We met with WeMade Entertainment and viewed some trailers for their latest game releases. The company made its name with the Legend of Mir 2—a 3D based MMORPG for the PC—which alone attracted 200+ million (as of 2008) users worldwide The company started with on-line PC games, but has changed in the last few years [...]
My first impressions of this year’s E3 were that the show floor was as loud and busy as usual. Although the big news was supposed to be Nintendo’s new Wii U, the reality was that many of the new offerings seemed to be just more of the same—RPG, shooters, and dancing, have all been there [...]
June 6, 2012, E3, Los Angeles—we met with Jeromy Adams and Miranda Barnard from the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and talked about the role of gaming in helping seriously ill children. Their group has started the Extra Life gaming network to generate contributions for local Children’s Hospitals. Here is a chance to help others with [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Marc Madou from UC, Irvine described his research in nano-materials. The range of applications for his processes spans batteries, battery sensors, and nano-wire sensors. Making a sensor from carbon nano-materials eliminates the machining needed for most MEMS. This enables the development of complex structures that are not [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Kurt Petersen from KP_MEMS gave a historical perspective on MEMS. The ability to integrate complex functions into a chip has led to high volumes and lower costs. Starting in ’75, there were pressure sensors, strain gauges, and thermal print heads. Now, the range of applications using MEMS [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Harmeet Bhugra from IDT talked about the emerging market for MEMS passive capacitor oscillators. He detailed the arguments for MEMS oscillators and tried to explain why there is a preference for a lower-grade quartz technology. Currently, most users consider piezoelectric oscillators over passive capacitive oscillators. Partly this [...]
May 23, 2012 – The MEMS Tech Symposium had its theme presentation on the MEMS market reaching the $Trillion mark in the future, from Janusz Bryzek of Fairchild Semi. The presentation focused on the MEMS commercialization cycle and the extension of the current 15% CAGR from the $1.5B base of 2012 to ~$1 trillion by [...]
May 23, 2012 – The MEMS Technology Symposium opened with a keynote from Prof. Kristofer Pister of UC Berkeley who talked about Sensory Swarms. These swarms are made of large numbers of wireless sensors that form an information interconnect and communication back to a central compute and analysis location. The vast majority of these new [...]
