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The Russian company “Rosnano” will invest 550 million rubles in the manufacturing of microsystems in St. Petersburg

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

GLONASS

 

The Russian factory of production of microsystems and detectors will appear to 2012. These detectors will be used in the navigational receivers GLONASS / GPS, in the mobiles and in the high-frequency digital broadcasting equipment. The Roslano firm is about to invest in the manufacturing 550 million rubles, so the total project’s budget is valued in 1.24 billion rubles. “The project’s output on the planned figures should appear in 2015” –said the corp..
It is planned that the main part of project’s revenue will be got from the sellings of energy-efficient and affordable systems, which have a big range of the operating temperatures. And these temperatures are used for checking the stress-strain state of the building structures. The security systems of gas-processing is going to have a high percentage of sales. In addition, the project corporation will carry out the production of microsystems which is the strong to the hard environmental conditions.
The initiator and co-investor of the project is the St. Petersburg firm “Avangard” and it intends to provide “the intellectual property in the patents, the know-hows and in the sets of design and technological documentation”. The organizers think to attract the professionals from main Russian scientific centers, especially – from the Kotelnikov’s Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, so they take part at the development of the new collection of micros.
Experts say that the world market’s volume of sensors and components was about $ 51 billion in 2008. And It is expected that if the growth rate is approximately five % per annum, the volume will reach $ sixty seven billion in 2018.

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The American Apple’s sale started

Monday, April 5th, 2010

iPadThe marketing of Apple iPad started on the third of April in the United State. The mechanism is sold at the Apple stores, as well as in the biggest electronics shopping centers “Best Buy”.
Ipads, which are now available in the market, have no admission to the GPS network and can’t connect to 3G. Nevertheless, lots of people had gathered at the Apple stores and “Best Buy” before the opening. Some of them got in line at the main New York Apple shops on Tuesday.
The admission of IPad pre-orders began in the U. S. A. On the 12th of March. According to the analysts, the consumers had already reserved the hundreds and thousands of the gizmos, although no one hadn’t even touched them. The iPad worth is 499 dollars for the 16-gigabyte iPad, 599 dollars for the 32-gigabyte and 699 dollars for the 64-gigabyte version.
Shortly before the opening of the sales more than 2300 IPad supplements came in the official Shop. On the average their price is higher than the iPod touch and iPhone apps are. However, the apps for iPod also act on the iPad, there are more than 150 thousands of these supplements in the shop.
The IPad tablet was presented by the Apple chief, Steve Jobs, on the 27th of January in 2010. The iPad is equipped with a multisensory screen with a diagonal in 9.7 inch and a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels. The iPad uses a mobile operating system iPhone OS.
In European Union and other countries, the sales are going to start in the last days of April. At the same time the IPad 3G-version will appear in the American shop.

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