New semiconductors in the works / Japanese manufacturers to develop next-generation power-saving devices

The manufacturers hope to have the semiconductors available in fiscal 2019 and they anticipate the devices will be used widely at businesses including call centers that offer cloud computing services, as so then as in products just as personal computers.

The devices will use less power during providing in the extreme high data transfer speeds, enabling manufacturers to equip smartphones with the same central processing units typically found in personal computers. Experts say it will as well be possible to create smartphones with battery lives that last twice as long as those available in the marketplace.

Optical research will enable manufacturers to produce semiconductors that are one hundred times smaller than their current size.

Japan's power consumption from information research products is expected to increase by about 5.2 times between 2006 and 2025 due to the expansion of cloud computing services through the Internet.

There is increasing global competition between manufacturers developing optical innovation as they believe it is key to producing then and there-generation semiconductors.

Japanese companies just as Hitachi plan to produce trial products by completing the required technological developments by fiscal 2019. They aim to utilize optical innovation to revive the Japanese semiconductor industry, which has been faring badly against South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.