Replacing expensive Cobalt with much cheaper Manganese as the electrode can lead to less expensive rechargeable Lithium batteries, Robert Armstrong and Peter Bruce, research chemists at the University of St Andrews, claim in the current Nature. However, success is still some way off and the main problem came in how many times the battery could be re-charged – We lose a lot of the capacity after the first charge, one of them told Reuter – admitting that It’s a fairly basic problem.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc has a new, much cheaper version of its wave table synthesis sound chip: the new InterWave LC costs $19.50 in quantities of 10,000 or more, which is about 33% less expensive than the previous wave-table chip.
The worldwide multimedia desktop PC market grew from 10.3 million units in 1994 to more than 20.8 million units in 1995 according to Dataquest. The US market grew 35%, Europe by 144% with Japan and Asia-Pacific growing 391%.
