Posted: February 10, 2017 Contributing Authors: Ray Angers, Goran Grbic and Martin Bijman Microsoft recently launched a new service to their cloud customers offering protection against patent infringement lawsuits. TechInsights was given early access to the patents being made available to Microsoft

Posted: October 12, 2016 Contributing Authors: John Sullivan UPDATE October 27th 2016: Today Qualcomm announced a definitive agreement to purchase NXP . This acquisition instantly positions Qualcomm highly in the automotive market, in direct competition with Texas Instruments (rumoured to be amongst

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

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

Posted: June 21, 2016 Contributing Authors: Mike Spence and Martin Bijman It feels like the intellectual property (IP) industry is being inundated with new patent tools. These tools generally sit on top of the same corpus of data – patent and trademark filings from the international Patent and

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

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

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: 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: 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

Posted: December 24, 2014 Contributing Authors: Martin Bijman On December 23, 2014, RPX purchased the remaining assets of Rockstar for $900M.[1] RPX describes in their release that of the 6,000 assets in the initial Rockstar $4.5B purchase of Nortel assets in July 2011, about 2,000 had been

Posted: June 24, 2014 Contributing Authors: Ray Angers The US$1.1B takeover bid announced last week by storage solutions heavyweight SanDisk (SNDK.O) for Utah-based Fusion-io (FIO.N) has many suggesting this signals SanDisk’s ambitions to dominate the enterprise segment of the storage market. For a