There has been a substantial amount of discussion about the noise of power supplies and its harmful effect inside wireless electronic devices such as cell phones and WiFi or bluetooth enabled portable devices. Due to an increased pressure to extend battery life in portable devices, switching (or DC-DC) regulators have
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For decades, electronics product innovation has been incremental in nature, relying largely on the next generation of semiconductors to deliver performance improvement. For almost 50 years Moore’s Law has delivered 2x performance (power or cost) improvement in semiconductors every 18 months, outpacing any product or system level innovation cycle that
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As technologies advance, the semiconductor industry and its traditional business model face a myriad of ongoing complexities demanding an ever accelerating state of operational agility. The electronics and healthcare markets are experiencing unprecedented change through mass market consumerization and global adoption. For most chip companies, gone are the days of
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Over the last 5 years lead generation has fundamentally changed. Companies used to participate in expensive events and focus mostly on branding activities. But today potential customers have direct access to all the products information they need, things are different.
In other industries, marketing & sales teams understand that their
hat comes to mind when you hear the term IP Distribution? How do people like ARM and MIPS get their cores into people’s hands? Pricing, contracts and legal issues? Maybe third-party Web sites like Chip Estimate and Design & Reuse? Yes, they are all factors in how independently developed IP
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The CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) industry reaches US$10B for the first time. Indeed, driven by mobile and automotive applications, the CIS industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.6% from 2014 – 2020. Yole Développement (Yole) announces a US$16.2B market by 2020 (in value):
“Smartphone applications still take the lion’s