The Future of Mobile – Observations from Mobile World Congress

Once a year, tens of thousands in the mobile industry descend upon the charming city of Barcelona, Spain.  Not for the paella on Las Ramblas, nor to see the psychedelic architecture of the famous artist Gaudi, nor to escape our colder climates for the temperate shores of the Mediterranean.  No – we head to Barcelona […]

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So, Really…What is a CSSP?

Starting off, CSSP equals Customer Specific Standard Product.  QuickLogic introduced the CSSP concept to the market back in 2007, and our efforts are paying off, as shown by the growth of this technology (we reported a 93% increase in new product sales in our last earning call). But what exactly is a CSSP, and what […]

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Honeycomb Cometh…

Google’s demonstration last week of its Android 3.0 OS (Honeycomb, for those ‘in the know’) has been widely hailed as the first real shot across the massive battleship that is iPad/iOS.  Naval references aside, the combination of support for larger display sizes along with graphics and interfaces designed specifically for those larger displays is exactly […]

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On NDA’s and the Need for Corporate Confidentiality

The last 30 days for QuickLogic have been quite interesting; primarily so due to the fact that we announced our first VEE production shipments.  We (OK, more accurately I did, here on this blog) also made mention of showing this at CES this year.   Since then, we’ve gotten a number of questions regarding this tablet, […]

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This Just In, From CES

CES 2011 for QuickLogic has been extremely successful so far, and we’re not done yet.  VEE and DPO continue to be a very compelling story, and the new ArcticLink II CX CSSP platform is driving a ton of interest in the applications of QuickLogic’s side loading and secure data management technologies. And yes…we are showing the […]

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As CES Approaches…

For most, the new year brings promises of (rarely-kept) resolutions and hangovers.  For us folks in the consumer electronics industry, it means we need to start packing our bags for the annual trek to Las Vegas for the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show.   This year being no exception, the usual gang from QuickLogic will be at […]

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Android Auto-Brightness: How to Improve this Typically Poorly Implemented, But Important Feature

Recently, a very good article by Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies caught our attention.  Being in the display optimization business with our VEE technology in QuickLogic CSSPs, we investigated the claims of Dr. Soneira, and fully agree with him.  To further the point, QuickLogic has recently released an NDA-only white paper on the Auto Brightness algorithm in the […]

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