August 9, 2011, Flash Memory Summit Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Yoran Cedar, CTO at SanDisk, look at the future prognosis for the flush industry. New devices, applications, and platforms are driving increases in the overall market. On one end of the spectrum, social networking and cloud services are driving the use of more flash at the…
July 11, 2011, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Serge Biesemans, vice president of process technology at IMEC described dream devices and processes. The next generation devices will not look like today’s CMOS. For a number of years, the industry has been processing semiconductors at ever smaller dimensions, below the wavelength of the exposing light. To make…
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…
June 30, 2011 – Santa Clara, CA – At the Connections conference in Santa Clara, IBM and their Global Business Services (GBS) talked about the connected home and the realities of bringing it about. Their research into to sector, shows that consumer interest is very high for the connected home, and there is a high…
May 4, 2011, Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose, CA—We talked to Inside Secure at the embedded conference. They make a number of digital security chips outward-facing security applications for access, identification, and storage. This fabless company is entirely focused on secure semiconductor platforms for digital security market including secure payment via contactless chips and security…
March 10, 2011, Tech Design Forum, Santa Clara, CA– Tom Quan from TSMC describe the increasingly challenging issues in developing analog and mixed signal circuits in their latest 28 nm process. Designs are getting harder because of the trends of the increasing effects of parasitic elements and layout dependent effects (LDE). Device variability is increasing…
March 1, 2011, OTTCon, San Jose, CA– we talked with Zeitera about their audio and video fingerprinting technology. Over the Top (OTT) TV devices are delivering content to viewers directly over the Internet. In many cases these devices must deliver content from various sources that have inconsistent or incomplete metadata causing problems with the viewer…
September 16, 2010 GSA Expo, Santa Clara, CA Jagdish Rebello, Senior Director & Principal Analyst, Communications & Consumer Electronics, iSuppli Corporation presented his take on wireless applications in his talk “Consumer Connectivity Trends – The Battle to Meet Wireless Application Demands” Consumer electronics has been evolving from analog devices, to the second-generation digital devices, and…