Shares of Integrated Device Tech (IDTI) tried to break out in the stock market today as investors digested a new partnership. The chipmaker said it’s teaming up with Blu Wireless Technology to enable consumers to wirelessly charge their phones and tablets while streaming 4K HD video and photos to their televisions and computers. Integrated Device Tech has a highest-possible IBD Composite Rating of 99, meaning its shares outperform 99% of all
Teardowns of the Apple Watch are revealing which chip companies won Apple’s (AAPL) business for the new smartwatch. ABI Research broke open a sealed S1 processor in the Apple Watch to learn which chip companies supplied components. In a report posted Thursday, ABI said that the S1 chipset included chips from Broadcom (BRCM), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), SanDisk (SNDK) and STMicroelectronics (STM). The brains of the Apple Watch also included chips from AMS, Dialog Semiconductor, Integrated Device Technology (IDTI), Analog Devices (ADI) and the Elpida unit of Micron Technology (MU). Those chips run the gamut from wireless communications and flash memory to sensors. “A few of (the) key surprises in the design are two touch-controller design wins for ADI and the IDT wireless charging receiver,” ABI said. One loser was InvenSense (INVN), which lost the accelerometer-gyroscope component business to STMicroelectronics, the tech company Chipworks reported in its teardown….