VoIP IC Market
The VoIP IC market is growing and shifting, according to In-Stat. In the next several years, wireless and video will play stronger roles. In-Stat believes VoIP will eventually be just another application on the IP network. VoIP chips will simply disappear at the network level.
Other findings by In-Stat:
VoIP chip revenues from IP phones will grow [...]
SD Memory Cards
Over on the Windows Mobile Team Blog is an excellent post about SD memory cards. I wished I read the post before I bought a SD card. Here's a brief summary of the post:
The Name
SD stands for Secure Digital, but no one ever bother to make it secure. However, the name stuck anyway. SD cards [...]
In-Vehicle Infotainment Semiconductor Market
According to Strategy Analytics, the in-vehicle infotainment semiconductor market is expected to grow to $5 billion by 2013. The driving force is greater feature content and consumer expectations for higher quality audio and video experience, as well as the availability of connectivity for personal entertainment and communication devices.
Strategy Analytics forecasts that the semiconductor demand from [...]
MRAM Technology Webcast
Freescale recently released the industry's first MRAM product. NEC also announced a MRAM breakthrough last July. According to NEC, they developed a new magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) cell technology suitable for high speed memory macro embedded in next generation system LSIs. The newly developed cell technology includes three key elements; a 2T1MTJ (two transistors [...]
Consumer Electronic Devices Fuel Hard Disk Drives
According to In-Stat, a high-tech market research firm, hard disk drive (HDD) sales will remain strong through 2010. Worldwide shipments will increase from 380 million in 2005 to 748 million in 2010. The Consumer Electronic (CE) segment will continue to be one of the hottest market for hard drives.
However, as Flash capacities continue to grow, [...]
Image Sensor Market Remains Strong
According to In-Stat, the booming camera phone market will drive the image sensor market. Camera phones accounted for over 70% of all digital cameras shipped in 2005. The vast majority of these devices used Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) sensors, with the remainder using Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs). In 2005, CMOS image sensor shipments exceeded CCD [...]
Flash Memoy Snake Oil
After reading our article, Using Solid State Flash Disks as Cure-All for Medical Storage Systems, a reader was so impressed that he decided to write us a love letter:
Gentlemen,
As regards this latest in a string of outright deceptions foisted on IT decision-makers by the manufacturers of SSDs (Solid State Disks), I respectfully submit that your [...]
WLAN and A-GPS Chipset Market to Explode
The wireless local area network (WLAN) and assisted global positioning system (A-GPS) chipsets market is set for phenomenal growth, with both technologies expected to extend their benefits into new areas such as consumer electronics and cellular devices.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan reveals that the World WLAN chipset market earned revenues of $910 million in [...]
ON Semiconductor Introduces 18 Power MOSFET Devices
ON Semiconductor, a leading global supplier of power management solutions, introduced 18 new Power MOSFET devices that optimize dc-dc conversion and reduce power losses at critical current levels. These Power MOSFETs are ideal for CPU/GPU power delivery, dc-dc conversion and both low and high side switching in computing applications such as desktops, laptops and servers.
These [...]
Samsung Develops 3-inch VGA LCD Screen
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, has developed the first three-inch LCD panel with VGA (640 x 480 pixels) resolution that directly meets industry interface standards for digital still cameras.
Digital camera makers use an interface known as ITU-R601, an international standard for cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs [...]
Analog Devices Creates Class-D Audio Amplifiers for Portable Electronics
Analog Devices, a global leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and the market leader in amplifiers, introduced two Class-D audio amplifiers designed to meet the low-power, small size, and growing sound quality requirements of portable electronics. A leader in delivering innovative sound processing solutions for home and professional applications, ADI is applying its [...]
Tower Semiconductor Powers Biomorphic 3.0-Megapixel Image Sensor
Tower Semiconductor's Advanced Photo Diode (APD) process powers a new series of CMOS Image Sensors for Biomorphic Microsystems, a supplier of innovative imaging solutions for the cell phone and PDA markets.
Tower's APD process enables improved optical and electrical performance of ultra-small pixels utilizing deep sub-micron process technologies, thus enabling the manufacture of small, cost-effective camera [...]
Art Pigment Key to Spintronics
The ability to manipulate electrons' magnetism, in addition to controlling their charge flow, has the potential to create broad new capabilities for computers and other devices and is the basis for an emerging technology called "spintronics." A major barrier to creating such devices is finding nonvolatile magnetic semiconductor materials, ones that don't demagnetize easily. So [...]
MtekVision MV9319 Camera Signal Processor
MtekVision introduced the MV9319 5 mega pixel CSP (Camera Signal Processor) with next generation high-speed serial interface. The MV9319 has a real-time image compression engine. In addition, it can quickly transmits large quantity of data with its high-speed serial interface. Full-frame transmission of 5 mega pixel image data is possible with 13 frames per second.
The [...]
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