MarketsandMarkets forecasts an 8.06 percent compound annual growth rate for the image sensor market by 2020 to reach a total market value of $15.77 billion and cites that trend to new CMOS design and fabrication technology. The market research firm said Thursday that companies emerging to develop the market include Aptina Imaging, Canon, CMOSIS, OmniVision Technologies, ON Semiconductor, Samsung Group, Sony, […] More

IBM said that in 2013, its inventors have received 6,809 patents, the 21st consecutive year that the company ranked first in the annual list of patent leaders in the country. Some of the company’s patents for 2013 include inventions for the Watson supercomputer, neuromorphic and synaptronic spiking neural network and an automated validation and execution […] More