EET ON THE QT

A lively roundup of what we've heard on the street and what it means for you

Display Makers Seek a Lighter Touch

Rambus Enters Chip Security IP Market

Spreadtrum Co-Founder Forms VC Firm

Intel Lags in Mobile Shift

LTE Modem IP Makes for Strange Bedfellows

Next in Space: The ‘S Word’

DRM Concerns Could Scramble Google TV 2.0 Debut

Lack of a ‘Platform’ Hurting Fujitsu Semi

Unity on 450-mm Strategy Eludes European Union

Battle Royal Shaping Up for Computex 2012

CEA Considers Remote Control Standard

First 40/100G Waves Come Ashore

LAY OF THE LAND

Surveying the landscape of both critical and non-traditional industry segments

Upward Mobility: India, China Battle for Markets

As its mobile phone market takes off, India’s handset players are locking horns in the marketplace with many of the same Chinese companies to which they have been joined at the hip through technology and manufacturing partnerships.

VC WATCH

Tracking the hottest industry startups and gauging their chances for success

Software Startup Seeks Parallel Prizes

Multicoreware Inc., a startup formed in 2009, is taking the lead in helping microprocessor vendor Advanced Micro Devices address the challenges of multicore processor and software development.

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Chinese Startup Rolls ‘Unified’ Android Processor

A two-year-old fabless startup in Shenzhen, backed by a publicly listed holding company in Hong Kong, is going after the Android mobile and tablet computing market with the bold step of developing its own 32-bit multicore processor architecture.

MARKET DATA

Crunching the numbers and discerning trends on varied segments of the global electronics industry

Sentiment Index Deems Chip Industry Healthy for Now

A little known “sentiment index” purporting to measure the health of the global semiconductor industry seeks to be an authoritative indicator of where the industry is headed.

COMPANY TEARDOWN

We identify and dissect the up-and-comers, the established firms hitting their stride, and the companies in crisis

MStar Semi Flies … But under the Radar

It’s the billion-dollar chip company about which you likely know very little, other than its name. But that suits the management just fine at Taiwan-based MStar Semiconductor, where keeping a low profile is a matter of company policy.