If you are not yet familiar with the term Convolutional Neural Networks, or CNN for short, you are certainly bound to become in the year ahead. Using Artificial Intelligence in the form of CNN is on the verge of replacing a large number of computing tasks, especially those involving recognizing things such as sounds, shapes, objects,… Read More
Should terrorists prefer iPhone (thanks to privacy)?
The case between Apple and the FBI may not be as limpid as it could be. If you ask me if Apple, or any US or Europe based supplier of high tech system should help the FBI (or any similar organization) and provide the technical support needed to extract information belonging to a terrorist, my answer would be definitely YES.
I don’t know… Read More
FinFET For Next-Gen Mobile and High-Performance Computing!
Evolving opportunities call for new and improved solutions to handle data, bandwidth and power. Moving forward, what will be the high-growth applications that drive product and technology innovation? The CAGRs for smartphone and data center continue to be very strong and healthy. … Read More
Emerging Smartphone Display Insights from Patents
US201403549 illustrates a display that includes the multifunctional pixels. Each multifunctional pixel can include several display areas as well sensors. Combining visual display technology with sensors provides the touchscreen operation by use of a finger, stylus or other object positioned on or near the visual display,… Read More
Why Apple’s Fight is Fruitless!
The article suggested by LinkedIn is titled “Should Apple fight a court order to unencrypt iPhones? #unlockiPhone”. However, my question is this, why didn’t the FBI just go to the NSA for what they needed? Why didn’t the FBI just hire the latest hacker who was able to hack the iphone and give him the same deal other hackers… Read More
New CEVA X baseband architecture takes on multi-RAT
What we think of as a “baseband processor” for cellular networks is often comprised of multiple cores. Anecdotes suggest to handle the different signal processing requirements for 2G, 3G, and 4G networks, some SoC designs use three different DSPs plus a control processor such as an ARM core. That’s nuts. What is the point of having… Read More
Smart Phones and the Chinese Marketplace
My first mobile phone was from Motorola and it was fondly called the “brick phone” because of its crude shape. That phone helped me be more efficient while living and working in Silicon Valley, because long commute times in the car were common. At one time Motorola was the best-selling mobile phone brand in the world,… Read More
Low end LTE UE categories seeing more action
Most of our attention goes toward the higher end of the LTE UE categories – ones designed for moving large amounts of multimedia data from smartphones and tablets concurrently with voice traffic. An equally interesting discussion is taking shape at the low end of the LTE UE categories targeting M2M and IoT devices with power-efficient,… Read More
Sleep Monitoring and Aiding Devices Insight from Patents
US9192326 illustrates a sleep monitoring system that can be embodied within a wearable device or in a mobile device. The system includes an accelerometer to monitor a user’s movements. The system determines when the user is falling asleep into a sleep session based on the user’s movements. The system also identifies… Read More
Smartphone-based Connected Health Insights from Patents
US20150124067 illustrates an improved technique for monitoring human health vitals without contact using the physiological signals extracted from video images captured by a video camera of a smartphone. One advantage of the contact-less vitals monitoring technique is the avoidance of contact measurement which can be a problem… Read More
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