It’s a Done Deal - Qualcomm acquires NXP Semiconductor! With the experienced skill set from both chipmakers, advancement in IoT, wireless connectivity and in the smartphone industry should skyrocket with dramatic expectations to come particularly in the automotive and security chip markets. More details here: http://www.smart2zero.com/news/qualcomms-nxp-takeover-will-shake-automotive-chip-world
IBM Watson, the well-known system that gathers unstructured data from millions of different reports to thousands of news articles, unlimited social media posts to in-depth business systems content and breaks it all down for us. IBM Watson scrutinizes any given question and processes every single possible scenario in order to present the best evaluated answer and solution providing supportive evidence. See what IBM Watson is up to now: http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/10/25/new-ibm-watson-data-platform-puts-machine-learning-into-the-hands-of-everyone/#6c25b5917e60
Counterfeit electronics is still a multi-billion dollar problem in the semiconductor industry. Even though manufacturers take precautions with the best anti-counterfeit measures, there is still no single solution to promise authenticity of a component. We are all aware of various brand protective technology in existence today such as the DNA technology as well as the AS6081 standard, now take a look here to read about microtags: https://epsnews.com/2016/10/26/25973/
