Digitimes Technical Forum Presentation

Hello readers, As the release on our website says, I’ll be presenting next week at the DigiTimes Technical Forum in Taipei.  I’ll be talking VEE and DPO, in particularly around how VEE and DPO solves the system designer’s issue with balancing viewability and power savings.  There will also be a bit more on DPO 2.0 […]

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As Promised…

As I alluded to at the end of my last blog, today we announced our DPO 2.0 technology; I wasn’t kidding when I said ‘VERY’ soon. So, rather than waste a bunch of space with my often over-loquacious prose, I’ll go right to a FAQ-style blog… Q: What makes DPO 2.0 different from DPO 1.0? […]

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The Curtain Lifts…

QuickLogic today announced that the good folks at Pantech are the first OEM to bring VEE and DPO to a smartphone in their ‘Tablet Phone’ (AKA Vega 5) product. As you might expect, we have had access to the phone during the development process, and I have to commend Pantech on the end product.    Although […]

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What Does Android 3.0 Support Do for QuickLogic?

As always, thanks for visiting us at QuickLogic HotSpots.  The steadily growing traffic we see is very encouraging, and we hope you find this useful.   Now onto business… Following up today’s press release on Android 3.0 support… The jump from Android 2.3 (or 2.2, as my phone stubbornly refuses to relinquish–here’s looking at you, AT&T!) […]

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Smartphone Battery Life: A Consumer POV

Some interesting statistics on smartphone battery life: JD Power’s survey says only 8% of smartphone users are satisfied with their battery life: https://rohansood.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/iphone-takes-top-spot-in-us-smartphone-satisfaction-stats/ Only 6.6% of Japanese smartphone users are completely satisfied with their phone battery life, with more than 65% dissatisfied: http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/02/15/battery-dissatisfaction-high-amongst-smartphone-users/ 80% of Nokia customers in China dissatisfied with battery life of their […]

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A New QuickLogic-Authored Article

From Communications Components Magazine’s (Taiwan) special June issue on mobile phone components, I bring you “QuickLogic’s Visual Enhancement and Display Power Savings CSSP Chips Integrated into a Mobile Device”. A link to the original simplified-Chinese text is up at http://shop.quicklogic.com/in-the-news/, or you can access the file directly at http://shop.quicklogic.com/assets/press/CCM-Article.pdf While this article is perhaps more […]

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How to Mute CNBC and Play a Movie at the Same Time…

Brian, one of our frequent readers and commentors here on QuickLogic’s HotSpots inquired on my last blog with the question below: The RGB-split accepts one incoming signal and splits the signal between to two displays (i.e. one image spread over two displays). Down the road do you envision an RGB-split capability (or a market need) […]

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The RGB-split Competitive Landscape

Building on today’s “RGB-split for Foldable Tablets and Smartphones” press release, I wanted to spend a bit of time talking about current competitive approaches to splitting display signals. First, a bit more on RGB-split. What is does: it accepts a single incoming MDDI or RGB display signal (from the applications processor/CPU) and splits it to […]

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QuickLogic’s Presentation from Digitimes Technical Forum

You can view QuickLogic’s presentation from the Digitimes Technical Forum at the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgbgqh3rBYo […]

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Adding Silicon to Reduce Power?

During Uplinq last week, visitors to our booth were, among other things, given demonstrations of VEE and DPO.  One of the curious things that kept occurring was people trying to understand how we can reduce power with silicon.  I suppose for most techies, “adding silicon to reduce power” is in the vein of “jumbo shrimp” […]

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