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About Trusted Sources
This section features posts from around the Web by authors with passion, integrity, authority, and community support in our industry. Our Trusted Sources are not only prominent industry bloggers specifically identified by EE Times -- but also influencers who have earned the trust of our community. With Trusted Sources our goal is to provide the platform to activate and engage in dialogue, and nurture conversations for all participants--beyond just our own voices. Everyone contributes and therefore helps shape what the conversation should be about.
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The Weekly Riff: Technically Not a Blog
If you build it, they will videophone
Avatar's literally other-worldly success is stoking excitement 3D HDTV flames, but another, more profound technological and sociological change is about to engulf the living room: the videophone.
To read the rest of this entry, please visit: http://www.dtcreports.com/blog2.aspx
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Stewart Wolpin
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Stewart Wolpin, a DTC analyst, has been writing about consumer electronics and technology for 25 years and is an elector for the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.
Posted on Feb 9, 2010 10:05 PM
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Sramanamitra.com
Significant Design Wins For QCOM, BRCM
Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) recently provided a disappointing outlook and lowered its 2010 guidance, citing competitive pricing and a slow recovery in developed markets. But the good news is that the company has design wins in Google’s Nexus One, as does Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM). Broadcom is also believed to be in the iPad.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Feb 9, 2010 10:02 PM
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MediaTek (Part 1): Beginnings And Growth
By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala
[Nalini's newest series takes us to Taiwan with an in-depth look at MediaTek's past and future.]
For the six to seven years following its inception in 1997, MediaTek, Inc. focused on providing media processor chips for DVD players and optical storage drives such as DVDs and CD-ROMs. It was not until 2004 that Taiwan’s largest fabless integrated circuit (IC) firm ventured into handset chipsets. Now, MediaTek is a major player in all markets it has entered, including DTV chipsets. Over a series of posts, I will analyze the handset division’s moves and prospects.
Read the full blog entry at http://www.sramanamitra.com.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Feb 9, 2010 10:00 PM
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Networking Sector: Alternate Fronts Developing
There have been some major changes in the networking industry recently: Cisco acquired Tandberg for $3.4 billion, Lifesize was lapped up by Logitech for $408 million, and HP acquired 3Com for $2.7 billion. Responding to Cisco’s move, Juniper and Polycom have formed an alliance to offer videoconferencing systems and associated network infrastructure to service providers.
Read the full blog entry at http://www.sramanamitra.com.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Feb 4, 2010 09:15 PM
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Vision India 2020 Is Ready For You
Readers, you know that I have been working on Vision India 2020 for almost two years. The book is a collection of my 45 business ideas leveraging India’s strategic advantages, spanning a diverse set of sectors ranging from technology to education, healthcare to infrastructure, film to rural development.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Feb 4, 2010 09:11 PM
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The Weekly Riff: Technically Not a Blog
Chatting it Up: Desktop Video Communications Explodes
It's no longer just for the big shots ensconced in expensively equipped board rooms. High-speed IP networks, low-cost web cams and improved video compression are letting the rest of us in on video conferencing and video chatting.
To read the rest of this entry, please visit: http://www.dtcreports.com/blog2.aspx.
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Maya Jasmin
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Maya Jasmin has been an analyst, manager, and writer at Digital Tech Consulting for several years with specialization in forecasting and modeling.
Posted on Feb 2, 2010 12:26 AM
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Linley Chips In
Tegra 2 Sets Mobile Speed Record
Nvidia's Tegra 250 will be the first mobile processor to reach production using ARM's Cortex-A9 CPU, giving it a performance advantage for smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices. The second-generation Tegra processor has been sampling since 3Q09 and is expected to reach production in 2Q10. ST-Ericsson's U8500 and TI's OMAP4, which also use Cortex-A9, are due to enter production later in 2010.
To read the rest of this entry, please visit Linley Chips In.
http://www.linleygroup.com
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Linley Gwennap
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Linley Gwennap is president and principal analyst of The Linley Group (http://www.linleygroup.com)
Posted on Feb 1, 2010 01:16 PM
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SemiconDr
Introducing...the iPad
This post is bound to get lost in the barrage of the other "me-too" blog posts and even mainstream media coverage. (That’s right. Even Fox News LA was at today’s big Apple event in San Francisco. The Fox on-air personality and Leo Laporte of TwiT interviewed each other on their respective networks.) Always fearless as a follower, though, I will proceed.
To read the rest of this entry, visit: http://semicondr.com/Blog/Entries/2010/1/27_Introducing...the_iPad.html
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Don Scansen
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Don Scansen is an independent technology analyst, a licensed professional engineer and a senior member of the IEEE.
Posted on Jan 27, 2010 09:04 PM
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SemiconDr
ISSCC 2010 Preview
At the 2005 ISSCC, a panel of experts looked beyond the horizon to consider what the hot topics might be in 2010. Did anyone get it right? Let’s see from the panelists’ statements that I have quoted completely out of context.
To read the rest of this entry, visit: http://semicondr.com/Blog/Entries/2010/1/21_ISSCC_2010_Preview.html
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Don Scansen
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Don Scansen is an independent technology analyst, a licensed professional engineer and a senior member of the IEEE.
Posted on Jan 22, 2010 12:04 PM
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Intel Demonstrates Low-Power Smartphone Platform At CES
At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel formally launched 27 new processors produced with the 32 nanometer process technology. It also demonstrated the LG GW990, a smartphone built with the company’s yet-to-be-released Atom Moorestown platform.
This marks Intel’s first attempt to crack the smartphone market. According to Gartner, by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common way to access the Web. The number of PCs in use will reach 1.78 billion while the number of smartphones and Web-enhanced phones will be 1.82 billion by the same year.
Read the full blog entry at http://www.sramanamitra.com.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Jan 19, 2010 08:58 PM
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Linley Chips In
Smart TVs Lure Intel Into CE
Although 3D TVs received the most publicity at CES this past month, the emergence of the ?smart? or Internet-connected TV is more significant. TV-maker Vizio exemplifies the trend. The company displayed TVs running widgets to connect to Facebook, Yahoo Widgets, Netflix, and YouTube. Most of these applications previously had been in the domain of PCs.
The emergence of PC-like applications in TVs has set up a clash between long-time suppliers of consumer-electronics (CE) chips and Intel, paralleling the battle for smartphone technology.
To read the rest of this blog entry, please visit Linley Chips In.
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Joseph Byrne
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Joseph Byrne is a senior analyst with The Linley Group, a technology analysis firm focusing on chips for networking, communications, mobile, and wireless.
Posted on Jan 19, 2010 08:56 PM
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The Weekly Riff: Technically Not a Blog
What Does The e-Book Want To Do When It Grows Up?
You want to read the book, see the movie, or play the game? How about all three at the same time? Or, maybe little bites of all three at once. It sounds ridiculous but it’s plausible that the embryonic e-book market could be moving in that direction.
To read the rest of this entry, please visit Myra's blog here:
http://www.dtcreports.com/blog2.aspx.
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Myra Moore
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Myra Moore is the founder and president of Digital Tech Consulting, Inc. and has worked either in the capacity of a market analyst or a technology business journalist for more than 20 years
Posted on Jan 19, 2010 08:54 PM
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Dolby Needs A 4K Solution
It is not just the great three-dimensional sound effects in “Avatar” where you will hear the Dolby effect. Dolby today is everywhere, as part of, fittingly enough, its Dolby Everywhere campaign for Web-connected TVs, Blu-ray movie players, PCs, smartphones, set-top boxes, and game consoles. Let’s take a closer look at the company’s performance.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Jan 12, 2010 01:45 PM
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SKMurphy
One Door Closes, Another Opens
I had the privilege to hear Andrew Grove address the Churchill Club on November 6, 2001 at a dinner meeting in San Jose. His autobiography “Swimming Across” had recently been published and he recounted some key events in his life in the course of his talk.
After he escaped from Hungary following the collapse of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 he made his way to New York in 1957 and associated with a group of fellow Hungarians.
To read this entry, please visit Sean Murphy's blog here.
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Sean Murphy
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Sean Murphy is an entrepreneur who has served as an advisor to dozens of startups, helping them explore new options and bring their businesses to new levels. His firm, SKMurphy Inc., focuses on early customers and early revenue for software startups.
Posted on Jan 12, 2010 01:41 PM
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SemiconDr
January Cowan LRA Semiconductor Forecast
With CES currently underway in Las Vegas, it might be time to consider how much of a gamble semiconductors will be in the coming year. Some devices at the Consumer Electronics Show may have already factored into Mike Cowan’s statistical analysis while some may drive future sales. Whatever the partial pressures of the vaporware at CES, it’s useful to look at real IC revenues and use them to establish the market trends. That’s the value of the Cowan LRA Semiconductor Forecast.
To read the rest of this entry, visit: http://semicondr.com/Blog/Entries/2010/1/8_January_Cowan_LRA_Semiconductor_Forecast.html
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Don Scansen
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Don Scansen is an independent technology analyst, a licensed professional engineer and a senior member of the IEEE.
Posted on Jan 8, 2010 01:59 PM
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Optics Overview: Better Time Ahead?
Last year was tough for the optical component manufacturers JDS Uniphase and Finisar as telecom operators reduced their IT spending. However, the two companies recently reported good quarters as the economy recovers.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Jan 8, 2010 01:55 PM
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harry . . . the ASIC guy
My Obligatory TOP 10 for 2009
What’s a blog without some sort of obligatory year end TOP 10 list?
So, without further ado, here is my list of the TOP 10 events, happenings, occurrences, observations that I will remember from 2009. This is my list, from my perspective, of what I will remember.
To read the rest of this entry, please visit Harry's blog here:
http://theASICguy.com
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Harry Gries
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Harry Gries is an Design Consultant specializing in ASIC Design Methodology and EDA Technology.
Posted on Jan 4, 2010 05:47 PM
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Strategy Roundtable: Jan. 7
Many of you have read my New Year’s resolution post, and asked me how you can help further the entrepreneurship movement.
One of the best received free services that I have pulled together are the strategy roundtables. The next one is on January 7, 2010, at 8 a.m. Pacific. You can register here and also listen to recordings of prior sessions. And you can bring the entrepreneurs and aspirants you are trying to encourage and influence into them.
Read the full blog entry at http://www.sramanamitra.com.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Jan 4, 2010 05:44 PM
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Semiconductor Stocks See Light
The year just ended must have been one of the worst for the semiconductor sector. However, the recent strong earnings results from Infineon, Micron, and National Semi indicate that 2010 may be more promising.
Read the full blog entry at http://www.sramanamitra.com.
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Sramana Mitra
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Sramana Mitra is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded three companies after graduating from MIT with a Masters in EECS. She is a strategy consultant, and, in addition to her blog, writes a column for Forbes.
Posted on Jan 4, 2010 05:41 PM
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The Weekly Riff: Technically Not a Blog
Wireless HDMI: Bigger than 3D
While CES will be replete with gaudy 3D HDTV and 3D Blu-ray demonstrations, likely complete with Avatar and Up! clips, a far more consequential innovation will be purposefully well-hiddenwireless HDMI.
To read the rest of this entry, please visit: http://www.dtcreports.com/blog2.aspx
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Stewart Wolpin
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Stewart Wolpin, a DTC analyst, has been writing about consumer electronics and technology for 25 years and is an elector for the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.
Posted on Jan 4, 2010 05:39 PM
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