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Category: Consumer Electronics

Consumer Electronics

  • Asleep At the Wheel

    Some time back we took a look at Plessey’s EPIC sensor, which can monitor electric fields of various kinds and strengths. They’ve identified a number…

  • MIPS Gets a New Home

    Hey, wanna buy a CPU company? You’re too late, because MIPS Technologies was just sold for $60 million in cash. If that’s more than you…

  • Windows RT: Not So Hot for Tablets

    By now you’re heard about Microsoft’s big splash into the tablet market with Surface. CEO Steve Ballmer showed off two versions: one with an x86…

  • Sixty years plus

    Almost every presentation that I go to talks about the fast moving development cycle and the rapid obsolescence of products. So it was a real…

  • Audio Upgrade

    Used to be that there were processors (of the “regular” kind) and there were DSPs.  It’s no longer enough to be a DSP: you have…

  • What’s In a Name

    We’re all still getting calibrated on sensors, and we can sometimes get tripped up on terminology. In discussions about their sensor fusion IP, Movea explicitly…

  • Drifting Towards Hardware

    In touting their sensor fusion product offering, Movea announced their MotionCore IP in a manner that sounded like they were developing hardware. While that’s not…

  • Atmel Takes On the Actual Screen

    We’ve talked about Atmel’s touch activities before, both with respect to their controllers and their stylus venture (which also features their controllers). To date, they…

  • Time to Get Loud

    It’s a classic case of upping the ante, and it’s not clear where it’s going to stop. Much consumer technology these days has been focused…

  • Missing LED Details

    Two releases came out within a few days of each other that make very similar claims for very different reasons, with neither of them providing…