How Night Sight makes chip companies look very dark
Over the holidays we got a chance to test out Google’s new “Night Sight” , this is the capability available on the company’s Pixel phones which takes incredible low-light photos. […]
Category Archives: Apple
What is Apple worth?
In our last post we lamented the fact that Apple has discontinued the reporting of its unit shipment numbers. In that post we pointed out that Apple has done this in […]
Non-disclosure Apple
We will admit at the outset that this post is a nostalgic rant, a wish for a bygone era. A few weeks back Apple announced that they will no longer […]
You too can build your own chip – for ONLY $30 million
This post is an excerpt from our newsletter in which we take a deep look at the shifting trends of the semiconductor industry. If you would like a full copy […]
Why is no one investing in games?
Traditional ventures have some good reasons for shunning investing in games, but that leaves a big blind spot for someone else to fill.
And then there were four…or three… or maybe it’s two
There have been some important developers in the semiconductor market this week that have unsettled the semiconductor world. The news was that Global Foundries has exited the market for 7nm […]
CES 2016 – Stalemate for Wireless charging
I mentioned at the outset that I was interested in studying wireless charging at the show. I came away disappointed. The week before the show, a friend at a Chinese […]
Sympathy for the Desktop – Playing PC Advocate
I think it is easy to forget how deeply embedded PCs are in the world. I was in a crowded San Francisco cafe last week in the middle of the […]
Intel has 1,000 people working on a chip for iPhone? Of course they do
Late last week Venture Beat reported that “Intel has 1,000 people working on chips for the iPhone.” This prompted a bunch of inbound e-mails and a Twitter conversation. After a […]
The Contortions of the Consumer Electronics Market
There was an interesting analysis from the awesome team at Chipworks (with a good analysis from Ars as well) out last week showing that Apple’s new A9 processor for its […]
