG:STMicroelectronics ST FAW semiconductor Beijing China powertrain infotainment steering PowerPC MCU microcontroller

Russia backs e-beam lithography firm

Russia backs e-beam lithography firm

LONDON – Rusnano, the $10-billion nanotechnology investment arm of the Russian state, has led a round of financing into electron beam lithography equipment company Mapper Lithgraphy BV (Delft, The Netherlands). As part of the deal Rusnano's investment is set to be used to establish a manufacturing site in Russia for lens components for Mapper.

Rusnano is providing half of a funding round worth 80 million euro (about $100 million) that includes current shareholders, new investors and the Dutch government through innovation credits from AgentschapNL, Mapper said. The money is set to be used to build and ship several Matrix electron-beam lithography systems and create the manufacturing infrastructure capable of delivering at least 20 machines per year.

Mapper is a pioneer of a multi-beam form of e-beam lithography in which a direct-write e-beam is used to characterize chip resist and for which no mask is required. The use of a single e-beam requires an impractically long time to write a whole die and is the main reason e-beam lithography has been used mainly for R&D to date. However, Mapper has worked closely with leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and CEA-Leti (Grenoble, France) to develop the Matrix system, which can go up to 13,000 beams.

For now extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography remains the favored approach to high volume manufacture of chips with minimum geometries below 20-nm but e-beam lithography may yet have a role to play in mask preparation for EUV lithography. Multibeam e-beam maskless lithography is also being touted for low-volume production runs which would otherwise be dominated by mask costs. The e-beam technology combines high resolution and high productivity – up to 100 wafers per hour – with a lower cost in production, Mapper claims.

Rusnano will contribute 40 million euro (about $50 million). The remainder coming from current shareholders like ADP Industries, the investment vehicle of Arthur Del Prado, investment firm Parcom Capital, Hoving and Partners along with Dutch high-end technology suppliers Technolution and Demcon and innovation credits from AgentschapNL.

Rusnano has been investing in European and U.S. semiconductor and electronics startups in recent years and committed over a billion dollars in the last two years. Besides Mapper, Rusnano's investments include: magnetic RAM chip company Crocus Technologies Inc., organic backplane display company Plastic Logic Ltd., MEMS-based timing chip company SiTime Inc. and Wi-Fi chip company Quantenna.
Next: Three more years
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Counterpoint: Apple scores a Pyrrhic victory

Counterpoint: Apple scores a Pyrrhic victory

Apple has won a victory it may eventually regret. On Friday (Aug. 24), a California jury awarded Apple a tad over $1 billion in its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, which a jury found liable of "willful infringement" of Apple’s wireless patents.

Rick Merritt, my EE Times colleague who was in the San Jose courtroom throughout the trial, warns that "the Android community should be very afraid in the wake of Apple's clear win." Merritt argues that "Apple is now armed with a handful of proven weapons it can wield against Android competitors in and out of court on the industrial design of its iPhone and the user interface of both the iPhone and the iPad."

It may indeed be the case that Apple will go after many Google Android devices, using this verdict as a club to bludgeon other rivals into either withdrawing smartphones and tablets already in the market or agreeing to pay hefty royalties. Apple could also adopt the Windows mobile operating system, as Microsoft marketing executive Bill Cox tweeted after the Apple-Samsung verdict was announced.

It's more likely that Google will rework its Android operating system to avoid any of the patents involved in the Apple-Samsung tussle.

There are other reasons why Apple should hold off on uncorking the champagne. It has won this skirmish in the patent wars, but there are many more battles ahead. It is itself locked in other patent disputes, including a separate case with Google, which alleges Apple violated patents previously owned by Motorola Mobility. The unit is now part of Google. That case will take months if not years to play out.

The San Jose jury certainly won’t have the last word in the wireless patents battles. Last week, for example, a court in Seoul found both Apple and Samsung infringed each other's patents and ordered both to stop selling certain smartphones and tablets.

Next: Ticked off consumers
TAG:Patent Infringement Apple Samsung Patents Wireless IPhone

25th anniversary of flash memory sees 2.7ZB of data

25th anniversary of flash memory sees 2.7ZB of data

SanDisk is marking the 25th anniversary of flash memory technology, pointing out that 2.7 zettabytes (ZB) of data will be created and consumed this year and tripling to 8ZB by 2015.

Companies such as SanDisk have increased the capacity of flash memory by 30,000 times while decreasing its cost by 50,000 times over the past two decades. SanDisk’s first product, a 20 megabyte solid state drive (SSD), sold for $1,000 in 1991 but would cost only two cents today. This has driven the wide adoption of flash memory and enabled the smart digital lifestyle of anywhere, anytime access to digital content. Flash memory fuels the three forces behind this trend – mobile computing, pervasive connectivity and the proliferation of digital content.

“We started SanDisk in 1988 with the belief that flash memory would enable entire industries and enrich the lives of billions of people,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, president, chief executive officer and co-founder of SanDisk. “Demand for flash is greater than ever, and it’s an exciting time to lead an industry that holds such tremendous potential for the future.”

“Fifty years from now, people will look back and realize that flash memory was one of the most important technology advances of our time,” said Tim Bajarin, analyst and futurist, Creative Strategies. “For companies around the world, flash memory has revolutionized their business from how they design products to how their customers use them.”

This year, individuals will create and consume 2.7 zettabytes (ZB) (2700Tbytes) of digital content such as movies, music, documents and other data, according to market researchers IDC. This represents 20 times the amount of digital content from 2005.

“Flash memory plays a crucial role in enabling the content boom due to its low cost, ease of use and widespread adoption by consumers and professionals,” said Mario Morales, vice president, semiconductors and EMS, IDC. “Whether it’s a tablet that lets consumers access information on the go or the server behind a social media site, flash memory enables many of today’s most popular applications.”

Within three years the universe of digital content will nearly triple to 8ZB, according to IDC. Servers are increasingly storing and distributing this massive amount of information via social networks, business databases, streaming video services and other cloud-based applications. As digital content proliferates, IT organizations are equipping themselves with next-generation servers, aided by SSDs, in order to handle the rapidly increasing data.

“Flash memory has become pervasive in the cloud,” said Joseph Unsworth, research vice president at researchers Gartner. “Data centers using flash memory-based solid state drives offer an attractive benefit to cloud companies because SSDs offer the most cost-effective means for distributing information faster within existing infrastructure, often at orders of magnitude increase over HDD performance. These and other benefits are why we anticipate enterprise SSD unit sales to increase 250 percent within the next four years.”

This article originally appeared on the EE Times Europe website.
TAG:25th anniversary nand flash mobile memory flash memory nand flash memory sandisk

Counterpoint: Apple scores a Pyrrhic victory

Counterpoint: Apple scores a Pyrrhic victory

Apple has won a victory it may eventually regret. On Friday (Aug. 24), a California jury awarded Apple a tad over $1 billion in its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, which a jury found liable of "willful infringement" of Apple’s wireless patents.

Rick Merritt, my EE Times colleague who was in the San Jose courtroom throughout the trial, warns that "the Android community should be very afraid in the wake of Apple's clear win." Merritt argues that "Apple is now armed with a handful of proven weapons it can wield against Android competitors in and out of court on the industrial design of its iPhone and the user interface of both the iPhone and the iPad."

It may indeed be the case that Apple will go after many Google Android devices, using this verdict as a club to bludgeon other rivals into either withdrawing smartphones and tablets already in the market or agreeing to pay hefty royalties. Apple could also adopt the Windows mobile operating system, as Microsoft marketing executive Bill Cox tweeted after the Apple-Samsung verdict was announced.

It's more likely that Google will rework its Android operating system to avoid any of the patents involved in the Apple-Samsung tussle.

There are other reasons why Apple should hold off on uncorking the champagne. It has won this skirmish in the patent wars, but there are many more battles ahead. It is itself locked in other patent disputes, including a separate case with Google, which alleges Apple violated patents previously owned by Motorola Mobility. The unit is now part of Google. That case will take months if not years to play out.

The San Jose jury certainly won’t have the last word in the wireless patents battles. Last week, for example, a court in Seoul found both Apple and Samsung infringed each other's patents and ordered both to stop selling certain smartphones and tablets.

Next: Ticked off consumers
TAG:Patent Infringement Apple Samsung Patents Wireless IPhone

25th anniversary of flash memory sees 2.7ZB of data

25th anniversary of flash memory sees 2.7ZB of data

SanDisk is marking the 25th anniversary of flash memory technology, pointing out that 2.7 zettabytes (ZB) of data will be created and consumed this year and tripling to 8ZB by 2015.

Companies such as SanDisk have increased the capacity of flash memory by 30,000 times while decreasing its cost by 50,000 times over the past two decades. SanDisk’s first product, a 20 megabyte solid state drive (SSD), sold for $1,000 in 1991 but would cost only two cents today. This has driven the wide adoption of flash memory and enabled the smart digital lifestyle of anywhere, anytime access to digital content. Flash memory fuels the three forces behind this trend – mobile computing, pervasive connectivity and the proliferation of digital content.

“We started SanDisk in 1988 with the belief that flash memory would enable entire industries and enrich the lives of billions of people,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, president, chief executive officer and co-founder of SanDisk. “Demand for flash is greater than ever, and it’s an exciting time to lead an industry that holds such tremendous potential for the future.”

“Fifty years from now, people will look back and realize that flash memory was one of the most important technology advances of our time,” said Tim Bajarin, analyst and futurist, Creative Strategies. “For companies around the world, flash memory has revolutionized their business from how they design products to how their customers use them.”

This year, individuals will create and consume 2.7 zettabytes (ZB) (2700Tbytes) of digital content such as movies, music, documents and other data, according to market researchers IDC. This represents 20 times the amount of digital content from 2005.

“Flash memory plays a crucial role in enabling the content boom due to its low cost, ease of use and widespread adoption by consumers and professionals,” said Mario Morales, vice president, semiconductors and EMS, IDC. “Whether it’s a tablet that lets consumers access information on the go or the server behind a social media site, flash memory enables many of today’s most popular applications.”

Within three years the universe of digital content will nearly triple to 8ZB, according to IDC. Servers are increasingly storing and distributing this massive amount of information via social networks, business databases, streaming video services and other cloud-based applications. As digital content proliferates, IT organizations are equipping themselves with next-generation servers, aided by SSDs, in order to handle the rapidly increasing data.

“Flash memory has become pervasive in the cloud,” said Joseph Unsworth, research vice president at researchers Gartner. “Data centers using flash memory-based solid state drives offer an attractive benefit to cloud companies because SSDs offer the most cost-effective means for distributing information faster within existing infrastructure, often at orders of magnitude increase over HDD performance. These and other benefits are why we anticipate enterprise SSD unit sales to increase 250 percent within the next four years.”

This article originally appeared on the EE Times Europe website.
TAG:25th anniversary nand flash mobile memory flash memory nand flash memory sandisk

近200件玉雕精品入围云南玉雕大师作品展

近200件玉雕精品入围云南玉雕大师作品展

　　中新网昆明8月27日电(记者 胡远航)记者27日从2012云南玉雕大师作品展组委会获悉,本次作品展作品征集工作已基本结束,近200件玉雕精品入围.相比往届,此次作品展涌现大批新秀,参展作品更具创意.

　　据介绍,在为期半个月的作品征集过程中,组委会走进了腾冲、龙陵、芒市、瑞丽等玉石集散地寻找玉雕大师和新秀.活动吸引了腾冲的林志勇、芒市的华国津、瑞丽的李安等为代表的70多位玉雕师携新作前来参加,共征集到作品近200件.

　　其中,玉雕大师林志勇的参展作品《真理》为一尊三彩翡翠佛像,佛脸已随着岁月风化,残破不堪,但面部表情依然宁静、平和.华国津的参展作品《对话》,为一只青椒形壶身、两只鸟为壶盖的鼻烟壶.该作品集翡翠与黄龙玉于一身,表现对话之意,寓意着翡翠与黄龙玉有着密不可分的关系,以及人与人之间的情感联系.

　　组委会表示,相比去年,本届作品展的参展作品更具创意,雕刻工艺也更为精湛.此外,在此次征集活动中涌现出一大批玉雕新秀,如尹昭雄、向远辉、李安、董春玉等,这些玉雕新秀的作品将为本届作品展注入新鲜血液.

　　玉雕大师作品展是云南最具影响力的玉雕盛会,将于9月14日在昆明泛亚联合产权交易所开幕.活动期间,作品展、玉雕文化论坛、玉雕大师与国画大师对话、玉雕艺术品金融合作研讨会、“彩云杯”云南优秀玉雕作品评选、翡翠精品展销等活动将相继举行.(完)

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苏帮玉雕亮相东北亚宝玉石文化节

苏帮玉雕亮相东北亚宝玉石文化节

　　由黑龙江省政府、中国珠宝玉石首饰行业协会、江苏省珠宝玉石行业协会主办,东宁县政府、苏州市玉石文化行业协会承办的东宁东北亚宝玉石文化节昨天在“黑龙江省宝玉石产业基地”东宁举行.

　　由黑龙江省政府、中国珠宝玉石首饰行业协会、江苏省珠宝玉石行业协会主办,东宁县政府、苏州市玉石文化行业协会承办的东宁东北亚宝玉石文化节昨天在“黑龙江省宝玉石产业基地”东宁举行.来自中、俄、朝、蒙等国的宝玉石矿主、毛料经销商、加工企业、成品经销商和中国宝玉石协会等30多个行业协会及北京、上海、广东、香港、台湾等八方来客汇聚于此,共同领略宝玉石文化的无穷魅力,谋求宝玉石产业的发展商机.

　　在本届宝玉石文化节上,相继举行了中俄文艺交流演出,300吨俄、朝、蒙国际宝玉石毛料公盘、成品展；中国玉石雕刻发展论坛,宝玉石收藏品拍卖会,五吨翡翠原料赌石,千幅宝玉石、佛教文化图片展和世界最大翡翠玉观音现像法会等系列活动.最为抢眼的是作为承办方之一的苏州市玉石文化行业协会携带的400多件苏帮玉雕精品在中央展示大厅格外醒目.中国玉雕艺术大师、中国青年玉(石)雕刻大师范同生的《学业有成》惊艳四座,这是一件2011年中国工艺美术“百花奖”上的金奖作品.中国青年玉(石)雕刻艺术家、中国工艺品雕刻工艺师、中国工艺美术师侯晓峰设计精巧的《佛满人间》玉牌,雕刻细腻的线条,让玉雕作品更灵动、圆润.还有中国工艺美术师、中国工艺美术学会会员、苏州青年玉雕家胡锡涛“巧、雅、文、细、灵”的巧雕作品；陈华、裘军毅、吕德、黄盖、刘国平等苏州二十多位玉雕大师的一件件精美绝伦的玉雕精品吸引了众多游客驻足观看,成为文化节上一大亮点.

　　东宁县位于黑龙江省东南部,处于中、俄、朝三国交界地带,建有中俄陆路口岸,是东北三省唯一进口钻石、宝石和玉石的专业口岸,国家海关总署在口岸设立了宝玉石进口保税仓库,已有200余吨毛料交易纪录,可谓是中国北方的“玉门关”.

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Finally, a hardware accelerator: Bolt's Ben Einstein on a leg up for startups

Finally, a hardware accelerator: Bolt's Ben Einstein on a leg up for startups

Experienced product designer and entrepreneur Ben Einsteinis part of a team in Boston looking to give hardware startupstheir fair share of the glory. Bolt,a new accelerator program that Einstein cofounded, aims to be atool kit for hardware start-ups rather than for software and Web-servicescompanies—popular draws for talent and investment thatin the current environment have more support at their disposal.Einstein recently spoke to EDN about what Bolt is, what types ofyoung companies it is looking for, and why the focus is on hardware.

Tell us what Bolt is all about.

A: We focus on the startupcommunity. We’rebasically an accelerator programdesigned to help hardwarecompanies. The generalpremise is that if you arebuilding a software company,there are so many resourcesavailable that are incrediblyuseful—software review, mentoringprograms—and raisingmoney is often fairly easybecause there is so muchawareness and popularity inthe space. Bolt is explicitlybuilt from the ground up to dosimilar things, but for hardwarecompanies.

Bolt's Ben Einstein

We have prototyping facilitiesand a full-time engineeringstaff; we help people goto Asia for manufacturing andtooling; we know how to talkto buyers. We have an openapplication process; anyonefrom anywhere in the worldcan apply. We will acceptbetween 10 and 12 teamsevery six months and givethem a little seed capital tohelp keep them alive.

Why focus on physical productsas opposed to softwareor an app?

A: There are maybe 150[support programs] forsoftware in the US [alone].And there’s this device phenomenonthat is about toexplode. [The targeted] companiesact like software companiesin terms of their revenuestructure, the kinds offounders they attract, the waythe IP is locked up, but theytend to have a piece of hardwarethat is sort of a barrier toentry.

There’s a phrase that isthrown around, “softwarewrapped in plastic,” which iswhat some of these companiesbegin to look like. Theyhave a relatively simple pieceof hardware, but it ends upenabling a new set of functionalityand user applications [sothat they] work like softwarecompanies; they have reoccurringrevenue streams, multipleproducts around one pieceof hardware, and reoccurringinteractions with customers.

There’s also [the fact that]these hardware companiesaren’t being helped at all. It’svery difficult for some of theseyoung companies to get thetools and systems they needto get to market, whereas inthe app world a lot of that ispretty easy to come by. Weare trying to leverage that.

Doing manufacturing isn't necessarily hard, but a lot of people that these young companies are approaching for advice are not the people who know how to make hardware, and that makes it more frustrating for them.

What are you looking for?

A: Great teams, but we arereally looking for greatpeople. The [online] applicationis tailored to find teamsof great people. It’s really simple;it’s not designed to be abusiness plan.

You are obviously big on prototyping, then.

A: Of course.

When it comes to prototyping,what can an entrepreneurialengineer learn froma company like Dyson oriRobot or other former start-upsthat showed distinct,difficult, or maybe riskydesigns in their beginnings?

A: That's one of these unfortunate things in the product-development world—these phantom or ghost products that wind up being showcased in some sort of great way for design but never end up making it to production. Dyson is very good with that; they are one of the companies that demonstrated a lot of their prototypes.

Bolt is based on buildingmarkets and helpingpeople find their way along thepath of building a product. It’sless about the sexy, sleek prototypethat people are reallyattracted to. The MVP—minimum viable product—approach involves doing as littleas possible to prove thatsomebody really likes what youare doing. It’s part of the leanstart-up movement ... andinvolves growing the companyaround a core group of usersand satisfying that need.

We take a similar approachwhen building products. When it comes to actual physical prototyping, we do a pretty significant amount of that and have an in-house prototyping facility, so people can assemble and tweak as needed.

What are your thoughts on 3-D printers?

A: 3-D printers are great. They’ve fallen dramatically in price in the last decade. They are unbelievably useful for certain things, but they are a little oversold. We use [the 3-D printer] as a fantastic tool for rapid prototype development, but it’s not [yet the] fantastic tool for production of millions of units of things that people say it may be one day. It may be one day, but the technology really doesn’t exist yet to be even close to cost-competitive with injection molding or other high-end volume production techniques.

When people think aboutstartups, they think abouttwenty-somethings justout of school. Do you seeopportunities for moreexperienced engineers?

A: We expect a good portionof our applicants tobe in that [younger] category.But the other category is thefrustrated engineers who areat a company like Apple orMotorola and have sort ofbeen in their middle positionand chugging along but feelthat they want to be more creativeand try out their ownconcept. Those [engineers]are really attractive to us. Theonly trick is that we are notproviding enough capital toprovide for families when thebusiness is getting started.They have to be able to basicallysurvive on their own forsix months or so.

We expect that a smallerpool of the applicants wouldbe these kinds of guys, butwe encourage them to apply.You have to have a certainkind of crazy to start a company,especially in hardware,and that tends to be beatenout of people as they getolder. But their experience[can be] incredibly valuable.Even if they are not leading thecharge, it’s great to have themon a team with two or threeyounger guys.

Einstein will be presentingat next month’s Design Eastconference, hosted by UBM.Register and get moreinformation at http://east.ubmdesign.com.

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Apple vs. Samsung questions on the Monday after

Apple vs. Samsung questions on the Monday after

I was out on a date recently (Note: Mature, handsome tech reporter available for dating in San Jose) and my date showed me her new Samsung SIII smartphone. I couldn’t resist testing to see whether it still used the bounce-back feature described in Apple’s ‘381 patent.

Nope.

That’s what you might call a workaround.

I suspect there will be a number of Monday morning phone calls today, given the landmark $1.05 billion verdict for Apple in its suit with Samsung announced late Friday. Some of those calls, I suspect will be smartphone product managers calling down to engineering or up to legal to see if they need any of a half dozen workarounds to stay clear of similar suits from Cupertino.

In some of those calls, I suspect there will be discussion about use of Windows Phone as a safe harbor during the ongoing mobile patent wars in which this case just landed a few hits on the dominant Android camp. At the end of the day, I don’t expect Microsoft will get many Android refugees.

I suspect there may be some other calls, too. They may not come Monday morning, but they will come from Apple’s legal team calling its counterparts at its top competitors. They may inform them the price of that license-in-negotiation has gone up.

No doubt there will be a few water cooler conversations, too. Some will rag on Apple, others on Samsung for any of a billion reasons. At the end of the day, I wonder how those conversations may affect—if at all—smartphone and tablet buying plans.

Will more people buy iPhones and iPads to show their support for the company that claimed it helped invent the modern cellphone and tablet? Or will purchases of Galaxy handsets and tabs go up in sympathy with what some may see as a (very big) underdog beaten down by the world’s most valuable company—with a hubris to match its market value?

Certainly some techno-phobes will call their geeky friends—some of whom may be engineers—to ask which products they should buy. Was Samsung the bad guy? Or was it Apple? What would you tell them?

Casual buyers may be confused about what it all means. I suspect there will be more than a few patent-savvy engineers who will shake their heads as they read the latest blogs this morning, just as unsure what to make of it all.

Think you know what in the end it all means for the industry, the mobile engineer and/or Joe Consumer? Share your thoughts below.

Not sure and want to study some of the documents and stories of the trial. Check out our coverage here.
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Fujitsu settles patent case with Acacia Research

Fujitsu settles patent case with Acacia Research

SAN FRANCISCO—Acacia Research Corp., a patent portfolio holder and licensor, said Monday (Aug. 27) that it entered into a settlement agreement with Japan's Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. and its U.S. subsidiary resolving pending patent litigation.

Acacia (Newport Beach, Calif.) did not disclose terms of the settlement. The settlement resolves litigation that was pending in U.S. District Court in northern California, Acacia said.

According to a report by Engadget.com, the patents involved in the dispute are related to flash memory and RAM technologies.

Related stories:

• Mentor offshoot nurtures European startups
• IP trolling firms make more waves
• Acacia, Hynix reach settlement
• Renesas assigns patents to Acacia for licensing

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Cypress again ups ante for Ramtron

Cypress again ups ante for Ramtron

SAN FRANCISCO—Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said Monday (Aug. 27) it increased its offer to acquire FRAM vendor Ramtron International Corp. for a second time.

Cypress (San Jose, Calif.) said it increased its all-cash offer for Ramtron to $2.88 per share, or around $100 million.

Previously Cypress had offered $2.68 per share and, before that, $2.48 per share to acquire Ramtron (Colorado Springs, Colo.). Last year, Cypress offered to acquire Ramtron for $3.01 per share.

According to Cypress, the new offer represents a 59 percent premium over Ramtron's closing price of $1.81 per share on June 11, the day before Cypress publicly disclosed its offer for Ramtron.

Ramtron's board of directors last month rejected the $2.68 per share offer from Cypress and said it entered discussions with "major semiconductor companies" about a potential strategic transaction.

Cypress's latest tender offer for Ramtron shares is scheduled to expire at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Sept. 11. Cypress has extended the deadline for the offer several times.

In a statement, T.J. Rodgers, Cypress president and CEO, said his firm is now in discussions with Ramtron's financial advisors. "We are increasing our offer to $2.88 per share in the hopes of completing a transaction quickly, which we believe is in the best interest of Cypress, as well as Ramtron's stockholders," Rodgers said.

Related stories:

• Cypress, Ramtron continue standoff
• Chipmaker Ramtron posts lower revenue, shares fall ‎
• Ramtron extends Fram agreement with Rohm
• Ramtron rejects Cypress again, in talks with others
• Cypress ups offer for Ramtron
• Ramtron rejects Cypress Semi offer

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宝玉石投资收藏懂行才行

宝玉石投资收藏懂行才行

　　珠宝玉石投资虽然升值可观,但其品鉴也需要一定的专业水准,因此,珠宝专家也提醒大家,由于风险比较大投资者应理性介入.

　　目前,珠宝消费已经成为继住房、汽车之后市场上的第三大消费热点,由于价值不封项以及易于保存等特点,高端的珠宝玉石投资逐渐成为一种新的理财方式.专家分析,目前市场主要以两端消费为主,低档的珠宝首饰以及价高稀少珠宝成为市场上的主力产品,打算做收藏投资的可以考虑翡翠以及一些新兴的高端珠宝.

　　而由于目前国内珠宝的短期变现渠道狭窄,专家也提醒,投资者应理性对待.同时专家也提醒,投资收藏珠宝玉石首先讲究喜欢,其次必须具备专业知识,珠宝玉石本身的特性及市场需求特点,决定了投资不可能当场见效,需要好的心态做好长线投资的准备.

　　这是山西台报道的.

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Fujitsu settles patent case with Acacia Research

Fujitsu settles patent case with Acacia Research

SAN FRANCISCO—Acacia Research Corp., a patent portfolio holder and licensor, said Monday (Aug. 27) that it entered into a settlement agreement with Japan's Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. and its U.S. subsidiary resolving pending patent litigation.

Acacia (Newport Beach, Calif.) did not disclose terms of the settlement. The settlement resolves litigation that was pending in U.S. District Court in northern California, Acacia said.

According to a report by Engadget.com, the patents involved in the dispute are related to flash memory and RAM technologies.


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西洋古董存世量大假货少投资收藏走热

西洋古董存世量大假货少投资收藏走热

　　“现在正是收藏西洋古董的好时机！”收藏界人士王元中认为,中国文物经过几次浩劫,好东西虽然不少,但是真正在市场中流通的已经很少了.而西洋古董由于毁坏的少,存世量比较多.其次,在20世纪初叶,西洋的文物制作工艺,比如瓷器,已经超过了中国.另外,西方的人工十分昂贵,要造一个赝品往往比真品还要贵,所以收藏起来也比较放心.比如水晶、银器等,都十分容易辨别.

　　“国人在西洋古董收藏方面,主要集中在钟表、家具、瓷器、银器、玻璃器等.目前,在北京、上海、苏杭等地正刮起一股西洋古董收藏风.”广东省收藏家协会副主席、第16届广州艺博会策划总监陈庆彰举例介绍:“中国家具,首先讲究材质.而欧洲古董家具则以雕工精致、设计独特见长.”

　　“当然,整体来说,材质、手工、年代等,都是西洋古董的价值决定因素.”陈庆彰补充:“材质越高级,手工难度越大,年代越久远且保存完整良好的西洋古董更具收藏价值,一般来说,宫廷或贵族所使用的精玩旧物更加金贵,也更受追捧.”

　　欧洲宫廷贵族用品更金贵

　　“以欧洲宫廷贵族扇为例,至今已有几百年历史,文化底蕴深厚,素来是身份、地位和尊贵的象征.历史上著名的玛丽女王、维多利亚女王都是有名的‘扇子迷’.此外,法国作家伏尔泰曾说‘不拿扇子的女士犹如不拿剑的男子’,可见扇子的风行之盛.”

　　据介绍,西洋扇子用各种珍贵材料制成,扇骨以黄金、象牙、龟甲、珠母等来制作,扇面则用真皮、纸张、绸缎、花边和羽毛制成,上面往往还装饰有珍贵的金属和宝石.记者率先探营所见,本次亮相广州艺博会拍坛的最金贵的一把扇子,是十九世纪初制作的象牙镂刻镶金贝手绘人物折扇,估价为16万元~25万元.此外,被誉为“瓷器界劳斯莱斯”的德国Meissen(梅森)瓷盘也同样非常吸引.

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清代宫廷翡翠精品《翠花鸟花插》

清代宫廷翡翠精品《翠花鸟花插》

翠花鸟花插

　　翠花鸟花插,清,高25厘米,口径5.9×8厘米.

　　翠呈青绿色,局部有深绿及黄褐色.花插较高,呈树桩形,主杆粗大,内可插物.花插的外壁 镂雕牡丹花枝,枝上立着禽鸟.下配以镂空雕花红木座.

　　花插属陈设用品,内可插物.明代玉器中已有花插,多呈筒状.清代的玉花插样式较多,其中树桩形花插较为典型.这件花插所用翠料有较高的透明度,局部绿色深重,属高档材料,是清代宫廷的重要陈设器.

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Finally, a hardware accelerator: Bolt's Ben Einstein on a leg up for startups

Finally, a hardware accelerator: Bolt's Ben Einstein on a leg up for startups

Experienced product designer and entrepreneur Ben Einsteinis part of a team in Boston looking to give hardware startupstheir fair share of the glory. Bolt,a new accelerator program that Einstein cofounded, aims to be atool kit for hardware start-ups rather than for software and Web-servicescompanies—popular draws for talent and investment thatin the current environment have more support at their disposal.Einstein recently spoke to EDN about what Bolt is, what types ofyoung companies it is looking for, and why the focus is on hardware.

Tell us what Bolt is all about.

A: We focus on the startupcommunity. We’rebasically an accelerator programdesigned to help hardwarecompanies. The generalpremise is that if you arebuilding a software company,there are so many resourcesavailable that are incrediblyuseful—software review, mentoringprograms—and raisingmoney is often fairly easybecause there is so muchawareness and popularity inthe space. Bolt is explicitlybuilt from the ground up to dosimilar things, but for hardwarecompanies.

Bolt's Ben Einstein

We have prototyping facilitiesand a full-time engineeringstaff; we help people goto Asia for manufacturing andtooling; we know how to talkto buyers. We have an openapplication process; anyonefrom anywhere in the worldcan apply. We will acceptbetween 10 and 12 teamsevery six months and givethem a little seed capital tohelp keep them alive.

Why focus on physical productsas opposed to softwareor an app?

A: There are maybe 150[support programs] forsoftware in the US [alone].And there’s this device phenomenonthat is about toexplode. [The targeted] companiesact like software companiesin terms of their revenuestructure, the kinds offounders they attract, the waythe IP is locked up, but theytend to have a piece of hardwarethat is sort of a barrier toentry.

There’s a phrase that isthrown around, “softwarewrapped in plastic,” which iswhat some of these companiesbegin to look like. Theyhave a relatively simple pieceof hardware, but it ends upenabling a new set of functionalityand user applications [sothat they] work like softwarecompanies; they have reoccurringrevenue streams, multipleproducts around one pieceof hardware, and reoccurringinteractions with customers.

There’s also [the fact that]these hardware companiesaren’t being helped at all. It’svery difficult for some of theseyoung companies to get thetools and systems they needto get to market, whereas inthe app world a lot of that ispretty easy to come by. Weare trying to leverage that.

Doing manufacturing isn't necessarily hard, but a lot of people that these young companies are approaching for advice are not the people who know how to make hardware, and that makes it more frustrating for them.

What are you looking for?

A: Great teams, but we arereally looking for greatpeople. The [online] applicationis tailored to find teamsof great people. It’s really simple;it’s not designed to be abusiness plan.

You are obviously big on prototyping, then.

A: Of course.

When it comes to prototyping,what can an entrepreneurialengineer learn froma company like Dyson oriRobot or other former start-upsthat showed distinct,difficult, or maybe riskydesigns in their beginnings?

A: That's one of these unfortunate things in the product-development world—these phantom or ghost products that wind up being showcased in some sort of great way for design but never end up making it to production. Dyson is very good with that; they are one of the companies that demonstrated a lot of their prototypes.

Bolt is based on buildingmarkets and helpingpeople find their way along thepath of building a product. It’sless about the sexy, sleek prototypethat people are reallyattracted to. The MVP—minimum viable product—approach involves doing as littleas possible to prove thatsomebody really likes what youare doing. It’s part of the leanstart-up movement ... andinvolves growing the companyaround a core group of usersand satisfying that need.

We take a similar approachwhen building products. When it comes to actual physical prototyping, we do a pretty significant amount of that and have an in-house prototyping facility, so people can assemble and tweak as needed.

What are your thoughts on 3-D printers?

A: 3-D printers are great. They’ve fallen dramatically in price in the last decade. They are unbelievably useful for certain things, but they are a little oversold. We use [the 3-D printer] as a fantastic tool for rapid prototype development, but it’s not [yet the] fantastic tool for production of millions of units of things that people say it may be one day. It may be one day, but the technology really doesn’t exist yet to be even close to cost-competitive with injection molding or other high-end volume production techniques.

When people think aboutstartups, they think abouttwenty-somethings justout of school. Do you seeopportunities for moreexperienced engineers?

A: We expect a good portionof our applicants tobe in that [younger] category.But the other category is thefrustrated engineers who areat a company like Apple orMotorola and have sort ofbeen in their middle positionand chugging along but feelthat they want to be more creativeand try out their ownconcept. Those [engineers]are really attractive to us. Theonly trick is that we are notproviding enough capital toprovide for families when thebusiness is getting started.They have to be able to basicallysurvive on their own forsix months or so.

We expect that a smallerpool of the applicants wouldbe these kinds of guys, butwe encourage them to apply.You have to have a certainkind of crazy to start a company,especially in hardware,and that tends to be beatenout of people as they getolder. But their experience[can be] incredibly valuable.Even if they are not leading thecharge, it’s great to have themon a team with two or threeyounger guys.

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Apple vs. Samsung questions on the Monday after

Apple vs. Samsung questions on the Monday after

I was out on a date recently (Note: Mature, handsome tech reporter available for dating in San Jose) and my date showed me her new Samsung SIII smartphone. I couldn’t resist testing to see whether it still used the bounce-back feature described in Apple’s ‘381 patent.

Nope.

That’s what you might call a workaround.

I suspect there will be a number of Monday morning phone calls today, given the landmark $1.05 billion verdict for Apple in its suit with Samsung announced late Friday. Some of those calls, I suspect will be smartphone product managers calling down to engineering or up to legal to see if they need any of a half dozen workarounds to stay clear of similar suits from Cupertino.

In some of those calls, I suspect there will be discussion about use of Windows Phone as a safe harbor during the ongoing mobile patent wars in which this case just landed a few hits on the dominant Android camp. At the end of the day, I don’t expect Microsoft will get many Android refugees.

I suspect there may be some other calls, too. They may not come Monday morning, but they will come from Apple’s legal team calling its counterparts at its top competitors. They may inform them the price of that license-in-negotiation has gone up.

No doubt there will be a few water cooler conversations, too. Some will rag on Apple, others on Samsung for any of a billion reasons. At the end of the day, I wonder how those conversations may affect—if at all—smartphone and tablet buying plans.

Will more people buy iPhones and iPads to show their support for the company that claimed it helped invent the modern cellphone and tablet? Or will purchases of Galaxy handsets and tabs go up in sympathy with what some may see as a (very big) underdog beaten down by the world’s most valuable company—with a hubris to match its market value?

Certainly some techno-phobes will call their geeky friends—some of whom may be engineers—to ask which products they should buy. Was Samsung the bad guy? Or was it Apple? What would you tell them?

Casual buyers may be confused about what it all means. I suspect there will be more than a few patent-savvy engineers who will shake their heads as they read the latest blogs this morning, just as unsure what to make of it all.

Think you know what in the end it all means for the industry, the mobile engineer and/or Joe Consumer? Share your thoughts below.

Not sure and want to study some of the documents and stories of the trial. Check out our coverage here.
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