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
April 14, 2011 By
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
March 15, 2011 By
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 [...]
Adimec: A new focus area for WI
March 1, 2011 By
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 [...]
GlobalFoundries and the Common Platform: truly changing an industry? Time will tell.
December 7, 2010 By
We throw around terms like ‘industry-changing’ and ‘paradigm-shifting’ all the time in technology marketing. Occasionally, there is even some hint of incremental change, innovation or improvement associated with such hyperbole. Some things described in this manner stand the test of time, most don’t. Few rarely change the industry or shift the paradigm in any kind [...]
EDA is a tough business
July 27, 2010 By
A report published in Bloomberg this week reveals that of more than 50 of the top high tech companies based in Silicon Valley, two of the EDA industry leaders – Cadence and Synopsys – are at the top of the list when it comes to percentage of revenue spent on research and development. Cadence was [...]
Still more changes at EE Times: Fuller, Part Deux
July 21, 2010 By
Good to see old friend Brian Fuller returning to the Fourth Estate with his appointment as Products Content Strategist (whatever that means – but I’m sure he’ll be good at it) at EE Times. Fuller is one of the best news guys in the business and is a real deep thinker on all things related [...]
Changes at EE Times: new look, veteran editor returns
July 12, 2010 By
EE Times continues to be one of the foremost authorities on the electronics industry. It has provided excellent insight and news for a whole generation of engineers and is a premier media brand. Several years ago, it discovered, along with most of the ‘mainstream’ publishing world, that staying hitched just to a print product was [...]
CEVA finds its way into the iPhone4, plus 5 of the top 5 handset makers
June 28, 2010 By
CEVA supplies DSP IP to a whole range of companies who want to incorporate that type of functionality into an SoC. Its technology has found its way into countless wireless and consumer devices and it is the classic ‘ingredient brand.” For those of you who know the semiconductor IP space, CEVA is, in many ways, [...]
