K Lightman writing from what she sees at CES.

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Karen Lightman
Executive Director
MEMS Industry Group

She knows it 

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Karen Lightman became MEMS Industry Group (MIG) managing director in 2007 and promoted to Executive Director in 2013.

What’s my number one? Something that I’ve known for a while but now really believe is the HOLY GRAIL to both the future success of wearables and IoT/Everything: POWER.  Power reduction and management through sensor fusion, power generation through energy harvesting as well as basic battery longevity. It became very clear from conversations at the MIG conference as well as in talking with folks on the show floor that the issue of power is the biggest challenge and opportunity facing us now.


The standard metric unit of power is the Watt. 

• The ArcticLink® 3 S2 at 150uW, the lowest power sensor hub for always-on, always-aware mobile applications, including hardware, software algorithms, and wearable and smartphone evaluation kits;

Nobody else puts in the right units....ATML G MCU?

 µA/MHz

U gotta do the story problem to get the real answer.  Obfuscation, see they DON"T want u to know the answer.

This is real time reporting from someone in a position to know what is the HOLY GRAIL....

its what QUIK is very good at.  

slide 11 goes here

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/QUIK/3854974132x0x803270/44b360e0-2975-4df0-b6c2-01a9fc14b9d3/QuickLogic_CES_2015_Presentation.pdf


QUIKs IP is increasingly valuable, not algo IP that they are building, but the whole way they have done the fusion.
It needs to be protected.  QUIK's slide deck still says patent pending.  They need to get the pending gone soon.

How is it coming QUIK.  It the Holy Grail now and some will want to take it. If you speak to management ask them how its coming.  Thanks in advance.