Full profile interview
12 May 2022

Valencell
Valencell is one of the market leaders in providing PPG technology for wearable sensors/biometrics. Tess interviewed Dr LeBoeuf (President and Co-founder) about Valencell's development of cuffless blood pressure, hearables, and the shift in the wearable sector from fitness to health.
Full profile interview: SWOT
11 May 2022

General Vibration — Synchronising Multiple Haptic Motors
Full profile interview
12 Apr 2022

Embodied, Inc.
Embodied, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Embodied) is an American company specializing in social robots
7 Mar 2022

Sony and Honda Plan Electric Vehicle Joint Venture
Sony Group Corporation and Honda Motor Co Ltd have signed a memorandum of understanding that outlines their intent to establish a joint venture through which they plan to engage in the joint development and sales of high value-added battery electric vehicles and commercialize them in conjunction with providing mobility services.
Full profile interview
2 Feb 2022

Bosch Sensortec - Gas Sensors
Bosch Sensortec manufacture sensors for incorporation with consumer electronics. They have had success in integration of motion sensors into mobile devices and have expanded into pressure, humidity, and air quality sensing.
Background
18 Jan 2022

Sony Mobility Inc.
IDTechEx reviews Sony's plans to 'explore a commercial launch of Sony electric vehicles' with Sony Mobility Inc.
11 Jan 2022

Six Future Mobility Trends from IDTechEx Research
The mobility sector continues to see a rapid pace of change, enabled by technological leaps in the underlying componentry and materials, but there is still a long way to go. In this article Luke Gear, Principal Analyst at IDTechEx, explores six key future mobility trends, drawing from IDTechEx Subscription research.
7 Jan 2022

Sony Introduces Prototype Electric SUV
Sony announced and exhibited an SUV-type prototype vehicle (VISION-S 02) as a new form factor. This vehicle uses the same EV/cloud platform as the prototype (VISION-S 01), which is being tested on public roads.
30 Nov 2021

Lessons From a Decade in Wearables
Having covered this industry for the past decade, IDTechEx has developed an extensive database of historic and current market data. In this article IDTechEx will do something that is relatively unusual for a market research company to do: publicly compare old forecasts with what actually happened.
External press release
5 Oct 2021

Sony to Release Two Types of Stacked Event-Based Vision Sensors
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation announced the upcoming release of two types of stacked event-based vision sensors. These sensors designed for industrial equipment are capable of detecting only subject changes, and achieve the industry's smallest pixel size of 4.86μm.
Update interview
29 Sep 2021

Prophesee
Prophesee, developers of event-based vision systems and associated software, have recently launched a cheaper, more compact 4th generation of its sensors via a collaboration with strategic partner Sony. IDTechEx caught up with CEO Luca Verre to find out more.
Full profile interview
20 Aug 2021

Sony Semiconductor Isarel
Sony Semiconductor Israel is a company that provides cellular IoT chipsets for 4G/LTE-M and NB-IoT networks. IDTechEx spoke with Dima Feldman, VP of Product Management and Marketing in July 2021.
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15 Jul 2021

Micro-LED Displays From 2021 Onward
From mobile phones, TVs, to cars and public screens, displays have become an important component in daily life to convey information. The importance of displays becomes more significant during COVID-19, as the demand to have a display for remote communication is higher. There is an emerging display type— Micro-LED display, which has the potential to become the next-generation mainstream, with its ability to be fabricated from tiny to huge sizes. The challenges and opportunities are discussed in the IDTechEx report "Micro-LED Displays 2021-2031: Technology, Commercialization, Opportunity, Market and Players".
Full profile interview
26 May 2021

Qnovo
Qnovo are a small, US-based company developing and commercialising software for Li-ion battery management systems that can help to improve overall battery performance and safety. IDTechEx caught up with CEO, Nadim Maluf.
Topic overview
24 Apr 2021

Micro-LED Displays for 2021 Onwards
From mobile phones, TVs, to cars and public screens, displays have become an important component in our daily life to convey information. There is an emerging display type— Micro-LED display, which has the potential to become the next-generation mainstream.
External press release
16 Mar 2021

Worktop Integrated with Wireless Charging Technology
Wharf Worktops has mastered a pioneering technique to seamlessly integrate wireless charging technology beneath the surface of its worktops.
Update interview
2 Mar 2021

Dexerials
Dexerials is a Japanese manufacturer of functional materials, for use in electronic devices. Its main product is its anisotropic conductive film (ACF), for use in displays. Thomas Lynch, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, spoke to Tatsuo Nagamatsu and Koichi Hirose, about their work with ACFs.
25 Feb 2021

A Critical Year for Haptics as New Technology Options Mature
Investment and development in haptics is accelerating, and the supply chain providing the actuators, drivers and software behind these key components is evolving at a faster pace every year. IDTechEx's latest report on haptics, "Haptics 2021-2031: Technologies, Market & Players", predicts that the industry will be worth nearly $5bn in 2025.
External press release
24 Feb 2021

ACEO Launches Hard/Soft Multi-Material 3D Printing
WACKER's ACEO team launches another new-to-the-world material combination that allows silicone elastomers and epoxy thermoset materials to be printed in one single print. The resulting combination of hard and soft materials enables designers and engineers to develop new, highly functional applications.
15 Feb 2021

CVD Graphene for Electronic Applications: 2021 Status and Outlook
Given the exciting properties, graphene has always been linked as a revolutionary material for the electronics industry. CVD graphene is cited as the ideal solution in providing a perfect single layer produced in a low cost continuous R2R process, but the manufacturing and commercial reality have proved very different. After a long period of research, and with players regularly exiting and entering the field, we are only now starting to see this technology mature and the dawn of the commercial reality.