In July of this year, we announced that QuickLogic would become the first programmable logic vendor to fully embrace an open source development environment. Specifically, we worked with Antmicro to create a fully open-source suite of tools for our QuickFeather development kit, which features our EOS S3 FPGA SoC platform with an embedded Arm® processor. […]
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Interview with QuickLogic CEO Brian Faith
On December 18th, GEORGE GILDER’S MOONSHOTS publication distributed an in-depth interview with QuickLogic President and CEO Brian Faith. (You might recall that Mr. Gilder added QuickLogic to his Moonshots portfolio in December of 2019.) The wide-ranging discussion touched on the transition the company is undertaking with its software and IP initiatives, opportunities for market expansion, […]
Monetizing Open Source
We unveiled our QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing (QORC) initiative in a June press release and added some background in our blog post titled “Tipping Point”. With this bold step, QuickLogic is the first Programmable Logic company to provide full open-source access to FPGA design and verification tools. The purpose of this blog post is to […]
The Tipping Point
Prelude… Exactly 117 years ago this week, Henry Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company. Ford didn’t invent cars, nor did Ford invent the manufacturing line. What Ford did do was to recognize the huge potential of blending an existing product (the car) which served a limited market with a new capability (the assembly line) to […]
Recent Events Important to QuickLogic’s Future Growth
Today we announced the pricing of an oversubscribed underwritten registered public offering of common stock that is expected to raise a total of approximately $8.75 million in gross proceeds, before deducting the underwriting discount and other estimated offering expenses. The proceeds will be used for several purposes, including the development of next generation new products, […]
How You Can Help Slow the Spread of the COVID-19 Virus
All of us at QuickLogic and SensiML hope that you and your families are doing well during these challenging times. Like most of you, my wife and I have been working from home for many weeks now, and my children have been participating in distance learning, so I am sympathetic to how the pandemic has […]
The Impact of Technology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
First of all, to anyone who has been directly affected or who has had family or friends directly affected by the current COVID-19 pandemic, our thoughts are with you. We also want to send our thanks and appreciation to all of those fighting on the front lines of this disaster, often risking their own health […]
Restructuring Announcement
Today we issued a news release discussing our plan to restructure our organization. These types of decisions are always difficult and we don’t take them lightly. To our valued employees who were affected directly, we’d like to express our sincere gratitude for your service to the company – we truly appreciate your effort and dedication, […]
Reverse Stock Split
Today we announced that the Board of Directors has unanimously voted to approve a reverse split of our shares. This action comes two weeks after we received overwhelming shareholder approval in our recent special meeting of stockholders on November 26. A link to today’s news release can be found in the Press Release section of […]
Licensing our eFPGA IP
You might have seen the press release that we issued this morning regarding Nations Technologies (a leader in China’s IC design industry) selecting our ArcticPro eFPGA for their next-generation low power IoT SoC. This press release reflects the formalization of the relationship we mentioned during our last earnings call. In that call, we discussed signing […]
