After a Decade, Philips Makes PCs Again
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After an absence of a decade, Philips Electronics is making personal computers again, the company said on Thursday.  The Netherlands-based electronics conglomerate, which abandoned the PC business in the early 1990s after suffering big losses, quietly introduced six models together with British retailer Dixons earlier this week.
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The semiconductor unit of Philips Electronics is adopting a new name, NXP, and a new strategy to supply chips to the advanced electronics products market.
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Redmond, Wash., /PRNewswire/ - As gifts for loved ones or tools for getting organized in the new year, personal computers (PCs) are always popular items during the holiday gift-giving season.
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A new computer should deliver about 10 times the performance of a desktop personal computer.
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South Korea&#39;s LG.Philips LCD is out to impress at next week&#39;s Consumer Electronics Show and will unveil a 14.3-inch color electronic paper display.The display, which is about the same size as an A4-sheet of paper, has a resolution of 1,280 pixels by 800 pixels and can display 16.7-million colors, LG.Philips LCD said Thursday. That makes it the highest resolution screen of its type yet developed, the company said, and is an advance on a display unveiled in May last year that offered just 4,096 colors.Electronic paper is being pursued by many companies as a future replacement for paper. The screens are often produced on a flexible substrate so they can bend, unlike conventional LCD (liquid crystal display) panels that are made on glass. But the amount by which they can be bent without causing damage to the screen widely varies between prototypes, and there are still no displays that can be folded like a sheet of paper.The new LG.Philips LCD panel borrows some of the TFT (thin-film transistor) technology used by the company to make LCD panels and marries it with metal foil and a plastic substrate. The result is a flexible screen that is less than 300 micrometers thick, which is a few times thicker than standard copier paper. In addition to being flexible the screen can be viewed through 180 degrees even when bent, the company said.At CES the company also plans to show a mono e-paper screen equivalent in size to a B5 sheet of paper (176 mm by 250 mm). While not as impressive as the larger, color display, it is easier to manufacture and LG.Philips LCD said it plans to launch this latter display later in the year.In addition to the physical specifications of the displays one of the keys to success will be how fast the image can be refreshed on the screen. A conventional LCD is capable of redrawing the image many times per second but e-paper prototypes shown until now typically take a few seconds for the on-screen image to completely change. For example, a&#160;Fujitsu prototype unveiled&#160;in May last year took 2 seconds to refresh an 8-color image and 10 seconds to refresh a 4,096-color image.&#160;
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Dutch consumer electronics manufacturer Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV is developing a personalized video recorder application that learns users&#39; viewing tastes, and that could compete with TiVo.
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The semiconductor unit of Philips Electronics is adopting a new name, NXP, as it pursues a strategy to supply chips to the fast-growing market for advanced electronics products.
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New lineup of low-cost PCs includes with some multimedia capabilities.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) - Philips Electronics, the largest consumer electronics maker in Europe, on Tuesday cautioned it expects flat sales in its semiconductor business in the fourth quarter and is seeing ongoing margin pressure in consumer electronics.
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The memory developer is looking beyond games to HDTV, mobile phones, and other electronics.
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Devices seen as good entry point to consumer electronics market.
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With digital music players and digital cameras being two of the hottest sellers in consumer electronics, it's a wonder that it has taken so long for hardware makers to marry the technologies.
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Intel and Motion Computing design a tablet-like PC specifically for medical professionals.
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AMSTERDAM (AFX) - Royal Philips Electronics NV said it has agreed to combine its PC monitor and flat TV businesses with Hong Kong-listed TPV Technology Ltd, forming the world&#39;s largest manufacturer of PC monitors.
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PC giant unveils consumer electronics strategy, including iPod music player, high-definition TVs and PCs that record television shows.
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From the "luggable" Apple IIc and Commodore SX-64 to today's Asus Eee PC, portable computers have gotten ever smaller and sleeker. Here are some favorites from days past.
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The PC maker continues its expansion of retail outlets around the world.