March 18, 2013, NPD Flat-Panel Display Conference, San Jose, CA—Paul Semenza from NPD DisplaySearch described how the supply chain is reacting to the rise of smart devices. The apparent conflict between big and cheap versus increasingly high-tech means that supply chain must evolve to meet both requirements. Smart devices are defined as connected, interactive, and [...]
December 13, 2012, Churchill Club, Palo Alto, CA—The Churchill Club held their annual gadgets program to review what’s hot and not in consumer technologies. The presenters are people who get to play with new technologies as a part of their day jobs. This year’s presenters were: Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal, Kara Swisher [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Gabriel Rebeiz from UC San Diego talked bout RF MEMS switches and tuners and the commercialization of those devices. The technology enables higher performance and agility over discrete and other integrated solutions. The investigations into RF MEMS is separated by UC campuses. San Diego focuses on switches [...]
January 6, 2011, – Livermore, CA- We talked to Camille Tang of Convienient Power which was one of the original members of the Qi Wireless Power Consortium. In a pre-CES update, she talked about the progress made in the group and the surpirsing developments in the adoption. Qi Wireless Charging pad The past couple of [...]
November 18, 2011, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference, Mountain View, CA–Paul Jacobs from Qualcomm suggested that mobile devices are the development platform for innovation. These devices are fertile grounds for new features and capabilities. Through long partnerships with Cal, they have done research into ubiquitous swarms, cloud, mobile access, and sensor swarms. All [...]
November 3, 2011, International Games Innovation Conference, Orange, CA–Dave Durnil from Qualcomm presented his views of ubiquitous gaming. The advances in technology and software are making game playing available to everyone at any time. Historically, digital games started with arcade machines. These machines still exist and bring in almost $800 M a year, down from [...]
August 8, 2011, Hot Chips 23, Stanford, CA—Simon Seegars from ARM described the evolution of ARM processors and how they are now bringing high performance to mobile devices. Technology changes over time and the sometimes the changes bring pleasant surprises to consumers. Processors and technology have evolved tremendously over the last 30 years. We have [...]
July 11, 2011, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Robert Gilmore, vp engineering at Qualcomm described the functions and capabilities of future smart phones. These phones have become the base platform for many functions outside of voice calls. Smart phones are now the biggest platform for communications in history. Through the ’60′s and ’70′s mainframes got to [...]
July 11, 2011, IMEC technology forum, San Francisco—Jo De Boeck, senior vice president for smart systems and energy technology at IEMC talked about future phone features. What does your phone know about you now? It knows your location, calendar, contacts, and communications threads. Would you like your phone to care about you? With new sensors [...]
March 23, 2011 – San Jose, CA – The annual Samsung System LSI group was once again focused on the mobile marketplace. The event featured discussion of the foundry services group and the roadmap for manufacturing technology down through the 14nm/13nm process node. Additional discussions were on the impact of mobile devices on display, memory, [...]
