The current wave of "always-connected, always-on" devices requires complex SoCs to achieve the performance and low power consumers demand.

ENGADGET: ARM, Samsung, IBM, Freescale, TI and more join to form Linaro, speed rollout of Linux-based devices

My current paradigm is that a five-wave pattern has just been completed, and so there is a chance for a correction of this latest move.

FORBES: Elliott Waves Point To Apple Turnaround On The Charts

Beyond these current storage products by established storage companies there is a wave of start-up companies working to enhance flash memory performance, increase its endurance and lower its costs.

FORBES: Explosive Growth in Flash Memory Enterprise Applications

These systems powerful graphics-processing capabilities promise to make the next wave of videogames far more immersive (and addictive) than current titles.

FORBES: Michael Noer On Digital Entertainment

And times are still tough for middle-class Americans, who have been swimming against the current for years before this economic tidal wave hit.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Visits Wind Turbine Blade Plant

As he said to me yesterday, he is concerned that the current wave of protest votes against excessive executive pay could turn out to be a passing fad - and he therefore wants a constitutional change that would lead to a permanent transformation of big institutional shareholders into properly informed and engaged proprietors.

BBC: What kind of democracy for votes on bosses' pay?