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Featured image of article: Newcomers protecting memory hardware innovations for Artificial Intelligence: how do their patent portfolio looks like? How do they compare to big firms?

Newcomers protecting memory hardware innovations for Artificial Intelligence: how do their patent portfolio looks like? How do they compare to big firms?

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – June 06, 2023 │ Since 2015, the number of new inventions for artificial intelligence applications focused on memory hardware has been booming. Here we look at the non-volatile memories, which are intensively investigated by semiconductor companies. Numerous patent applications relate to device fabrication, system architecture, selectors, and testing, and address major[…]

Featured image of article RF acoustic wave filters and RF front-end modules: Chinese companies MEMSonics and EPICMEMS are ramping up their developments. Cause for alarm?

RF acoustic wave filters and RF front-end modules: Chinese companies MEMSonics and EPICMEMS are ramping up their developments. Cause for alarm?

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – February 02, 2023 │ KnowMade introduces two newcomers from China (MEMSonics and EPICMEMS) who appear to be strengthening their intellectual property in RF technology. What do their patents reveal? MEMSonics and EPICMEMS: two good examples of rising RF front-end IP players For ten years, China has been the patenting activity hub[…]

Featured image of article SiC power semiconductor technology: A future battlefield in the US-China trade war? Wolfspeed on the front line.

SiC power semiconductor technology: A future battlefield in the US-China trade war? Wolfspeed on the front line

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – January 26, 2023 │KnowMade explains the critical role of intellectual property (IP) in the next decade of the power SiC market. In the escalating tech war between US and China over semiconductors, Wolfspeed is the main US player in the way of the rising Chinese SiC industry. The EV market: a[…]

Featured image of article Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs): a short review of innovators who are making the digital revolution more secure.

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs): a short review of innovators who are making the digital revolution more secure

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SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – December 19, 2022 │ The need for a strong security and authentication solution for the connected world creates new opportunities for both memory and IC players. With different technology offers and new companies coming in, competition is getting fiercer by the day, as we have seen by analyzing the patents in[…]