PANASONIC DMC-TZ20GC
The Panasonic DMC-TZ20GC is an ideal choice for anyone looking for a basic good-quality compact camera. It has 16x optical zoom equipped with GPS and can record full HD Movies in AVCHD format, with shoot sharp images at 14.1 megapixels. The 24mm wide angle LEICA Dc lens, MOS Sensor and Venus Engine FHD are really cool features and the 3.0” smart touch screen adds another plus-point if considering this compact camera as your next travelling gadget. It’s available from Carrefour UAE for just AED 999 and comes with a free camera case and 4GB memory card.
NEWS & GOSSIP
ATIC and Saxony to open twin semiconductor labs
Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Investment Company and the state of Saxony in Germany have announced that they will open a pair of research labs focused on semi-conductor technologies.
The ‘Twin Labs’ project will see one lab located at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi and the other based at the Technische Universität Dresden.
The labs, which will host 10-12 graduate and PhD students, will focus on research around three-dimensional chip stacking, a potentially faster and more energy efficient semiconductor technology.
The Abu Dhabi lab will investigate the minimum-energy/low-power features of 3D-integrated microelectronics in a variety of computing, communication, storage and sensing design contexts. The Saxony facility will work on the interconnect aspects of 3D integration, especially the crucial role of TSV in the back-end-of-the-line structure of 3D-stacked chips. The goal is to develop modules (design blocks) for high-rate interfaces between multiple chips in a semiconductor chip-stack.
ATIC and Saxony will invest $2.4m in the plan over two years, which builds on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the two in 2010 to partner on technology development.
(Source: ITP)
MY FAV APP/ Sheeraz Ansari
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By Shahid Saeed
