Blogs

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

Posted: April 14, 2016 Contributing Authors: Martin Bijman In the spring of 2015, Chipworks published in IAM magazine an article about the IP of IoT , listing IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung as the top IoT patent holders. TechInsights has continued to refine our models of the IP of IoT, particularly

Posted: March 20, 2016 Contributing Authors: Mandi Gingerich, Julia Elvidge and Jim Morrison Fitbit Alta The new, more-stylish Alta fitness tracker If you look through our recent blog history, you will quickly see evidence of TechInsights’ interest in the latest in wearable technology. So, naturally

Posted: February 29, 2016 Microsoft Band II Teardown We tore down the Microsoft Band II back in November, but we think it deserves a second look. It has a lot of great silicon inside. The Band II website gave us a beautifully animated exploded view of the fitness band. Our exploded view isn’t quite

Posted: December 23, 2015 A lot of semiconductor content in something so small! Last month we purchased an iPad Pro and an Apple pencil to understand what devices were being used by Apple in this new tablet and stylus solution. This story is not about the iPad Pro, but about the Apple Pencil. With a

Posted: October 23, 2015 Contributing Authors: Ray Angers Microsemi Corp. (Aliso Viejo, California) trumped Skyworks’ (Woburn, Massachusetts) $2 billion bid for PMC-Sierra this week with their offer of $11.50 per share, or about $2.2 billion. Sunnyvale, California based PMC-Sierra provides

Posted: September 25, 2015 Contributing Authors: Dick James, Daniel Yang, Stacy Wegner, Chad Davis & Albert Cowsky It’s now a yearly ritual - go line up and get the new iPhone! This year Apple did multi-country launches, and allowed pre-orders to be picked up from the store, so no more driving down

Posted: August 21, 2015 Well, that happened. We found ourself doing not ONE, but two, quick turn teardowns on the same day - the OnePlus 2 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. We couldn’t have done it without the full support of our teams, both here in the US and across the Atlantic in Europe, so a big

Posted: August 21, 2015 A Galaxy More Like the S6 than the Note 4 In this galaxy not that long ago, Samsung released what could arguably be the first device to put ‘phablet’ in all of our vocabularies, the Galaxy Note. Fast forward to their recent announcement, Samsung boasted how they knew (“way”)

Posted: April 24, 2015 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison. Daniel Yang and Chad Davis Apple Delivers a Wearable in Total Apple Fashion A few days ago, Apple sent us our tracking number indicating that our shipment would arrive today, Friday, April 24th. We were pleasantly surprised to be a recipient

Posted: April 2, 2015 Contributing Authors: Dick James and Daniel Yang Samsung Galaxy S6 Teardown The much anticipated Samsung Galaxy S6 has made an early appearance in our teardown labs this morning – thanks to the diligent skills of our trusted logistics guru. We got our hands on the 4G+ version,

Posted: February 9, 2015 Contributing Authors: Martin Bijman On Feb 2, Intel announced it will purchase “Internet of Things” (IoT) chip company Lantiq. According to Intel, this will enhance connection experiences in the home, by extending its home gateway business with Lantiq product lineup of