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Fitbit Charge 2 Teardown

Fitbit Charge 2 Teardown

Posted: October 7, 2016 Contributing Authors: Mandi Gingerich Fitbit Charge 2 Fitbit Charge 2 Now that we have had a look at Apple’s latest offering in the world of wearables, it’s time to dig into the latest from one of the original fitness tracker manufacturers, Fitbit. Replacing the Charge HR in
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07Oct
Apple Watch Series 2 Teardown

Apple Watch Series 2 Teardown

Posted: September 28, 2016 - Updated: March 23, 2017 Contributing Authors: Mandi Gingerich and Jim Morrison Just when you thought we might be finished with Apple-related teardown updates, here we are once again. We too had hoped to be through with this by now, but alas, there seems to have been a
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28Sep
Apple iPhone 7 Teardown

Apple iPhone 7 Teardown

Posted: September 15, 2016 Contributing Authors: Stacy Wegner, Al Cowsky, Chad Davis, Dick James, Daniel Yang, Ray Fontaine and Jim Morrison And the winner is….Intel, at least in the iPhone 7 A1778 we have in our lab. The Intel and Apple iPhone 7 rumors have been circulating around for a while, but
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15Sep
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Teardown

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Teardown

Posted: September 12, 2016 Contributing Authors: Dick James As usual, within days of the August 19 launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, we had it in pieces and had identified most of the significant components that were inside. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Die Photo APU and memory The application processor
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12Sep
Who will acquire Intersil?

Who will acquire Intersil?

Posted: September 08, 2016 Contributing Authors: Ray Angers Speculation about who will acquire analog semiconductor manufacturer Intersil is high in the latest chapter of the 2016 Mergers and Acquisitions story. Reports indicate that Japan’s Renesas, a leader in the automotive IC market, currently
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08Sep
Beyond Apple's Force/3D Touch? – Is Synaptics the Key?

Beyond Apple's Force/3D Touch? – Is Synaptics the Key?

Posted: August 12, 2016 Contributing Authors: Ray Angers Last year we looked at the Force Touch technology on the Apple Watch including its construction and its capacitive sensing approach. Later in the year, Apple introduced 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and we have performed a similar analysis (report
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12Aug
LinkedIn's patent portfolio; looking for hidden gems

LinkedIn's patent portfolio; looking for hidden gems

Posted: June 16, 2016 Contributing Authors: John Sullivan The acquisition “Revitalizing Microsoft,” “connecting Office directly to LinkedIn,” “embedding Lynda’s training videos inside of Microsoft software,” “giving Cortana digital assistant access to data from LinkedIn,” “renewing the decelerating
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16Jun
Apple iPhone SE Teardown

Apple iPhone SE Teardown

Posted: June 6, 2016 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison, Ray Fontaine, Dick James, Daniel Yang, and Mandi Gingerich The long-rumored, cost-friendly iPhone SE was finally announced on March 21st of this year. Said to be the iPhone 6s squeezed into the smaller iPhone 5s body, this new iPhone features
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06Jun
Broadcom’s Wireless IoT Business IP

Broadcom’s Wireless IoT Business IP

Posted: May 10, 2016 Contributing Authors: Ray Angers Just three months after the formation of Broadcom Limited, the first large organizational change came recently with the announcement that the newly formed entity was selling its wireless Internet of Things (IoT) business to Cypress Semiconductor
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10May
Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Teardown

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Teardown

Posted: April 24, 2016 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison, Ray Fontaine, Dick James and Daniel Yang The following teardown blog contains some of our initial findings. For more in depth information on these topics and more, download the full Galaxy S7 edge teardown report. Register for a
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24Apr