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AirPods and the W1 wireless SoC: Squeezing innovative technology inside very small packages

Posted: January 20, 2017 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison and Daniel Yang The AirPods were announced back in September of 2016 and our analysis team at TechInsights had eagerly anticipated them to be for sale in October. However, October and November came and went and still no AirPods and no real

20Jan

Google Pixel vs Xiaomi Mi 5s – Form, Fit, and Function Are Similar – but the Price?

Posted: October 27, 2016 Contributing Authors: Dick James Recently Google launched their Pixel phone with great fanfare and media response. This is the first phone for which Google designed the hardware, software, and cloud ecosystem, as opposed to the Google Nexus phones, which used the Android

27Oct

STMicroelectronics’ Time-of-Flight Sensors and the Starship Enterprise Show up in the iPhone 7 Series

Posted: October 17, 2016 Contributing Authors: Dick James One of the lesser-known stories of mobile phone evolution is the development of proximity sensing in order to save power and disable touch screen functions when the phone is actually being used as a phone. This essentially means turning off

17Oct

Growth by Acquisition: Qualcomm in Talks to Acquire NXP

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

12Oct

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

07Oct

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

28Sep

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

15Sep

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

12Sep

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

08Sep

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

12Aug

USPTO’s New API Expected to Shake-Up the Patent Tools Market

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

21Jun

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

16Jun

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