February 20, 2012, ISSCC, San Francisco—Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk described flash memory as a disruptive force in the industry. Nonvolatile memory has been around for a really long time. The first examples were clay tablets which required high effort for one-time programming. More recently, in 1970 Intel invented the EPROM which was programmable…
January 17, 2012, Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Michael Anderson from The PTR Group described the “Internet of Things- living in a connected world” in the keynote address. The Internet has evolved beyond its creators wildest dreams. What started as the Arpanet for government contractors seemed to be more than able to handle…
January 17, 2012, Medical Electronic Device Solutions Conference, Santa Clara, CA—The FDA described the latest guidelines for mobile medical devices. Bakul Patel, a policy advisor for the FDA, provided a general overview of the thought processes going into policy guidance issues. The technology world is changing very rapidly and now consumer devices are moving into…
January 17, 2012, Medical Electronic Device Solutions Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Alan Boucher from Care Innovations, an Intel-GE joint venture, opened the conference with the question, what can medical device technology learn form the mobile revolution? The wireless world is growing and driving the scaling of technology across all mobile platforms. These devices expose consumers to…
January 9, 2012, CES, Las Vegas—Shawn Dubravac from two opinions projected the trends for the coming year in consumer devices. 2010 saw the industry move beyond HD TV, new screens, connected and corralling content, customization and personalization, and empowering the individual. 2011 was the year for moving from portable to pocketable, embedded intelligence, sensorization of…
December 1,2011, Printed Electronics USA 2011, Santa Clara, CA—Janos Veres from PARC detailed the developments in printed logic and memory devices. Their approach is to create technologies and systems in building-block form. PARC has extensive experience in printed sensors, logic, memory, and active matrix backplanes. They continue to push capabilities and limits in all areas…
October 5, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–Eric Bruno from Verizon Communications described the intersection of mobile devices and the cloud and how it is changing the network as a platform for media delivery. Revolutionary changes are happening in the consumption space. Now there are many very intelligent connected devices and they are all connected through…
October 4, 2011, TVNext, San Jose, CA–Steven Reynolds from Comcast talked about the future of video service devices in a multi-platform universe. The next generation of services will be delivered via the customer’s on-premise equipment. The service providers consider this new set of services to be in the future. Video over IP is going to…
August 9, 2011, flash memory summit, Santa Clara, CA—a small group of experts and pundits looked at the issues, trends, and forecasts for tablets. They also look at the effects that these devices will have on various types of storage. Bob O’Donnell, program vice president for clients and displays at IDC noted the diversity of…