January 2015 – At the NAMM 2015 show in Anaheim, Playback for the studio and stage was a major portion of the show. Starting with the Artist Relations event that was held before NAMM, companies like Tectonic Audio labs were showing their stage and venue products. Tectonic Audio Labs was in the performance area for…
January 2015 – At CES Marvell was showing a number of their segment specific solutions – Hard disks and storage solutions, TV and communications chips, LED lighting drivers and controls and components for the mobile products industries. The centerpiece of the room was a new Home automation product that was the reference design containing most…
January 2015 – At Pepcom co-located with CES 2015 and also at the main show – there was a dominance of smart phones in the hands of the over 100,000 attendees. The show itself is odd in that it both accessories and obsoletes the handset technology owned by the attendees. This problem of obsolescence of…
January 2015 – Pepcom is a co-located event held at the kickoff to the 2015 CES in Las Vegas. This year the event, which was themed for the 1980’s, featured over 200 exhibitors with products ranging from accessories to hardware to software/apps for the Consumer Electronics space. The technology theme was – 2013 & 2014…
January 2015 – The underlying driver of the CES show is the advancement of semiconductors and sensors. The entire IoT movement is being driven by sensors and the sensors kits are the basis of differentiation for most of the smartphones. A number of these companies were at the show highlighting their technology with the products…
January 2015 – One of the largest areas of the CES show is the peripherals that support the main platforms of computers, cell phones, TVs and cameras. The majority of the booths at the expo floor and events like the co-located Showstoppers are these support products. Some of the big items this year are printers…
January 2015 – Prior to the official launch of CES 2015, the preview called CES Unveiled highlights the key topics and zones of the exhibit floor. The main theme was wireless and connectivity. Vehicles from the connected car zone joined prior products from the CE space now connected with WiFi and Bluetooth LE. The connectivity…
January 2015 – At Storage Visions 2015, there was a panel discussion and presentations on the security of data in today’s devices and the methods of protecting this information in multi-tenant facilities such as cloud service providers and on mobile devices. The discussions focused on the use of self-encrypting drives, key management and data recovery….
January 2015 – At the 2015 Storage Visions Conference that preceded CES, we had a chance to review the new Memory Channel Storage (MCS) developed by Diablo Technologies. The product is a NAND Flash memory product that operates in a system through the standard DIMM connections and the memory channel interface. This provides a direct…
December 2014 – At the 60th IEDM (International Electron Device Meeting) they held their awards luncheon to recognize key contributors to the device processing and device development community. Along with the awards ceremony, there was a lunch time keynote presentation. This year’s speaker was TJ Rogers founder of Cypress Semiconductor and Solar cell/panel manufacturer SunPower,…