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Technology industry – Broken rhythm

Reply to this post           The breaking of Moore’s Law will make software even more important. Intel’s significant change in the rhythm of its die shrinks...

Samsung, QCOM & TSMC – Win Win Lose

Reply to this post           Qualcomm and Samsung get one over TSMC. Despite losing out to Samsung’s in house Exynos apps processor in the Galaxy s6,...

MWC 15 – Day 2 – Different strokes

Reply to this post           Both MediaTek and Jolla raise eyebrows at MWC 2015. MediaTek It seems like MediaTek has been around for ages but it...

Qualcomm & Samsung – Hot silicon

          Overheating very unlikely to be a Qualcomm design flaw. There is enough noise in the market to make it likely that there has been a...

ARM and Wearables – Cheap is cheerful.

          Small, lean and cheap is the way forward for wearables. ARM has announced a new platform for wearables called mBed that is designed to run...

ST Ericsson – No Life in the Old Cat

          ST Ericsson is being quietly put to sleep after further failures. Ericsson is following Broadcom and Renesas into the void by announcing the closure of...

Qualcomm vs. Ericsson – No sweat.

          Ericsson represents very little threat to Qualcomm or MediaTek. Ericsson’s handset radio chipset business is emerging from the ashes of two failed joint ventures to...

Apple vs. Qualcomm – Black magic

          Apple is likely to stay away from the black art of cellular radio. News articles and recent hires by Apple suggest that Apple may be...

Wireless Charging – Usual muddle

          From a muddle of three standards one should emerge. Wireless charging is a great accessory to have but high cost and standard fragmentation are so...

Intel – Killing the Monkey

          ARM is looking less and less threatening to Intel. Thanks to the blunder that is Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM), ARM has made no...