Many companies now offer tests for 4G Microdrive, some of which have adopted the 1G Microdrive Hitachi disk, including Blaupunkt, Eastman Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Xi Gema and Sony. Under the Edit Wangdan Song Electric, Toshiba, Samsung Electronics, nine Japanese and Korean manufacturers, announced in August to build "RAM Promotion Group" alliance in the future will jointly promote the DVD-RAM disc development of universal standards. The nine participating companies, including Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi, Hitachi Maxell, Samsung, JVC, TEAC, LG Electronics, and by a joint venture between Hitachi and LG Hitachi LG Data Storage.
Last years hot spot is the Bluetooth, 802.11b analysts say that this year will be the hot spot. Although it is not very widespread application, it is important distributed in airports, hotels, etc., but the momentum has gone down the Bluetooth opponents. . Intel and Cisco WLAN products to show, using another protocol, 802.11a. It is five times the speed of 802.11b. Cisco officials said the consumer electronics companies are interested in this, is considering an increase in its wireless support AV equipment. Tablet PC Microsoft, Intel, Transmeta, and several PC manufacturers this year to promote Tablet PC. Such as the Transmeta chip-based Compaq will launch the product. Computer Tablet PC manufacturers want to add wireless networking capabilities. This is a concept in January at the Consumer Electronics Show has been on display before. Prototypes of their products will be in two forms: One is the flat design, no keyboard, and the other looks like a notebook, its screen can be rotated 180 degrees to open, then closed, into a tablet.