Vertically integrated electronics firms will continue to off-load the production process (see Ghost cars, ghost brands).
Unlike Europe and America, where most electronics firms have split the design and manufacturing sides of their businesses and narrowed their focus, Japan still trudges on with five vertically integrated electronics giants.
The power electronics unit integrated in the engine compartment operates at a level of around 370V and manages the flow of high-voltage energy to and from the battery and the electric motors.
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Several such applications would be enabled by high-performance visibly transparent photovoltaic (PV) devices, including building-integrated photovoltaics and integrated PV chargers for portable electronics.
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When electronics companies do build integrated home theaters, they're generally on the lower end of the market.
The 7digital API is already used by numerous consumer electronics brands to create integrated digital music services for mobile devices, including Samsung, HTC, Acer and RIM.
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Many felt that because the new technology, called DIAL (short for Discovery and Launch), is an open standard and already being integrated by a number of large consumer electronics manufacturers, it would replace AirPlay and a similar technology called Miracast.
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Most electronics are made in the form of integrated circuits, which are tiny chips that contain transistors and other components etched onto silicon wafers.
"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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Flexible electronics will allow circuits, displays and solar captors to be integrated anywhere in the battle suit, including in the soldier's mask, as a transparent display.
TI's bq51050B is the industry's first Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) 1.1 Qi-compliant wireless power receiver with integrated direct battery charger, and enables faster, more efficient charging of smartphones, wireless keyboards and other portable electronics.
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