Recently, electronic industry presents rapid changes. Here we amplifying several discontinued electronics info in recent years to hope you have a better understanding about it.

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Amplifying Several Discontinued Electronics Info in Recent Years
Obsolete IC Affect Environment Protection
The growing concern of environment makes people put part
of the attention on recycling programs. For semiconductor
industry, how to solve obsolete equipment can impact it.
It is well known that electronic waste has a very bad effect
on environment protection. E-waste refers to the obsolete
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electronic equipment including consumer electronics and
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telecommunication equipment such as PC. It is reported that
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the global e-wastes are increasing with an amount of 20
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million pounds per year.
Obsolete household appliances mainly contain six kinds of harmful substances: lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium,
PVC plastic, brominated flame retardants. Television cathode ray tube, printed circuit boards solder and plastic shell are all toxic
substances. A TV set cathode ray tube contains 4 to 8 pounds of lead. Making a computer needs a variety of 700 chemical raw
materials, which contains 300 varieties of human harmful chemicals.
Computer battery and switch contain chromium iodide and mercury, chromium iodide through the skin and the cells infiltration
can trigger asthma; Mercury will damage the brain nerve; The mercury and other elements in casing and the disk drive chrome
will damage the human body cell's DNA and brain function. If these electronic wastes will be discarded or buried, a large number
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of harmful substances into the underground, causing serious pollution of groundwater; If to burn, it will release a large amount of
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toxic gases, cause air pollution.
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Many companies made great efforts to join in this recycling activity, especially in the PC field. It is reported that millions pounds
of obsolete PC equipment are disposed in recent years. For example, IBM said it recycled more than 100 million pounds of
obsolete PC components.
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Intel discontinues 25 CPU
Intel announced the discontinuing of 25 desktop CPU models
in April.
It is reported that the production of CPUs including Core
i5-661/660, Core i3-530, Pentium E5700 and Celeron E3500
will reduced step by step in the first quarter and end in the
second quarter.
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Besides, the production of Core
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i7-960/950/930/870/880S/870S, Core i5-2300/680/670, Core
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Duo E7500/E7600, Pentium G960, E6600/E550 and Celeron
E3300 will also be stopped at the same time.
The new PC will be installed with the new Ivy Bridge. For people who are willing to update its PC, it’s good news. However, for
people who own the PC with 25 CPU, the repair of it will have a little trouble. Whatever, there will be solutions.
WoodWing discontinued iPhone solution
In 2011, WoodWing discontinued its iPhone solution to offer a new mobile platform for all hand-held devices.
WoodWing, with its partner, devote itself to support innovative digital media solutions for end users. Rather than replicating a
print magazine onto a Smartphone, Mozines is offered. Mozines blend elements from print, web, mobile, video, blogs, and other
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assets owned by the publisher and creates a distinct, customized package of screen optimized content for iPhones, Android
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phones and BlackBerrys.
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The MOZINE™ publishing solution is an end to end mobile publishing service based on the
premise of Publish Once, Distribute Everywhere. Once set up, content can be easily produced and interacted on the iPhone,
BlackBerry, Android, with a superior rich-media experience.
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SEGGER ended IAR branded J-Links
The same in 2011, SEGGER Microcontroller ended the
supply of its IAR Branded J-Link JTAG emulators. While to
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ensure optimal J-Link support from the IAR Embedded
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Workbench, it will continue to work with IAR.
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SEGGER thought that IAR's promotion will improve their newly acquired emulators rather than the proven J-Link, potentially
damaging the already build reputation of the J-link and J-Trace. The SEGGER J-Link is an industry-standard for ARM debug
emulators, supported by all major tool chains for ARM core and will work with IDEs from Freescale, IAR, KEIL, Mentor
Graphics, Rowley, Renesas, Tasking, Phyton and others. With an optional RDI module any RDI compliant debugger can be used,
and any GDB compliant debugger with the free GDB-Server.
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