All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Hardware

The current optoelectronics market for GaN dwarfs applications in the high-power electronics category, which will remain the case unless comparable GaN-on-silicon technology is enabled.  Currently, SiC and GaN are designated for high-end defense-related electronic applications, and it will...

GaN and SiC high-power devices offer great promise.  The key concerns are the high cost of starting substrates and the device manufacturing cost (and yield in production).  Silicon power devices will be difficult to replace in traditional design spaces for these reasons.  A large-market application...

What if Apple losses? What will happen to one of its core revenue makers? What if Apple wins? Who else wins and loses?

In addition to e-mail and other functionality required by mobile business users, RIM's BlackBerry also has significant information security advantages. The cost of data leakage, particularly in highly-regulated industries such as Financial Services and Pharma, drives corporate IT departments...

Major Impact on Outsourcing market for Mid Size Corporations Probably no Impact on Outsourcing Market for Large Corporations

Sprint seems to be in the news daily with either Duetsch Telecom trying to buy them or at least thinking about it and with their consortium 4G wireless thing with Clearwire being built this year ahead of VZ's long term evolution (LTE) rollout entry into 4G wireless.  Sprint's purchase/merger...

1. RIM apps are built in J2ME (Java 2, Micro Edition). 2. Apple iPhone now supports native (compiled) apps with full access to iPhone functionality. 3. The result is that vertical applications; sales automation, field support, data recording ... will be better served by the iPhone

IPhone -- despite it's high price -- still lacks basic apps that are going to drag it down while other web-ready handsets evolve to include/improve: 1. Only one window open at a time 2. No word processor 3. No attaching documents/pictures to emails 4. Lacking plug-ins/YouTube competitors As an aside,...

Apple and RIM have two different target markets RIM is a savvy and agile player who has fended off challengers with for more experience Apple has yet to have a successful commercial / enterprise product

The idea of networking computer-like devices such as Blu-ray high definition DVD players is a great idea and it opens a world of opportunities for any box maker that is using his thinking cap.  Any devices that connect to the internet via hardwire ethernet or wireless router connection, such as...