CEVA on the rise

In my not so unbiased opinion, CEVA has always been an underrated company, perhaps more so now than ever as the pace seems to be quickening toward the adoption of more advanced wireless communications technologies like LTE (one of the sweet spots of CEVA’s DSP technology offering). CEVA has a great business model, brand name [...]

“New MEMS” fits Coventor’s strategy

Industry analysts are great at two things (OK, maybe more than two): 1) coming up with new categories to expand their coverage areas; and 2) covering their butts, sometimes by doing #1. The area of MEMS is a good example. MEMS have enjoyed solid but unspectacular growth over the last decade or so, toiling away [...]

Shocking coverage for a novel approach to ESD

Shocking Technologies has been quietly working on what may turn out to be a revolutionary approach to electronic design. It’s not in the mainstream of where other Wired Island clients are with design tools and IP. Instead, its value is further downstream, where products become reality in manufacturing labs and assembly lines. And, it may [...]

They is us: The changing face of media and influence

In the wake of the recent acquisition of The Huffington Post by AOL and the launch of The Daily by News Corp, it is clear that the world of media continues to change before our eyes in a way and at a pace never before seen in the history of how information is communicated. These [...]

Adimec: A new focus area for WI

We’ve expanded our focus to a different kind of company lately – different for us anyway – and hope to obtain some high-resolution results. OK, the puns don’t work unless you know what kind of company there are. They are called Adimec and they make cameras. Not your run-of-the-mill, point-and-shoot, $99 Best Buy specials. These [...]