DFJ Mercury

Tencent Looks to Boost Mobile Content with GameSalad Partnership

Blair Garrou — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:46:35 +0000

Graphicly’s Micah Baldwin: Why Storytelling Matters

Blair Garrou — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:31:02 +0000

ARM’s Next Big Opportunity is in Really Small Devices

Tolonye — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:42:53 +0000

18 New Companies Join EE Times List of Emerging Startups

Tolonye — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:11:17 +0000

Alert Logic moves into Top 5 HBJ listing of Largest Houston Software Development Companies

Blair Garrou — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:36:11 +0000

Amazon’s Secretive Cloud Carries 1% of the Internet

DFJ Mercury — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:11:27 +0000

Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure is growing so fast that it’s silently becoming a core piece of the internet.

Koupon Media Raises $4.5M for Streamlined Mobile Coupon Platform

DFJ Mercury — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:56:26 +0000

Since nearly everyone has a smartphone these days, retailers have flocked to mobile coupon services to do away with hard-to-track paper coupons. Koupon Media just closed a $4.5 million round of funding to offer mobile coupons and analytics tracking.

Graphicly Kills Its Mobile Apps To Double Down On Publishing Tools

DFJ Mercury — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:09:57 +0000

Graphicly started to abandon its vision of becoming the “iTunes of comics” and instead focused on digital publishing tools for comics and other image-heavy books.

Behind A Pivot: Graphicly Closes Marketplace, Refocuses Business

DFJ Mercury — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:03:27 +0000

Digital comics player Graphicly is shutting its mobile marketplace, shifting from being a distributor to a cross-platform, creator-focused publishing solution.

Ambiq launches nanoampere RTC chips

DFJ Mercury — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:38:49 +0000

Ambiq Micro Inc. (Westlake Hills, Texas) has announced the introduction to the market of the AM08XX and AM18XX real-time clock (RTC) chips, which the company claims are the world’s lowest power RTC chips. The typical active current is between 15 and 55 nanoamperes, Ambiq said.

The chips are intended to help control power-sensitive applications such as real-time backup, wireless sensors, tags, smart cards and security tokens, utility meters, dataloggers and handsets.

The AM08XX product family is a functionally diverse RTC family that replaces existing, more power-hungry RTC products. Variants of the AM08XX product family are footprint compatible with popular RTC products currently on the market and cover SOIC-8 and QFN-16 package types and I2C and SPI serial communications options and varieties of on-chip SRAM up to 256-bytes. The AM18XX product family includes all functions in the AM08XX family but also includes power management functionality that enables system-level power savings.

The AM18XX-EVK evaluation kit, which provides access to all input and output signals on the RTC, comes in the form of a motherboard that connects to a PC through a USB cable.

Ambiq did not provide a price for the ICs or the evaluation kit or state whether it is able to supply in volume.

Ambiq entered the Silicon 60, EE Times’ list of emerging startup companies at version 12.5 in April 2011, which is the subject of a detailed technology and employment digital edition which can be accessed via

http://e.ubmelectronics.com/Silicon60/index.html