Next Generation NVM -- Wait Until the Music Stops

Paul Boldt posted on November 21, 2012

NVM - non-volatile musical chairs

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New Processor for iPad mini?

Paul Boldt posted on November 08, 2012

What's the difference between single and dual core? Sometimes nothing.

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Apple’s Representative Phone

Paul Boldt posted on October 29, 2012

A patent’s figures are often central elements to understanding the disclosed invention. They are also important for supporting the claims,...

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Apple’s More than a Little More

Paul Boldt posted on October 24, 2012

New iPad, new iPad mini, new iMac, and new Mac Mini...did we forget anything?

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Apple’s Lightning Cable - Audio Out?

Paul Boldt posted on October 16, 2012

There are costly options for existing iOS device users now faced with iPhone 5's Lightning connector, but will the people revolt as predicted?

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Spotlight on RE - Part Two

Paul Boldt posted on October 11, 2012

In some races, the first may not be the winner.

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AMD and the Z-60

Paul Boldt posted on October 10, 2012

Yesterday AMD announced their Z-60 processor for the tablet market. The announcement certainly stressed battery life and graphics. There i...

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Spotlight on RE - Part 1

Paul Boldt posted on October 03, 2012

With iPhone 5 pandemonium subsiding and teardown providers moving on, it's time to start analyzing Apple's latest product.

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The A6 has landed - sort of

Paul Boldt posted on September 17, 2012

Speculation around the design of the A6 reached a fever pitch in the last few days, and all that I have seen focuses on the particular variants of the...

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Intel v. ARM

Paul Boldt posted on September 06, 2012

Will Intel ever manage to gain a foothold in the mobile world dominated by ARM with its X86 architecture?

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Epiphany-IV 64 Core

Paul Boldt posted on August 29, 2012

64 processor cores - is supercomputing coming to a chip near you?

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Authentec Part 2 : What is lurking out there?

Paul Boldt posted on August 15, 2012

Paul Boldt reprises an earlier piece to uncover how Apple might incorporate Authentec fingerprint technology into future gadgets.

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AuthenTec ... another Apple acquisition

Paul Boldt posted on August 01, 2012

Apple gobbles up another technology company and Paul Boldt assesses the possible motivations.

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Semiconductor blogging and perpetual motion: Part 2

Paul Boldt posted on July 19, 2012

Paul Boldt takes a closer look at recent reports of "3D" technology.

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Semiconductor blogging and perpetual motion: Part 1

Paul Boldt posted on July 10, 2012

We can accept momentum loss in our physical world, but what about information loss in the blogosphere?

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Sine slice: who’d a thunk?

Paul Boldt posted on June 18, 2012

The Dragons like the fundamentals of Sine Slice, but what about the patents?

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Apple's A5 “single core” - why all the effort?

Paul Boldt posted on June 07, 2012

What is the meaning of "single core" in the Apple TV? Do you think Apple is choosing chips with a dead processor core for its hobby platform, or do you take sides with our own Paul Boldt and Don Scansen?

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Does Apple's US2012/0120076 mean retina display for the Macbook? Not

Paul Boldt posted on May 28, 2012

Does recently published Apple patent application US2012/0120076 suggest new retina displays for a rumoured June Macbook Pro refresh? To be kind, that is a s-t-r-e-t-c-h.

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