Contributed by: Sinjin Dixon-Warren
MEMS microphones appear in smartphone and tablet products from all the major suppliers, including in Apple and Samsung products. According to IHS, Apple is a major driver for MEMS microphone product growth. The iPhone 6, for example, contains three MEMS microphones, while the iPhone 6s contains four....
Contributed by Mandi Gingerich
In June, Samsung released a new, AT&T exclusive version of its flagship Galaxy S7 smartphone, the Galaxy S7 active. This is the latest in a line of outdoors-y Galaxy S active devices, earning the title “toughest Galaxy device ever” and boasting a shatter-resistant screen, an IP68 water-...
Contributed by 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 Trademark Offices (PTOs). The USPTO corpus has...
Contributed by 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...
Contributed by 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 Corp. This news provided the motivation for Chipworks to take a look...
Contributed by Mandi Gingerich, Julia Elvidge and Jim Morrison
The new, more-stylish Alta fitness trackerIf you look through our recent blog history, you will quickly see evidence of Chipworks’ interest in the latest in wearable technology. So, naturally, when such a big name in the market as Fitbit announced a change of pace...
Contributed by 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. Chipworks has continued to refine our models of the IP of IoT, particularly about things, gateways, and analytics, and determined an updated ranking. And...
Contributed by Jim Morrison, Ray Fontaine, Dick James, Daniel Yang, and Mandi Gingerich
The long-rumored, cost-friendly iPhone SE was finally announced on March 21st of this year. Said to be the iPhone 6s squeezed into the smaller iPhone 5s body, this new iPhone features an appealing price point with flagship-level performance....
Contributed by Dick James
We recently dissected a Tag Heuer Connected smartwatch, a $1500 luxury Android Wear device, which looks and feels really good, but received only mediocre reviews. At 12.8 mm thick, it’s clunky, but only weighs 52 gm thanks to the titanium case – no aluminium or plastic here!
The specs are...
Last week, we were fortunate enough to receive a Galaxy S7 Edge G935T based on the Snapdragon 820 chipset, and this week we get our first look into the Exynos variant, the Galaxy S7 G930FD. We like to look at all major phone releases across their many different models, as we know that there are differences in who wins what sockets in the...
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