2016

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• Semiconductor Mergers and Potential Mergers in 2015-6
• iPhone 7 Teardown
• 3D Semiconductor Evolution
• iPhone SE Teardown​
• Amazon Semiconductor Drive​
• Semiconductor Startup Acquisitions in 2016
• Image Sensors and Cellphone Camera Performance
• Amazon to Sell IC for Reaching the Cloud

2015

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• China Increasing IC Power
• Apple's iPhone, iPad Secret Sauce—Semiconductors
• Surprise, Samsung's A9 Processor is 9% Smaller than TSMC's in iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6s Teardown: A9, M9 Processors Secret Sauce
• ISSCC 2015—Latest Circuits Innovations ​
• Apple Watch battery Life, A5-Caliber CPU Inside​
• ​Chinese $80 Billion Fabless IC
• SSD Controllers, Still Secret Sauce (Silicon Motion)​
• Top Semiconductor in 2014 and 2015?​

2014

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• Apple Ask Samsung for iPhone 6 Parts
• China Cellphone Growth in 2014-5​
• TSMC, MediaTek, and Hynix: Sales >20% in 2014​
• iPhone A8, A9—Samsung or TSMC ​
• iPhone A8, A9 and Second Sources
• Apple's iPhone 6 A8 Teardown​
• iPhone 6+ Secret Sauce
• Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, and China
• Top Semiconductor (1st Qtr 2014) Vendors
• eMMC/ eMCP - Samsung lose, Hynix gain $1.7Bil
• Galaxy S5 BOM $256, iPhone $191, $173
• ​Qualcomm's SoC Road Map for 2014, 2015
• Top Semiconductor Ranking for 2013
• Self Encrypting SSD (SED) to Rescue Security/Privacy?
• Qualcom, MediaTek Processor Chip Race
• Apple A8 (Next Processor Chip)
• Mac Pro Teardown — Semiconductor Chips

2013

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• Xbox, PlayStation 4 $332 Manufacturing Cost
• China and 2013 Semiconductor Sales
• iPad Air Cost $274, Sell $499
• iPhone 5s Teardown
• Longest Battery Life Smartphone: Moto X (Teardown)
• Update: Chromcast Use Marvell and Azurewave
• Smartphone: MediaTek Overtaking Qualcomm
• Update: Samsung Fab. Apple A9 Processor?
• Samsung 3rd Foundry Ranking, Soon 2nd?
• Latest Transistor Channel (Moore Law Getting Too Expensive)
• 30% Faster Smartphone w/FinFET Atom (Intel)
• Interconnect Issues: History and Future Prospects
• SSD Market Share by Technology, Application, and Company
• 20% of Tablet Application Processor Grabbed by Chinese Vendors
• 41.6% Worldwide Growth of Smartphones in First Quarter
• Smartphone/ OS Market share: Apple, Samsung, HTC…
• Google and Facebook Shaking Server Market
• First Time Smartphones Outsold Feature Phones
• Top Semiconductor Ranking 2012 (Sales, Growth)
• ​Tablets are the New Mobile
• Next iPhone and iPad Microprocessor
• Semiconductor Moore's Law Running out of Money
• IBM: Fab Future Beyond FinFETs
• ISSCC 2013 Digital Trends in High Performance
• 2013 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)​

2012

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• Apple iPad 4 – A6X Teardown
• ISSCC 2013 Preview​
• ​Inside Microsoft Surface and Amazon Kindle Fire HD
• Microsoft Surface Teardown
• Android vs. iPad Sales 48% to 52%
• Google, Facebook Top Buyers of Intel Server Chips
• Apple Cuts Samsung Orders: Lawsuit's Impact?
• IBM Ecosystem: $1 billion Drives 40% Profit
• Apple Seeks Injunction Against Old Samsung Phones
• Apple vs. Samsung: Not Really an Apple Win
• Intel: Tremendous Growth of Clouds' Servers
• Apple Slipping Smartphone Market Share (Samsung Patent Litigation?)
• Apple iPhone 2x Profit vs.iPad
• ARM, TSMC Following Intel Lead
• iPhone: Quad-Core Processor
• Status of China's Fabless Model
• Cache SSD Shipments to Explode
• Apple's iPad, iCloud Drive Semiconductor Industry
• Cloud Storage, Servers Drive IC Demand
• Intel, Google, and Smartphones
• Apple Television; Interface, Design, App…
• Intel Roadmap to 2015 and Beyond: 5 nm Technology
• Intel: Installed Base Adv. for Tablets, Window8 vs. Arm Processor
• Apple's A5 Die Shrink, Improve Battery Life, Cut Cost
• Micron Technology Likely Winner, Buying Chipmaker
• TSMC To Makes Processor Chip For Apple? Not So Quickly
• Intel, AMD, or ARM Holdings Servers?​
• Top 25 2011 Semiconductor Sales Ranking
• Six Technologies that Save Smartphone Batteries
• Is Samsung Cutting Qualcomm's Cord?
  
• Qualcomm, Intel Fastest Growing Semiconductor Companies​
• New iPad Teardown: Why Apple's A5X Uses 45 nm
• Moore's Law End? (Next Semiconductors Gen. Cost $10 Billion)
• Storage Performance Affect Smartphone Performance

2011

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• ​Intel 22nm 3D Tri-Gate FinFETs Transistors: Faster, Cooler, Smaller
• Semiconductor News: Japan Earthquake Impact Electronic Supply Chain
• ISSCC 2011 Highlights- 20-nm Process Challenges, Samsung 512-pins DRAM, Intel SandyBridge, AMD Bulldozer
• Semiconductor News: TI, Qualcomm, Samsung Tablet Processors
• Upcoming 2011 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)​

2010

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• 2010 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) Updates
• Semiconductor IC Ranking 2009 (Samsung, Hynix growing, SanDisk surprise)​
• Google Nexus One Carries $174.15 Materials Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals
• Comparing iPhone, Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola

2009

• ​How much of a lead does Intel have at 32 nm and for High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) Technologies?
• Semiconductor Industry Trends in Light of 2008 Economic Upheaval
• Semiconductor IC Ranking Q3 2009 (fast growth at Samsung, Toshiba, Hynix, Micron)
• Flash Memory Summit 2009: Fusion-io, STEC, Denali and Other Presentations
• Semiconductor Inventory and its Impact on Electronic Supply Chains- iSupply
• ​Semiconductor IC Ranking Q2 2009(Climbing TSMC, Hynix, MediaTek Droping AMD, Freescale, Fujitsu)
• New SSD X25 Reviews and Benchmarks
• Apple iPhone 3GS Teardown (Reverse Engineering) of Chip Components and Software Capabilities
• Palm Pre Teardown
• Q&A: Analogic CEO
• Semiconductor Companies Q1 2009 Market Shares (Q4 2009)
• Is Mobile Computing the Next Big Market?
• SandForce Brings MLC to Solid State Drives (SSD)
• Faster Cheaper Solid-State Hard Drive
• ISSCC 2009
• ISSCC 2009 Preview
• China's Semiconductor Industry
• Semiconductor Industry Rankings for First Three Quarters of 2008​​

2008

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• Samsung Buying Sandisk? (Update)
• Samsung Buying Sandisk?
• Status of Semiconductor's Intellectual Property (IP)
• Learning Curve Leads to Shakeout in SSD Market
• 2008 Semiconductor Industry Rankings — IC Insights
• Netbook (or Low Cost) PC Market
• Intel's SSD Drives
• Samsung Electronics and Sun Microsystems Increased 5x Endurance of Solid State Drives (SSD) with 8 Gbit Single-Level-Cell (SLC)
• Update — Apple’s iPhone 3G Semiconductor Parts
• Solid-State-Based Lighting Could Cut the Energy Used by Lighting in Half, Says the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
• Leave Laptop at Home and Travel with USB Key Drive Instead
• VLSI 2008 Circuits Program
• Trends in the Wi-Fi industry — Michael Hurlson of Broadcom
• Trends in Storage, the Economy, and Network — LSI CEO Abhi Talwalkar
• Seagate Technology, the World's Largest Maker of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) Sues STEC, a Small Solid-State Drives (SSD) Maker
• Faster SSD Appearing in the Market (estimate 200MB/sec)
• iPod Touch Components likely to be in Future of the iPod line — iSuppli Tear Down
• Evolution of Components in Smartphones
• Taiwan IC Designers Venture into New LED Applications
• MTRON 32GB SSD vs. Seagate and Samsung 's SSD
• 2008 Semiconductor Industry Growth and 2007 Rankings and Revenues — iSuppli
• ISSCC 2008 Highlights
• Counterfeit Part's Impacts on the Semiconductor Industry
• Chipmakers Must Shift from Fabs to Systems — Infineon CEO​

2007

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• A Very Low-Power Analog-to-Digital (A/D) Converter Technology
• iPhone Semiconductor Components
• Key Developments in Intel's Quad-core, Penryn, Silverthorne & Mobile Processors
• Leading Chipmakers Push to Reduce the Specifications for ESD in Digital ICs
• U.S. Consumer Electronic Spending Slowed in 2006 to Half the Growth Rate in 2005
• SanDisk Introduces 32 GB SSD 1.8-inch Solid State Drive (SSD) as a Drop-in Replacement for the Standard Mechanical Hard Disk Drive

2006

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• U.S. Consumer Electronic Spending Slowed in 2006 to Half the Growth Rate in 2005
• SanDisk Introduces 32 GB SSD 1.8-inch Solid State Drive (SSD) as a Drop-in Replacement for the Standard Mechanical Hard Disk Drive
• Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Group Introduced a Chip-level Interface Standard for NAND Flash Memory