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Toshiba Eyes 50% Share of Notebook SSD Market in 2010 (May 9)
Atsutoshi Nishida, president and CEO of Toshiba Corp, expressed the company's commitment to solid state drive (SSD) with multi-level NAND flash memory at the corporate strategy meeting for fiscal 2008 in Tokyo on May 8, 2008.


Toshiba to Release Cell-Based TV in Fall 2009 (May 9)
Toshiba Corp President Atsutoshi Nishida revealed a plan to release a TV that features the "Cell" microprocessor and a notebook PC equipped with the "SpursEngine" media processor that inherits the Cell technology. He spoke at the company's management policy presentation for fiscal 2008 in Tokyo May 8, 2008.


Toyota Sales, Profits Hit Record Highs; Growth Slows (May 9)
"We were able to take advantage of the teamwork among marketing, production and development," said Katsuaki Watanabe, president of Toyota Motor Corp, at the company's results presentation for fiscal 2007 (from April 2007 to March 2008) in Tokyo May 8, 2008.


iPods, HDD Recorders Might Be Taxed in Japan for Copyright Holders (May 9)
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs proposed a tentative plan concerning the compensation for private music and video recordings at this year's second meeting of the Private Music and Video Recording Subcommittee May 8, 2008.


Firms Begin IP Retransmission of Digital Terrestrial Broadcasts in Japan (May 9)
I-Cast Inc and NTT Plala Inc will provide the digital terrestrial broadcast IP retransmission service for the subscribers to their video distribution service "Hikari (optical) TV," starting from May 9, 2008. It is the first commercial IP retransmission service in Japan.


3D Parts Integrated on Carbon-nanotube Wafer (May 9)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) manufactured integrated 3D carbon-nanotube components by using single-layer carbon nanotubes. A "carbon-nanotube wafer" developed by densely aligning carbon nanotubes enabled to use microfabrication techniques of lithography.


Breaking Down SoftBank's 'Internet Machine' [Part 2] (May 9)
Next, we inspected the board on the back side of the LCD panel and the chassis to examine the mechanism of the sensor key. A cross-shaped touch sensor was placed inside the chassis. As can be determined by the letters printed on its control IC, the sensor was presumably made by Alps Electric Co Ltd. We speculated that the touch sensor in the 921SH was also made by Alps.


Epson Develops Application Processor for Integrating Display, Interface Functions (May 9)
Seiko Epson Corp (Epson) has developed the S1C33L17, an application processor that is suitable for analog input large-screen LCD displays, portable devices and various interfaces which require high-level data processing and displays.


DuPont to Open R&D, Production Facilities for PV Solar Energy (May 9)
DuPont will soon begin construction of a research center in Hong Kong and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen to support the rapidly growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry.


Hynix, ProMOS Strengthen Long-Term Alliance (May 9)
Hynix Semiconductor Inc and ProMOS Technologies Inc have agreed to strengthen their existing strategic alliance.