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PCTEL finds the dead zones before the emergency
An antenna is only half the wireless story. PCTEL builds the hardware that connects people and the testing tools that expose where the connection falls apart.
Single Digits and the business of being invisible
The Wi-Fi company discovered that selling software was only the beginning. Its real business was taking responsibility for everything between a guest’s device and a working connection.
The Chip That Changed Coolstar’s Mind
A Silicon Valley chipmaker set out to license a transistor. The harder lesson was that the useful product was the whole radio-frequency chip - and the heat it could spare a crowded Wi-Fi box.
Bigleaf Networks Bet That Your Internet Should Fix Itself
The Oregon networking company built a business around an unglamorous promise: when a circuit coughs, the cloud applications, phone calls and card payments should keep moving before anyone opens a ticket.
EPIC iO Bet the Camera Was Never the Point
The Fort Mill company is stitching cameras, sensors and wireless links into one operating layer for remote sites - a useful idea whose economics depend less on magical AI than on good placement, clean signals and humans who still make the call.
Dawn Callahan Built a Career by Saying Yes Before She Felt Ready
A production creative became a service-quality fixer, a cable marketer and the long-serving CMO who helped guide Boingo from startup to public company to private ownership. Her operating system is disarmingly simple: notice the problem, volunteer an idea and get comfortable being uncomfortable.
CEVA Sells the Part of the Chip You Never See - and Gets Paid Again Every Time It Ships
CEVA is the rare semiconductor company that does not need to manufacture a chip to collect from billions of them. Its bet is simple: as intelligence moves out of the cloud, the best tollbooth may be a small, power-efficient block of reusable silicon IP.
Fares Mubarak Is Making Wireless Sweat the Small Stuff
After three decades inside the chip business, Fares Mubarak is betting that the next computing bottleneck is not thought but conversation - the tiny, power-hungry wireless exchanges between intelligent devices.