March 2012, Santa Clara, CA – In a recent interview with Ely Tsern Chief technologist of Rambus’s Global Semiconductor Business Unit, we had the chance to discuss the new directions being addressed by Rambus. The conversation was prompted by visable omission of any Rambus papers in the DRAM session at ISSCC held in Feb 2012….
January 2012, Las Vegas, In addition to the massive floor display of TVs, appliances, and mobile electronics which dominated the Central Hall of the LVCC, Samsung also filled most of the Cosmopolitan Hotel conference rooms with specialized product briefings. One of the briefings was an update and the release of the Smart Media Hub. Since…
January 10, 2011, ShowStoppers at CES, Las Vegas—The sideshow to the big show provides an alternate showcase to companies outside the CES madness. Some of the companies that seemed interesting to me included the following: Corel, HeartMath, Improv Electronics, SuperTooth, Toro, and Zagg. Although many of the exhibitors showed some incremental product evolution, just like…
November 3, 2011 – Monterey, CA – The MEMS Executive Congress continued the second day with presentation from further members including end users who were creating finished goods with the devices. This brought an overview of the development ecosystem for MEMS to start with process technology and devices and continue through final product development with…
September 21, 2011, Mobile Entertainment Summit, Los Angeles—A panel looked at the changes that tablet have brought to the gaming industry. John Gaudiosi from Gamerlive.tv moderated the panel which was comprised of Caryl Shaw from Namco, Lin Tam form Spazzmania, Jeferson Valaderes from Flurry, Jason Alejandre from Game Mechanics Studios, and Donald Mustard from Epic…
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…
April 20, 2011 – San Jose, CA – At the Linley Group Mobile Processor Conference, the discussion was on the directions and types of processors being created for the mobile space. The mobile space has greatly changed from the time of voice communication era for basic cell phones with Laptops as the dominant mobile technologies….
For more than 20 years, flash memory has enabled the creation of new markets such as digital photography, digital music and portable high-capacity data storage. Now, flash-based solid state drive (SSD) technology is poised to drive significant changes in the mobile and PC computing industries (Fig. 1). Figure 1:Examples of new markets enabled by flash…
January 7, 2011, CES, Las Vegas– tablets, super smart phones, connected televisions, and smart appliances to fill the smart house were over the place at this year’s consumer electronics show. Although the show had thousands of exhibitors demonstrating many thousands of products, a lot of them seemed to be not quite ready for consumers to…
The 41st annual Comic-Con was held in San Diego at the end of July. This year’s event was attended by more than 125,000 people and has expanded well beyond collecting, trading and selling comic books. The new show was focused on all aspects of science fiction, fantasy and mobile entertainment. To understand the extent of…