Technology Focus Areas
At TIPRA, we focus our attention on a set of high-opportunity topics in which our global network partners possess particularly deep technical and market expertise. This focus enables your business to benefit the most from our insights and extensive industry contacts.
Our current focus areas include the following:
Communications/Wireless
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The telecom market, and especially the wireless sector, is facing major and complex issues around the world. But in spite of slowing economies, mobile is a major bright spot in the telecom market with lots of growth and excitement; mobile broadband modems and high-end mobile devices are triggering significant mobile Internet growth. TIPRA can help you to make well-informed business decisions requiring deep, up-to-date knowledge of markets, technologies, and opportunities, as well as vision and foresight for what is coming over the horizon.
- Wireless radio technologies, including 3G, HSPA, WiMAX, LTE, Femtocells, etc.
- Wireless access, backhaul and core networks, including IP networks, broadband access, etc.
- Mobile handsets hardware, including chips, packaging, multi-touch screens, multi-mode antennas, mobile modems, etc.
- Specific handsets such as BlackBerry, iPhone, G1, etc.
- Handset operating systems such as Symbian, Linux, Java, Microsoft and Android,
- Mobile services and applications, including mobile messaging, mobile Internet, multimedia apps such as Mobile TV, social networking, GPS / location based services, etc.
- Mobile advertising, encompassing topics such as ad campaigns, metrics, tools, business models, etc.
- Machine to Machine (M2M) applications including RFID solutions, Near Field Communications (NFC) solutions, sensor networks, etc.
- Mobile security applications including mobile signature, identity management, mobile payments, mobile banking, mobile healthcare apps, etc.
Photonics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology
Photonics, MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems), and nanotechnology are the highest of high-tech, but are increasingly incorporated into familiar products such as cell phones, computer games, and medical devices. TIPRA can help you to understand the implications and make use of these new technologies that are enabling undreamed-of functionalities and stimulating extraordinary market growth.
- Fiber optic communications devices and systems
- Photonic and electronic component packaging and interconnects
- Input/output hardware, optical and acoustic
- Biophotonics and microfluidics
- MEMS devices, fabrication, processes, and integration
- Optical MEMS (MOEMS)
- Optical and nanostructure lithography
- Nanopositioning and instrumentation
- Nanomaterials and quantum dots
Computer Systems
Computers have become the engines of modern living and civilization. They are also the most complex machines on the planet and push the state of the art in nearly every technological area, from hardware to programming to reliable system design. In today’s dynamic market of multi-core processors and systems, rapid adoption of new technologies is essential to compete. TIPRA can help manage IP portfolios, collaborate with product engineering teams, develop strategic partnerships, and help structure and close deals for mergers and acquisitions.
- Liquid and two-phase cooling components and subsystems
- Multichip modules, packages, and cards
- Fiber optic arrays, optical interconnects, and parallel links
- Threading and parallelization
- Virtualization
- Multi-core systems
- Fault management architecture
- Dynamic monitoring and control