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Samsung has reported to freeze salaries of its employees for 2015. It's natural after its profit slump in mobile phone business. It's getting squeezed from Apple on top-end and several others including Xiaomi from low-end. Samsung's profit in 2014 declined by 23.2% to USD 21.2B. The company is...
Last week, I was looking at IC Insight report about semiconductor unit shipments over last ~40 years. It's impressive compounded average ~9.2% growth every year. The total number of semiconductor devices will exceed one trillion in 2017. The total number includes Opto, Sensor, Discrete (OSD) and...
Samsung is trying to strengthen into mobile business from multiple sides. It plans to integrate a mobile payment service with its Smartphones to compete against 'Apple Pay'. In that mission, yesterday it acquired LoopPay, a mobile wallet company. LoopPay is reported to work at more retailers...
Swatch is about to unveil its Smartwatch in a few months possibly against Apple Watch debut.
Swatch CEO, Nick Hayek plans to go head-to-head with Apple. The Swatch Smartwatch will have
internet communication features, mobile payments and others. It will work with windows as well as
Android...
Very soon we are going to see driverless cars on the roads of Britain.
U.K. government has given go ahead for driverless cars to be tested on public roads of Britain.
Initially, a car will have a person to monitor the car and take control when needed, much like when you get trained for driving...
In a major settlement regarding fines on Qualcomm by China regulatory body in violation of anti-monopoly law, Qualcomm is expected to pay $1 Billion. Qualcomm has been accused of overcharging and abusing its market position in wireless communication standards.
NDRC (National Development and...
According to Canalys.com research firm, in December, Micromax (Indian domestic phone maker) replaced Samsung as top Smartphone seller in India, the third largest Smartphone market in the world. Micromax reached 22% market share in smartphone shipment in India as compared to 20% of Samsung...
Focusing on communication solutions, Intel is expanding by acquisitions in this space.
Lantiq specializes in making chips and software for broadband communication,
and networking solutions for DSL, ethernet, Wi-Fi etc.
See the new link - Intel agrees to buy German chip maker Lantiq -...
Last week I had learnt that Samsung is in talks with BlackBerry to buy the later, offering a price between $13.35 to $15.49, with a total value of ~$7.5B. However, hearing that the executives from both sides are denying about any talk on this, I held back.
However, today, again, the news has...
We know the IoT space is struggling for standards. The devices are heterogeneous, there is no common way of communication between them. One may ask, is a common standard really needed? what is needed to be done? It may not be so apparent at this nascent stage, but looking at the massive growth...
TI's strategy of getting out of wireless and expanding its Analog and Embedded processing business seems to be paying well for now.
On 26 Jan, TI would be reporting Q4 2014 along with the whole year 2014 earnings.
It's expected to close on a strong note - seekingalpha report here
In last 3...
This year Israel is becoming hot ground for acquisitions.
Amazon is reported to acquire Annapurna Labs, did anyone hear about Annapurna earlier?
Annapurna Labs is a company owned by semiconductor tycoon of Israel, Avigdor Willenz.
It develops microprocessors that allow fast data traffic for...
As expected, Xiaomi is going to play big in IoT arena with multiple devices connected between them and controlled through its smartphone. So, it's not only smartphone player, it's a player of IoT system now!
Yesterday (the Sunday) at GeekPark Innovation Festival in Beijing, Xiaomi unveiled...
This time Ericsson complained in Texas district court to determine its patent fees against Apple.
Apple complained about excessive royalty fees by Ericsson in California federal court.
Ericsson holds essential standards patents for wireless technology that mandates any products
compliant with...
It seems Samsung is really taking the battle hard.
The much anticipated Tizen based smartphone is already there!
Samsung launched its first Tizen based smartphone, Samsung Z1 in India. And the price is unbelievable - ~$95 :o
There are couple of things I read into it -
1) Has India become the...
Xiaomi has been seen on rapid growth!
In Aug 2013 it was valued at $10 Billion.
Last month after $1.1 Billion fund raising, today we see it at $45 Billion value -
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/29/xiaomi-chinese-phone-maker-valued-at-45-billion/?_r=0
What a meteoric rise!
A few months...
Later in this month (Jan 20 - Jan 29) there will be free seminars for those who purchase IC Insight's McClean report.
The details can be looked at - Seminars and Webcasts | IC Insights
What it foretells is -
The semiconductor cycle reversal which started in 2013 will continue and the upturn...
The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition INDIA is nearing its schedule on 25-26 September 2014 at Hotel Park Plaza in Bangalore, INDIA.
Discounted early bird registration has been extended till September 8, Register here.
Have a look at the detailed program at a glance here.
There...
