August 20, 2012, Palo Alto, CA–We talked with Sheryl Connelly, a futurist at Ford Motor company who focuses on trends, scenario, and understanding buyer behaviors related to brands and technology. She has been working in this space for the past 8 years, and has access to multiple corporate resources. One of the directions she is [...]
January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Steve Bambridge, Global Business Director, GfK Boutique Research and Steve Koenig, Director of Industry Analysis, CEA talked about the changing shape of the global tech device markets. The changes are tabulated by region and category. The developed regions of North America, Europe, Japan, and Korea are seeing signs of increasing [...]
At the 2011 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging Conference held in San Mateo, CA this month, speaker after speaker made it pretty apparent that 3D is for real. Though there are still competing flavors of 3D, and some advocate ‘2.5D’ as a safe stepping stone, the cost and reliability of 3D are now [...]
In prepartion for the on-coming big conferences of CES and NAMM in January, we took some time to have a short 1:1 interview the Mr. Joe Lamond, President and CEO of NAMM, to get some quick insights on how the music business has been doing this year. In direct fashion, here are the points of the [...]
Nov 3, 2011, Monterey,CA – This year’s MEMS Executive Congress was well attended by close to 200 hundred people representing the 130+ MIG members. The group over the past 10 years has expanded to include the full extent of the MEMS ecosystem and supply chain. These include device manufacturers, equipment suppliers, foundries, end users, product [...]
May 23, 2011, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—the Churchill Club held their 13th annual technology forecast. This session looks at the developments most likely to become significant in the next three years. The forecast panel consisted of moderator Tony Perkins, founder of Always On, and panelists Steve Jurvetson, managing director from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ajay [...]
January 15, 2011 – Anaheim, CA – This years NAMM show had several positive changes. The show featrured over 200 new exhibitors, they had a software technology pavillion for portable apps, and they moved the TEC awards from the AES show to NAMM. The TEC awards are from the TEC foundation and recognize Technical Excellence [...]
November 3–4, 2010, Scottsdale, AZ — This year’s annual MEMS Executive Congress broke new records for attendance as the MEMS industry strongly rebounded from two years of slight declines. This first-rate event was organized by the MEMS Industry Group — which aims to strengthen the MEMS industry and market by cultivating a neutral forum for [...]
