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Posted In: development, photovoltaics, establish, center, within, plant, gifu, advanced, its, image, picture, pic, in, sanyo, to, japan by Alex

Sanyo announced today that it will establish a new ‘Advanced Photovoltaics Development Center’ within its Gifu Plant in Japan. The plant, located in Anpachi, Gifu prefecture, houses the Solar Ark, a large-scale solar power generation facility that stands as a monument to the world of Sanyo’s commitment and efforts to create a clean energy-based society. Sanyo is currently advancing the development of its solar technology, primarily focused on its proprietary HITsolar cells, at the Advanced Energy Research Center of R&D Headquarters and at the Solar Division of the Clean Energy Company. The ‘Advanced Photovoltaics Development Center’ will promote the development of next-generation thin-film silicon solar cells aiming at reducing the cost of solar power generation to match costs as low as electricity charges applied to home-use.

Aiming at a huge increase in sales, especially in the overseas market, Sanyo will invest 80 billion yen in HIT solar cells over the next three fiscal years and increase production capacity to 650 MW by FY2010, up 250% from the current amount.

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Posted In: broadcom, industry, encoder, bcm7043, most, transcoder, advanced, solution, hd, image, chip, pic, single, time, real, picture by Alex

Broadcom today announced the industry’s most advanced 65 nanometer (nm) real-time, high definition (HD) encoder/transcoder solution. The new single- chip transcoder BCM7043 enables a wide range of consumer devices, with varying video and audio formats, to share a wide variety of video and audio content while maintaining a high degree of digital rights management and security. The new chip BCM7043 is the foundation for capturing audio and video content and for reconciling disparate video and audio content in cable, satellite and IPTV set-top boxes, home media centers, portable media players, cell phones and a wide range of entertainment devices for the connected home.

The BCM7043 is a real-time high definition H.264/AVC, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4SP encoder and transcoder that is designed for use in cable, satellite, IP and terrestrial set-top boxes, home media centers, personal digital video recorders and HD DVD, Blu-ray, and DVD player/recorders.

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