TV and the Chip Arms Race

One of our correspondents, commenting on a recent blog post, marvelled at the possibilities of a software plus silicon solution to reduce the cost of TV reception on personal computing devices but raised a slightly sceptical eyebrow at the same time. His observation that the new MSi3113 chip is a front end to SDR (software-defined [...]

Coffee and Chips

While today’s microprocessors provide more computing power than was present on Apollo 11 during the first moon landings, most cost considerably less than a tall skinny latte from Starbucks.  While this is clearly good news for the consumer, it is not a great situation for semiconductor designers and manufacturers. Further, in line with Moore’s Law [...]

The Rise of the Smartphone (and the pain of the Operator)

Considerable effort has being expended by industry commentators, analysts and even the mainstream media, highlighting the way in which smartphones – and recently their new cousins, tablet devices – are rewriting how consumers are connecting, communicating and being entertained. By simplifying access to the internet and internet-enabled services, smartphones are rapidly becoming the device of [...]

Broadband – It isn’t all about your connection speed

Everything from PCs to smartphones to Set-top boxes are becoming ‘connected’. The benefits are both varied and enormous from being able to access an incredible array of information to the most diverse levels of multi-media content imaginable to something as prosaic as a firmware update for a Blu-Ray player. However, most peoples’ portal into the [...]

Welcome to MiricsPULSE

Hello, and welcome to the inaugural Mirics blog – MiricsPULSE – penned by me, Simon Atkinson, Mirics CEO. On this blog, I will share my thoughts on developments in the electronics industry that interest me, and I hope you will also find these musings interesting. To kick off MiricsPULSE, let me talk about the Consumer [...]

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