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
Posted: March 1, 2018 - Updated: March 21, 2018 Contributing Author: Daniel Yang & Stacy Wegner Samsung Galaxy S9 As we reported in our MWC18 blog, Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones were officially unveiled in Barcelona on Feb 25, 2018
Posted: March 15, 2018 Cost Comparison Observations As we did when the Apple X and Huawei Mate 10 phones were released, we have compiled a brief comparison between some of the biggest flagship phones out there… this time, centred around Samsung’s
Posted: February 27, 2018 Contributing Authors: Marty Bijman Recently, IAM’s Timothy Au posted a blog providing a look at Uber’s portfolio. The blog references Uber’s portfolio makeup, and provides a chronicle of their IP events over the last 5 years
February 16, 2018 Contributing Authors: Stacy Wegner, Daniel Yang, Kim Waterman The Apple HomePod, before it was sent to our labs Cost Comparison Observations Since the introduction of the Amazon Echo smart speaker back in 2015, OEMs like Google
Posted: February 7, 2018 Contributing Authors: Dirk Caspary, David Olaogbebikan and Martin Bijman It has been a year since Microsoft released the Azure IP Advantage program – a service that “provides the industry’s most comprehensive protection
December 12, 2017 Contributing Authors: Stacy Wegner, Daniel Yang Gear Fit 2 Pro SM-R365 As the gift-giving season approaches and people start dreading thinking of their New Year’s resolutions, the fitness wearable market becomes more active (pun
Posted: November 17, 2017 Significant intellectual property has been developed around these algorithms related to error correction, read-retry techniques, wear leveling, garbage collection, data flush, and data trimming, amongst others. Testing the
Posted: November 10, 2017, Updated: November 15, 2017 Contributing Authors: Al Cowsky, Stacy Wegner While Apple and Samsung have been engaged in a tug-of-war for the title of top-selling smartphone provider over the past couple of years, China’s
Posted: September 13, 2017, Updated: November 8, 2017 Contributing Authors: Daniel Yang, Stacy Wegner, Jim Morrison Apple iPhone X Apple used the tagline “Say hello to the future” to introduce the era of the iPhone X, and with the iPhone X in our lab
Posted: November 1, 2017, Updated: November 6, 2017 Contributing Authors: Al Cowsky While Apple and Samsung have been engaged in a tug-of-war for the title of top-selling smartphone provider over the past couple of years, China’s dominant OEM -
Posted: October 26, 2017, Updated: November 15, 2017 Contributing Authors: Daniel Yang, Stacy Wegner Typically we save these kinds of full-court-press teardown events for an Apple or a Samsung Galaxy, and no doubt we are gearing up for iPhone X quick
Posted: October 17, 2014 Samsung Galaxy Note 4 , Galaxy Alpha, and Apple iPhone 6 Phones Samsung released their latest 5.7inch flagship Galaxy Note 4 ahead of schedule in South Korea, and then followed it up with the release of the Samsung Galaxy
Posted: September 13, 2017, Updated October 17, 2017 Contributing Authors: Daniel Yang, Stacy Wegner We have completed the Apple Watch Series 3 teardown. We were especially interested in its cellular functionality, and whether the LTE chipset
Posted: September 10, 2017, Updated: October 11, 2017 Contributing Authors: Daniel Yang, Stacy Wegner, Ray Fontaine A11 Bionic Application Processor Applications Processor The iPhone 8 Plus A1897 model we examined initially is confirmed to contain
Posted: July 24, 2017 Contributing Authors: Ray Fontaine The third topic addressed in the IISW 2017 paper was an overview of the trends we’re seeing in pixel isolation structures. These structures are critical to the performance of 1.0 µm to 1.4 µm
