THE BIG IDEA

Changing business models and emerging technology/market segments that could impact your business

Survival Guide to the Mobile Patent Wars

It's an intellectual property jungle out there for mobile device developers. We provide a survival guide for navigating the crossfire among Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and Android partners.

EET ON THE QT

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

Google Plays it Straight with Moto

Big Nets Get Schizophrenic

Amazon Offers Rare Glimpse Inside Kindle Fire

CSR’s New Mission: Avoid Commoditization

Opportunities on the Road to Terabit Ethernet

Samsung Making Logic Leap to Boost Foundry Profile

Thinking out of the Fab

LAY OF THE LAND

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

Chip World Faces Facts: EUV Lithography No Sure Bet

It’s safe to say the next big step in chip manufacturing, extreme-ultraviolet lithography, still isn’t ready for prime time. That means global chip makers anxious to leverage EUV manufacturing technology face the frightening prospect of using ever more complicated—and expensive—tricks to extend current optical lithography tools

VC WATCH

Tracking the hottest industry startups and gauging their chances for success

Group Tackles Declining VC for Chips

A new chip industry working group is studying the decline of venture capital funding available to nurture semiconductor startups and what, if anything, can be done about it.

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ActLight Takes CMOS Tack to Smart Solar

A Swiss solar energy startup is taking an unconventional path to solar power development: It wants to use silicon CMOS wafers usually optimized for logic circuits to integrate large numbers of small solar cells with logic in a chiplike device.

MARKET DATA

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

Renewable Energy Market Beckons EMS Providers Who Can Deliver

The increasing focus on renewable energy and clean technology is creating growth opportunities for electronics manufacturing service providers. For EMS providers, executing and delivering low-cost products on schedule are the keys to success.

COMPANY TEARDOWN

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

Vicor Plots IP Strategy in Shifting Power Market

Power supply specialist Vicor and CEO Patrizio Vinciarelli are seeking to recharge the company in the midst of what Vinciarelli views as a shifting power supply marketplace. The key to Vicor's strategy may be a renewed IP licensing effort.