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AMD Looked Forward to Returning to Processor Market

Analysts today said that AMD got slaughtered by Intel in the first quarter of the year, but Forbes believes that Llano will help the company to regain market share.

IHS iSuppli said that Intel climbed to a processor market share of 82.6% in Q1 (up 2.0 points from Q1 2010), while AMD dropped to 10.1% from 11.8%.

However, Forbes predicts that AMD’s notebook processors are good enough to take share from Intel – the publication’s forecasts estimates that the uptick could be up to six points in the Laptop AC Adapter market and up to eight points in servers. There may also be gains in the desktop market, but since we know that desktop shipments are declining anyway, those share gains may not matter much.

AMD has fueled high expectations among analysts that its new architecture will generate strong processor shipments. There is now clear pressure for AMD to deliver, even if Intel seems to have fully recovered from its Sandy Bridge hiccup earlier this year.

Intels most feared competitor is ARM.They rule smartphone and tablet market. ARM has multiple suppliers. And they will soon enter the small and light notebook space as well. And eventually the fullsize notebooks will see them too.

For the general public, Intel’s battery itself is too overpowered and the GPU is too underpowered. AMD has found the better balance. I’d still suggest that anyone who spends significant time gaming, who desires top-tier gaming graphics/framerates, or who does CPU intensive tasks such as video encoding, the person should get an Intel CPU. For everyone else, get an AMD one.

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A Guide to Stock Market Trading

Stock market trading in this context entails the buying and selling of individual company shares and the share price is determined by the average value paid.

Share prices fluctuate over time; selling shares at a higher price than they were originally bought for will typically generate a profit. Losses, by contrast, are the result of selling shares for a lower price than they were originally purchased for.

Buying and selling shares is one method of potentially generating profits through the stock market, while ownership of a company’s shares can also provide a dividend income. Dividend payments are determined by a company’s management and depend on the company’s profitability. Note that a dividend payment is not guaranteed. In some cases, dividends may be suspended following losses or lower than expected levels of profitability.

Company shares are essentially a stake in the company. Derivatives can also be used to speculate on the stock market. Derivative trading does not entail actual ownership of shares and common examples of derivatives are financial spread betting and CFD trading.

Derivatives trading is often leveraged, which means that profits or losses are amplified. As such you should note that losses may in fact exceed your initial deposit. As such, you should only speculate using money that you can afford to lose.

Before trading derivatives ensure that they match your investment needs as they might not be appropriate for all classes of investor. Make sure that you are fully aware of the risk involved and obtain independent financial advice if necessary.

You can normally spread bet on shares from around the world with companies like CMC Markets and Financial Spreads.

Stock markets can move up or down over the long, medium or short term. There is no absolute guarantee that previous price trends will continue.

Previously stable shares can drop suddenly in response to major news events, such as a stock market crash or even poor US employment data. By contrast, a company’s share price can also appreciate sharply in value if it announces stronger than expected financial results, for example.

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Condition of Battery Market

Without doubting, people could not live without battery nowadays. No matter the one in cars or in the laptop, battery have been a partial of daily life. Then it is very important for us to store the battery, because the materials which made of battery in some way is harmful to humans. What’s more, in order to save the energy in the battery, we should know how to store the battery.

Inappropriate storage way would significantly shorten the life of battery. If you find your battery will not be in use for a month or longer, the suggest method is to remove the battery device and store it in a cool, dry, and clean place.

In today’s electrical equipment market, lithium battery is regarded as the hottest energy vehicles especially the four cathode materials of lithium iron phosphate and laptop battery. They are the hot concept recently. Turn all kinds of battery products compete, lithium iron phosphate becomes the leading motive power in battery market. People are optimistic about the high demand of this industry. The industry of power battery can be described as one of the rapid development trade in recent years.

Besides the lithium iron phosphate, we may have heard a variety of battery power. For example, on some bus shows, there is a new energy bus which is using a sodium sulfur battery. But this kind of battery energy has been denied because experts pointed it is very unstable under high temperature. There is another kind of battery is lead-acid battery. It can be regarded as a more mature product, but because of its high pollution, this product gradually discarded.

In recent market, the lithium-ion battery is the mainstream product which is determined by some majority agencies. The energy density of lithium-ion battery Ni-MH battery of about 1.5 to 2.5 times for lead-acid battery 3 to 5 times, self-discharge indicators also has significant advantages. For now, lithium iron phosphate is the best choice. However some experts pointed out that the iron phosphate lithium battery powered electric vehicles is not an effective solution. Because from a single cell voltage of view, lithium iron phosphate lithium cobalt oxide and other materials than the much lower energy density lithium iron phosphate is low, the battery system, large volume, large-scale use may not be appropriate, need to do more technical demonstration.

In a word, the market of battery energy is still changeable. We could not define which one is always the main stream products, because the technology develops every day and every minute.

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EU Still Top Market For Solar

China’s shipments of solar power-related products to the EU have been strong despite reduced subsidies. Although makers are exploring alternative destinations, the EU remains the key export market.

Despite subsidy cuts, China PV manufacturers will continue to focus on the EU market for the next few years. Some of the larger enterprises, however, will be expanding their reach to other destinations, including the US and Southeast Asia.

One of the reasons the EU will remain the primary market is that buyers there place large-volume orders. Michael Guo, manager at Yuhuan Sinosola Science & Technology Co. Ltd, said its EU customers typically requisition more than 1MW of solar panels. Orders from other markets such as Singapore are smaller in terms of volume. Suppliers are generally unwilling to accept such transactions because the average unit manufacturing costs are higher and likely to eat into their profit margins.

Zhejiang Hengji PV-Tech Energy Co. Ltd exports 80 percent of solar cells and modules output to the EU, including Italy, Spain and Germany. Manager Susan Xu said orders have not decreased since the subsidy cuts were announced, and have actually continued to go up. The company is even planning to boost capacity 50 percent this year.

Xu said that while the reduction may give some buyers reason for pause, the large customer base in the EU means China makers may not feel the impact at all. Apart from power generating plants, there is demand from residential communities that employ solar energy.

Guo said the subsidy cuts have not affected Yuhuan Sinosola’s business.

China’s highly export-oriented solar power industry has been accelerating in recent years. Only 10 percent of PV output is sold to the domestic market. Of those earmarked for overseas sales, 90 percent go to the EU.

But larger makers have now started to branch out into other regions. Yuhuan Sinosola, for instance, is taking to steps to be UL-listed so that it can export to the US and Canada.

One of the country’s major PV makers, Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd built a 100MW solar cell plant in Hainan last year. The factory was constructed in China’s southernmost province because it is the closest to Southeast Asia. Since output from the facility will be exported mainly to countries in that region, transportation costs will be minimized.

Zhejiang Hengji is looking at cultivating sales at Japan, South Korea, the US and Africa. The company is in the process of obtaining required certification, including having its products carry the CE mark and be UL-listed.

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Volvo Looks to Expand Market Presence in China

The Swedish car brand Volvo recently announced that it will invest over US$10 billion in the emerging Chinese market and build up more factories to reach a higher sales target in the next five years.

As a foreign brand acquired by the Chinese auto company Zhejiang Geely Holding Group last year, Volvo did not present a very desirable sales record in 2010. Under new ownership, the company is hoping to raise the total sales in China from last year’s 39,000 to 200,000 vehicles by 2015. It also disclosed the plan to increase the amount of dealerships from the current 106 to 220 in next five years.

Volvo hopes to benefit from its new Chinese owner while selecting the new locations for its manufacturing plant. The company plans to locate one of its future factories in Chongqing, where Geely also has a plant established. The two brands will be sharing manufacturing services, including infrastructure and logistics.

Another new Volvo factory will stand in Daqing, a city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeastern China.

Although enjoying a number of benefits by being a Chinese company in the Chinese market, Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby told CNN in an interview that the brand images of Volvo and Geely have little in common.

Both Jacoby and Geely’s board chairman Li Shufu agree that the two car brands target different customer groups. While Geely is designed for the low-end market, Volvo defines itself as a luxury brand with major competitors such as BMW, Audi and Mercedes.

Seeing China surpass the United States to become the biggest auto market by sales in 2009, and realize another 33 percent increase in car sales to 13.7 million vehicles in 2010, Jacoby admitted that Volvo has lost the early-bird advantage in China. However, he hopes the pairing of the famous European company and the young upstart Chinese brand can help Volvo catch up in the competitive, yet profitable market.