Heavy pondering over.... "high performance eFPGA #2",  Consider Xilinx says Inference of AI IS BEST DONE ON FPGAS....and none other than Facebook says it wants INFERENCE on the device....IF QUIK can articulate its IP to create what facebook wants in inference on the device.... the value of this IP is an order of magnitude more than the current valuation. Not a nice 50%, but an order of magnitude.

That is what the adjacent possible whispered into my ear with the closing," jfieb you better hold on to your part of this business, cause the adjacent possible is no longer a 5x8 broom closet, it's Facebook!

Some can sell their shares when they get above water, but I own part of this business to CHANGE my life NOT maintain what my family has known. ;-).

With eFPGA 2 Inference on the device ( Facebook has this vision ) is THE adjacent possible.  The Adjacent possible says so loud and clear.  This is really BIG and it is an order of magnitude.  A 5 x 8 broom closet can turn into Facebook, use that as a mental model of an order of magnitude.

Dr. Saxe you got this?

Yeah I know you saw it a while ago.  Thanks.




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Samsung Strengthens Innovative Wearables with Enhanced Under Armour Fitness Apps

USA on January 04, 2017

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Samsung Electronics  today unveiled a collaboration with Under Armour, the innovative and revolutionary sports apparel brand, to offer authentic fitness experience across a suite of Samsung wearable devices by combining Samsung’s industry-leading mobile technology with Under Armour’s connected fitness expertise. Whether users are tracking nutrition, daily workouts, running routes or simply seeking a digital personal trainer for added motivation, this best-in-class collaboration will keep users on top of their personal goals.

“This collaboration brings together the very best of Samsung wearable technology with the unmatched sports performance of the Under Armour brand,” said, Younghee Lee, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Wearable Business, Mobile Communications at Samsung Electronics. “Fitness enthusiasts will have a thrilling experience when it comes to the integration of practical design and intelligent applications for sports related activities.”

Mike Lee, Chief Digital Officer at Under Armour said, “We’re excited to work with one of the most recognized brands in the world to continue to bring value to our global digital community of more than 190 million users. Samsung is renowned for its innovative, stylish yet practical devices. This new collaboration will provide additional opportunities to further integrate personal nutrition and activity tracking technologies, allowing all athletes to meet their goals and perform their best.”

Under Armour will develop four of its globally renowned health and fitness apps for the Samsung Gear Fit2, Gear S2 and Gear S3, providing fitness enthusiasts with a seamless and convenient sports experience, as well as access to Under Amour’s digital community. The fitness apps will be available as part of the Under Armour Connected Fitness® suite including UA Record™, MyFitnessPal®, MapMyRun® and Endomondo™. Along with the integration, Samsung will offer unique functionalities to users of the Gear Fit2, Gear S2 and Gear S3.

App	Activity	Unique Features for Samsung
UA Record™	Dashboard for 24/7 activity, sleep and workout monitoring	Map and route display Untethered GPS tracking
MyFitnessPal®	Take control of your nutrition, calories and exercise by recording your dietary intake	Water consumption logging Quick-add calories
MapMyRun®	Capture every run, ride, walk and hike in one app	Challenges Untethered tracking
Endomondo™	Custom training plans, map tracking and ability to share your workouts	Challenges

Samsung Gear Fit2 customers will have access to the UA Record™, MapMyRun®, and MyFitnessPal® apps starting January 4, 2017 and the Endomondo™ app will also be available for Gear Fit2 in January. Samsung Gear S2 and Gear S3 customers will also be able to download the suite of apps in early 2017 with complete features.*

For additional product information, please visithttp://www.samsungmobilepress.com.

Samsung shifts focus to wearable healthcare devices

 January 14, 2017 Marko Maslakovic CES 2017, Smartwatch

Samsung Electronics recently unveiled a major shift in corporate strategy. It was widely expected the South Korean tech giant would use the recent Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas to show off their robots. This did not happen, and now we know why.

According to a report from Business Korea, it seems the company sees more growth potential in the wearable health sector than in manufacturing robots, which rivals such as LG showcased at the event. Samsung believes that an aging society will help this market segment grow more quickly.

“The roles of home robots recently introduced by home appliance companies can be realized by adding artificial intelligence (AI) to existing devices such as smartphones, TVs and IoT refrigerators,” a senior representative of Samsung Electronics’s Home Electronics Division was quoted as saying.

“Rather, we believe that health care based on wearable appliances has more future growth potential.”

Headquartered in Korea, Samsung operates in over 75 countries. In the wearables market, the company offers consumers devices such as smartwatches and activity trackers, as well as their Tizen open-source operating system. Samsung wearable devices give users quick access to their mobile device and help users track their fitness.

At CES 2017, the company unveiled its collaboration with Under Armour to deliver new fitness tracking devices. Furthermore, the American sports apparel brand announced it will integrate four fitness apps into the Samsung Gear range including Gear Fit 2, Gear S2, and Gear S3.

“There are many inconveniences of living when people become older. I think the wearable device business is what we are interested in and can do well.” Yoon Boo-keun, head of the CE Division at Samsung Electronics echoed the sentiment.

Samsung may be on to something. Despite a rather subdued market in 2016 and a few casualties such as Pebble, growth of the fitness tracker and smartwatch segment is expected to continue in the years to come. IDC predicts that annual shipments will more than double by 2020 to 213.6 million units per year.

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 In addition, Globalfoundries acquired IBM IBM -0.36%’s semiconductor group and formed a joint venture with the Chongqing government to expand manufacturing into China

Something like this....but its good rather than bad.

eFPGA is being licensed by several Tier-1 customers for integration into their SoCs. The Sr Application Engineer (AE) will be responsible for supporting QuickLogic’s licensees during Technology porting, customer evaluations, and SoC integration.

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• Good communication skills in English and Mandarin

It is very common among long term investors of this business to believe the following;

QUIK does not have anything of value because IF they did they would have been successful by now.

Use the above snip of text to let it start to sink in-QUIK's IP does have real and increasing value. And IF they run inference on the node?....Look out :-)

It used to be I could be criticized on this Adjacent Possible concept I use because QUIK is tiny and has finite resources; so don't talk about all this interesting stuff jfieb that QUIK cannot get to....get real.  Whats this got to do with QUIK anyway...

that criticism is no longer valid...QUIK does not have to do it themselves now..a Tier-1 can put the FPGA on their bench to make their vision of the IoT. :-)

Finally that slide from Needham...sort of blew me away, as I did not expect it...

PolarPro 2..High performance.  Starts at GF 22.  Gives me something to look forward to.  Is it for the edge?  something else?  I know running inference on the device...:-)

eFPGA will start with small, low cost, low power..........but Brian and crew have a vision of much more than that.  He said it will take a while, but that they will get there.

THAT IS WHY I ADDED THE PIC OF THE RICE TERRACES TO THE BLOG.  For me it was the best way to remember the heterogenious computing;  tiers of intelligence and processing and in the roadmap QUIK sees more tiers...........

Hi RC, hang in there,  lets do Bfast  SAT after the Feb cc?  BH 8am?  jfieb C U THEN.

just for fun....


http://www.mediatek.com/products/iot


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Organised by the GSMA, Mobile World Congress Shanghai (#MWCS16) attracts thousands of mobile industry leaders and consumers from around the world – making MWC Shanghai a truly unique and global event.

MediaTek will be speaking on ‘IoT as an integral part of everyday life with MediaTek’ and will also have a booth featuring products built using MediaTek technology.

• Internet of Things

For nearly two decades, our chipsets have formed the foundation for the Internet of Things (IoT). In 2015 alone, we enabled more than 1 billion consumer electronic products, including digital TVs, home audio devices, DVD/Blu-ray players, smartphones and tablets, networking and connectivity products, and many more. Year after year, we have focused on making our chipsets for these products more highly integrated, more connected and more power-efficient.

As chipsets get ever smaller and more power efficient, the devices they enable will allow people to manage and control their environments in new ways. We are on the forefront of leveraging our unique heritage to enable this IoT wave. We're creating platforms for location intelligence, smart connected health and fitness wearables, smart home devices and M2M products, with more to come.

MediaTek leverages mobile advantages to become technology enabler for IoT

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The rapid developments of IoT (Internet of Things) have brought new opportunities for silicon vendors. As a leading provider of mobile and TV chipsets, MediaTek has been putting lots of efforts in deploying IoT market over the past years, aiming to leverage its advantages in smartphone market to make inroads into the emerging applications.

"We have made significant progresses with several customers launching end products to the market," JC Hsu, corporate vice president and general manager of IoT Business Development at MediaTek, said. "We will keep building comprehensive IoT solutions and drive the industry moving forwards as a technology enabler."

Bring Mobile Advantages into Full Play

Hsu explained that IoT is a natural evolution from mobile Internet technology, along with the availability of telecommunication infrastructure. For a wide range of consumer IoT devices, low-power, connectivity, and multimedia are the key features, and these are the areas that MediaTek excels at.

"In terms of power consumption, IoT devices require more compact area but perhaps only one fifth of power budget. Similarly, connectivity includes cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other standard, thus we need to consider higher integration and interference issues in a smaller area. All these will be the critical factors for chip vendors to stand out from the competitive market."

"In addition, quality multimedia and camera functions are also essential. With our strengths in the TV, DVD, and mobile phone market, we are fully confident that we will be able to embrace new opportunities."

However, there are still plenty of challenges to be solved in the market. "IoT market is characterized by full diversity, small volume, multiple standards, security, and service-oriented vertical applications. Because of different functionality, specifications, and services, the turnkey solutions that used to be successful in mobile phone market can no longer fit. It challenges not only device makers' design and manufacturing ability, but also chip vendors' to provide total solutions."

Providing Solutions to Lower Design Barriers

In order to embrace market trends, according to Hsu, MediaTek is the members of GSMA, 3GPP, OIC (Open Interconnect Consortium), working with leading companies to participate in standardization process. Moreover, MediaTek's products are designed to support JD Cloud, Aliyun, OIC, and Apple Home Kit standards, as well as software and hardware development kits, in a bid to meet various product requirements.

Strategically, MediaTek will mainly focus on consumer market, where the company already has solid customer bases, and then expand to other applications, including industrial and automobile.

There are already some customers adopting MediaTek's MT2502 and MT2601 to develop a wide range of wearables, such as smartwatches, fitness bands, kid shoes, and bike computers. In addition, early this year, the company announced MT2511, its first bio-sensing analog front-end chip designed for health and fitness devices, to enable bio signal acquisition through electrocardiography (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) simultaneously. Another new product is MT7697, which delivers low energy Bluetooth and dual-band Wi-Fi for smart home and home automation products.

On the other hand, MediaTek endeavors to provide comprehensive hardware and software solutions and easy-to-use development platforms to help customer lower entry barrier and shorten time to market. At the same time, the company also actively builds an ecosystem, forming partnership with companies across different industries.

For example, by establishing MediaTek Labs, MediaTek tries to help developers and start-ups to quickly move from concept designs to mass production. With the market featured with small-volume but large-variety, it is difficult for developers and start-ups, which have very limited resources, to find manufacturing partners. "We hope to play a role between them and to fulfill both of their demands, so that these companies will be able to shorten time to market and get success."

Furthermore, MediaTek has actively sponsored several innovation competitions and cultivation programs in Taiwan and China to explore new innovative products and foster talents.

"Among them, Tinitell, a Sweden-based start-up, adopted our solutions to develop a wearable mobile phone for kids. By integrating 2G and GPS functions, the product can not only help parents track the locations of kids, but also talk to them directly. It was us that help Tinitell find a suitable manufacturer in China. This is a perfect example of how MediaTek Labs supports star-ups to launch products on market, because we believe that our success relies on customers' success", Hsu said

Innovation + Cross Cooperation to Shape New Landscape

As for industrial applications, Chunghwa Precision Test Technology Company (CHPT), a subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom, adopted MediaTek's solution to develop data acquisition equipment, heading to embrace the Industry 4.0 trend. Also, the smart remote control devices developed by China's BroadLink can be used to control home appliances through mobile apps, the first step to realize the smart home vision, and the products has been moved into mass production this year. These are some of the successful stories that MediaTek has achieved to diversify its customer base in IoT market recently.

In terms of automobile applications, according to Hsu, by combining cellular and GPS technologies, various connected car applications, such as fleet management and asset tracking, are increasingly popular, and this is the area that MediaTek can play an important role.

He emphasized that the success of IoT relied on the combination of business models, hardware devices, and applications. Because devices are of no fixed functions, it is very important for device makers to understand the requirements of end applications and to seek for cross-industry cooperation opportunities. For example, in-car OBD (on-board diagnosis) devices can be used to collect related driving information for the analysis of drivers' behavior. The device can have more add-on values if they are provided to insurers, so that they can design insurance policies with more flexibility based on customers' driving patterns. This is an example to show why the design concept of IoT devices can not only be purely hardware, because their true value lies in effective business models, and needs to leverage through cross-cooperation.

Many of MediaTek's design-win cases in wearables and smart home markets are from China. Hsu said, "With rich resources and a great deal of companies, it is true that they are moving quickly to grab the business opportunities. For Taiwan, I think the industry should make more efforts to enhance its speed and flexibility to make inroads into IoT. In order to achieve more concrete results, we need to keep driving innovation and cross-industry cooperation. We find that many of Taiwanese companies begin to be active in the market. It's a great sign. Under the mega IoT trend, we do hope to team up with more companies to reshape the future landscape."

There’s some signs that that situation might be changing. Recent rumors from DigiTimes’ ubiquitous “sources” imply that TSMC is losing some customer volume to GlobalFoundries. AllWinner, MediaTek, and Qualcomm have all reportedly cut 28nm orders at TSMC due to superior pricing from the firm’s rival. GlobalFoundries had nothing to say on the accuracy of such rumors,