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The Cost Of IPhone XS Max: Does It Make The Price Look More Awful?
The newly released iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are now beginning to find their feet in the smartphone market. While the price of iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max has been a point of debate so far, it’s is interesting to find the cost of iPhone XS Max to
Apple iPhone Xs Max Teardown
Posted: September 17, 2018 - Updated: October 3, 2018 Contributing Author: Daniel Yang & Stacy Wegner It has become a tradition for us at TechInsights… as the beautiful Fall season rolls around, we all prepare for our Apple Day - the annual teardown
Webinar: Comparing leading STBs, Streaming Devices, and Smart TVs - A design and BoM perspective
Originally Presented: September 18, 2018 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm ET Hosted By: Stacy Wegner With a significant cord-cutting trend, much has been said about how operators are reacting and modifying their offerings to retain subscribers tempted by streaming
3D NAND Flash Wars Begin
Market overcrowding, more efficient manufacturing, and growing list of scaling issues create a challenging competitive landscape.
Autonomous vehicles: opportunities for innovation
The self-driving car will redefine personal mobility and change the way people think about cars, believes Jim Hines.
Samsung Galaxy Note9 Teardown
Unlock the secrets of the Samsung Galaxy Note9 with our teardown analysis. Explore the cutting-edge display, powerful processor, advanced camera system, and more that make this smartphone a technological marvel.
$8.5B For Auto, IoT, Security Startups
First-half funding analysis shows continued robust investment in tech.
Patent Portfolio Management: Finding the Right Balance of Quantity vs. Quality
Portfolio managers have different strategies for managing their patent portfolios. At a high level, most strategies pivot on a balance of quantity versus quality to achieve the desired business outcomes. These outcomes include: improving your brand
Automotive Patents: Owners, Technologies, and Investigating for EOU
Originally Presented: July 11, 2018 / 2:00pm to 3:00pm ET Hosted By: Jim Hines The automotive industry is facing disruption from new market entrants, emerging mobility business models and changing consumer attitudes about car ownership. The future of
Creating Better Applications Through Patent Strengthening
Patent strengthening is the term we use to refer to the process of achieving the greatest potential for value from a patent during the prosecution – before a patent is even granted.
First Look at Intel’s 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Die
TechInsights analysts have picked up Lenovo’s first 10nm CPU and taken it apart to take a look at the processor. This is the first time we’ve seem a Cannon Lake CPU in the wild, this is Intel’s much-maligned 10nm process and based on a 71mm Cannon
Intel 10 nm Logic Process Analysis (Cannon Lake)
Posted: June 12, 2018 Intel 10nm Logic Process Analysis TechInsights has found the long-awaited Cannon Lake - the Intel 10 nm logic process inside the i3-8121U CPU, used in the Lenovo IdeaPad330. This innovation boasts the following: Logic transistor
SK hynix 72L 3D NAND Analysis
Posted: May 31, 2018 SK hynix 72L 3D NAND Analysis SK hynix claims to have created the industry’s first-ever 72-layer 256Gb 3D NAND flash. This innovation has a block size 50% larger compared to 48-layer 3D TLC chips, it has a lower programming time
Philip Morris device knows a lot about your smoking habit
Unlike a conventional cigarette, the iQOS is an electronic device with circuitry that enables it to collect user information. A teardown analysis shows this could give the tobacco giant remarkable insight into people's smoking habits. Philip Morris
Micron 1x nm DDR Analysis
Posted: May 14, 2018 TechInsights has found the Micron 1x nm process in the Micron DIMM (DDR4) and Huawei Mate 10 (LPDDR4). This process brings about smaller die sizes and increased bit density over its predecessor, but it also presented a bit of a
Webinar: Black Box Reveal - Investigating Patented Technology in Challenging Product Areas
Originally Presented: May 3, 2018 / 3:15pm to 4:00pm ET Hosted By: Martin Bijman "Black box reveal" is the term we use to refer to “the hard stuff” – technology that, for one reason or another, is difficult to analyze for evidence of use. These can
Samsung’s Anti-Fuse Technology found on 18 nm DRAM
Posted: April 11, 2018 Contributing Author: Jeongdong Choe, Senior Technical Fellow We at TechInsights are happy to report that we have found and analyzed Anti-fuse array blocks on a Samsung 18 nm DDR4 DRAM die. Anti-fuse is one of the embedded NVM
Samsung Galaxy S9 Camera Teardown
Posted: April 9, 2018 Contributing Author: Ray Fontaine Our lab team has made good progress on structural analyses of the camera chips from Galaxy S9/S9+. While most of the details are reserved for our subscribers, we did want to share an overview as