At a time when so much work is conducted online or over cellphones at home, in cafes and on airplanes, offices are perhaps more symbolic than ever. So it seemed fitting that on the clear day when Samsung opened its 10-story Silicon Valley office you could stand on the top floor and just pick out…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Malcolm Thompson understands global techno-politics. Back in the day, he led an effort to revive LCD display manufacturing in the U.S. These days most panels are made in Korea and China, but the U.S. did get a strategic piece of the pie. Now Thompson is leading a very different effort to…
SAN FRANCISCO — Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich sat down with us on Aug 18, after he spent a full day delivering a 90-minute keynote, talking to Wall Street analysts, touring the show floor and frequently checking his smartphone at the annual Intel Developer Forum here. Despite the heady schedule — which included having a…
SAN JOSE – Wearables are the fastest growing segment in consumer electronics, but they are also the smallest and most fragmented – and are likely to stay that way. That’s the picture from a recent report by the Consumer Electronics Association presented at the Flash Memory Summit here. The wearable segment has been nearly doubling…
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The LoRa Alliance will name Geoff Mulligan as its chairman effective August 1. The veteran communications engineer and evangelist said he wants to expand use of the group’s 900 MHz networking technology and promote interoperability broadly in the Internet of Things. LoRa is one of a handful of emerging options for…
SAN FRANCISCO – Semiconductor sales are in a two-year slump due to weak demand for PCs and smartphones, according to a new forecast. The Internet of Things and China are generating excitement, but are not expected even in the medium term to provide a significant boost. Chips sales will be rise a mere 2.2% this…
BRUSSELS – A smart T-shirt with removable electronics stole the limelight at the annual ITF event here. Separately, the Imec institute that hosted the event and its affiliate the Holst Center in the Netherlands launched an Internet of Things research program and a low-power air quality sensor as its first licensable product. The T-shirt is…
I’m enjoying a down day in a cool, rainy Brussels awaiting the start tomorrow of Imec’s annual ITF event where I’ll hear an update about extreme ultraviolet lithography, the semiconductor roadmap and more. The horizon is looking a bit brighter given a recent prediction from Handel Jones that cost per gate will decline again at…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Forget the 50 billion devices on the Internet by 2020 as preached by networking giant Cisco Systems. That over-quoted fantasy projection includes all PCs, smartphones, tablets and probably a few iKitchen sinks. At his first event dedicated to the Internet of Things, Linley Gwennap will roll out his own forecast. The…
The glorious, storied semiconductor industry has many more moves to play. But for the foreseeable future yesterday’s news about the new Broadcom reminds us that everyone is playing one big game of consolidation. In that game there is one last really big move. A combination of Intel and Qualcomm could be the last of the…