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The huge increase in sales of portable navigation devices (PND) has made an impact on the car navigation market, which now looks set to split into two areas: low-priced PNDs, and high-function HDD-based systems.
AnalysisApplications are expanding for confocal microscopes, used for measurement of 3D microscopic shapes. Soon they will be used for optical films, solar cells and automobiles..
AnalysisTD-SCDMA, China's own 3G standard, is to be implemented at the end of 2007, marking an important step forward in China's "original standards" strategy.