February 22, 2012 – 3:51 pm
By Stephane Gervais-Ducouret — Augmented reality and immersive virtual reality can seem complex. These new technologies add contextual information to our environment in a seamless way, overlaying information about what we see around us based on where we are. Already used in smartphone applications, augmented reality navigates us through the quickest route to the nearest [...]
September 23, 2011 – 10:19 am
By Stephane Gervais-Ducouret — Last week, I joined more than 500 others at Semicon Taiwan, where the MEMS Forum received a lot of interest. The high growth and adoption of different MEMS sensors in mobile devices is expected to continue. iSuppli recently reported that global revenue from motion sensor technology is expected to expand to $2.1 [...]
September 2, 2011 – 11:07 am
By Stephane Gervais-Ducouret – I’m heading to Semicon Taiwan next week, where I’ll lead a session called “MEMS: Beyond Performance.” It’s incredible to look at the past year of advancements in the MEMS industry, including high performance MEMS for noise and sensitivity, very low-power (at a few microamperes), small size (down to 2 by 2 [...]
By Stephane Gervais-Ducouret – As its name suggests, technology and consumer acceptance of location-based services (LBS) was a hot topic at the Location Business Summit 2011. The summit included panel discussions and presentations from a diverse group of technology providers, device manufacturers, MNOs, retailers and service providers. Freescale participated, as well as Qualcomm, Nokia, KPN, Vodaphone, [...]
By Stephane Gervais-Ducouret Through my work on a recent presentation for the MEMS International Forum at Semicon Singapore (See “Inertial MEMS – Pervasiveness through Performance and Smartness“), I realized the progress that our devices went through in the last few years. Indeed, smart phones and tablets are currently available with sensors such as accelerometers, magnetometers, [...]
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