I’ll be live-tweeting from the EuroAsia press event today on our twitter feed, starting at 9 AM Pacific. Come check it out!
I’ll be live-tweeting from the EuroAsia press event today on our twitter feed, starting at 9 AM Pacific. Come check it out!
How did it go? I Haven’t been able to find any feedback from this event. Can you let me know where I can find any News?
Hello Billy,
The press event was very successful — we ended up spending 45 minutes longer than we anticipated, due to a large number of great questions about our AL3 S2’s unique architecture and approach to the market. I did share a number of these questions on the Twitter feed.
QuickLogic announced a number of unique products. Here’s a few of them, with a brief description:
Our Smartphone evaluation platform, suitable for evaluation, designed, and testing QuickLogic and OEM sensor algorithms. This product is available now to qualified OEMs. It has 10 commonly-used sensor types from a number of market-leading sensor companies, as well as our AL3 S2 device. As you can see from the presentation, it can be plugged directly into a PC, or attached directly to a smartphone (we provide a user-level APK to allow them to test).
Our TAG system, a wearable-specific reference design that will be sampling to Wearable OEMs and system designers in November. The system allows an OEM to test our algorithms directly in a wearable form factor, allowing them to quickly understand our performance and measure our power consumption (and compare both versus competing products). Look for more on this during our next earnings call.
The TAG-N system, a system built specifically to plug directly into the Nordic NRF51822 reference design kit. Nordic is a leader in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)/Bluetooth Smart market. This kit allows system designers using the Nordic platform to immediately insert a QuickLogic Context and Gesture Catalog CSSP into their system, allowing them the chance easily test our solution and insert it into their design. As with the TAG, more information on this during our forthcoming earnings call.
We also announced a partnership with Peel, maker of a really unique technology that purposes a smartphone as a remote control for televisions, A/V systems, and others. Peel technology does require hardware-based control of the IR transmitter/receiver (it can’t be enabled simply with an app — hardware is necessary), and the QuickLogic AL3 S2 is a perfect vehicle for this. Details on the product will be available very soon.
Thanks for the question!
Paul
Hello Paul
Can you comment on any design wins or production wins with these new technologies (AL3 S2)?
Thanks
Hello Brad,
We did not announce anything specific to this at the EuroAsia event. Our next earnings call is October 29th, where we will update our progress publicly.
Paul
BillyGunzz,
QUIK executives have been dumping the stock all along this year. Not much of interest from investors either. If the product engineers or OEMs have any questions about the product they go to the company directly and definitely not look for answers on this blog. I am not letting you down but only caution you there isn’t any useful information for investors on this bloc.
Thanks Paul,
I am excited for the upcoming CC at the end of the Month, I have read that Quik has 70 patents for the Sensor Hub Market. With those Patents will other companies be forced to pay Quik to use them or will Quik keep these for themselves and lead the Pack? I don’t know how that would work could you please explain to me what you feel is the biggest thing (patents, new products, and innovations) that separates Quick from all the other ChipMakers out there. Hopefully, we have seen Quiks final 52 week low and are headed for some gains in the near future.
I hope we will not hear the same “wait until next quarter” I think the waiting is over and Quik needs to Step up and deliver some positive news for their Shareholders…
Hello Billy,
I can best answer the patent question this way: we have filed for multiple patents related to sensor hubs (with more filings anticipated), and continue to enjoy the advantages of our existing patents, many of which cover our sensor hub’s underlying programmable fabric architecture.
Regarding differentiation, the presentation that Andy gave last week to EuroPress is a great tool. We believe we offer the most comprehensive solution of all suppliers, and that is illustrated in the chart below.
http://quicklogic.wpengine.com/?attachment_id=3313
Paul
Thank you Paul! I appreciate your QUIK
Response. Pun intended. Paul, is it fair to say we are in the Infancy phase of the Sesor Hubs and programable hardware? If so, would it also be accurate to say that the Sensors that are already in Market are inferior to what Quik will be bringing to market in the next quarter? I understand that the new Computational capabilities and the extended battery life are indeed better than what is out there now by quite a significant margin and that would lead me to believe that ALL OEMS would be clamoring to have it in their devices. With that said, is Quik positioned to fulfill the demand that may be imminent.
Congratulations on the new deal with PEEL! They are at the forefront of Smart Home Technology and that sounds like a great match. Do you see Quik products controlling other utilities or Appliances in the home in conjunction with PEEL?
Hello Bill,
I believe it is fair to say we are in the infancy of sensor hubs, yes. Today’s hubs are only scratching the surface of what sensor hubs will eventually do — as context awareness becomes more pervasive, algorithms will become more refined and use cases expand. A step counter and knowing you’re in a car is only the start…
Regarding comparing products: I want to be clear that when we say “4X computational performance”, we are referring to the performance of the S2 vs our previous generation S1. There are absolutely products out there that can match our computational performance — but we don’t believe that there is one that can do so at nearly the power consumption we offer.
And finally, thanks for the congrats on Peel. They are certainly at the forefront, and as evidenced by the recent investment in them by Alibaba, it’s obvious that others agree. In regards to your question about controlling home appliances and utilities — this is a very distinct possibility, yes.
Thanks for the comment!
Paul