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Rearview Mirror embedded with driver monitoring system

Can Seeing Machines Become the ‘Mobileye’ of In-Cabin Vision?

Auto manufacturers are under heavy time pressure to install required driver and occupant monitoring systems. Partners Magna and Seeing Machines view it ‘once-in-a-life time’ opportunity.
nanoelectronics and materials research

Modeling the Semiconductor Devices of the Future

Among the emerging chip-modeling tools is a proposed ‘virtual fab’ scheme promoted by TSMC.
Dragon ink brush painting

TSMC Blooms But Tech Cold War Looms

The fab leader blows through analysts’ forecasts, but dodges questions about China.

Playing the Long Game on Semiconductor Manufacturing

Micron joins a growing list of U.S. chipmakers expanding fab capacity. How much is enough?
TSMC investment in EU under European Chips Act

TSMC Contemplates a European Fab

Courted by E.U. officials, it remains unclear what foundry services TSMC could provide.

7 Reasons Why Mobileye Must Go Public—Now

Now is not the time for investors to pooh-pooh Mobileye’s contributions to ADAS and AV development. It is however a good time for Intel to grab a short-term gain by spinning out Mobileye.
Aerial view of the STMicroelectronics plant in Catania, Italy.

ST Joins SiC Vertical Integration Race

Every SiC device supplier wants to control everything from SiC substrate to device manufacturing. Who’s doing what and where?
Cartie-Bresson's first Leica

Attack of the Feature Creep

Digital devices offer choices so numerous that the user is helpless to choose.
brittle AI

Moving Beyond ‘Brittle’ AI

Current machine learning models are unsuited for risky applications like autonomous driving.

Samsung Won’t Provide SoftBank With Arm Closure

Softbank will only prolong its Arm problem if Samsung Electronics gets involved.
pruning AI startups

AI Hardware Startups Ready for Pruning

Our survey reveals a crowded sector more ripe for M&As than IPOs.
AI technology startup

Who’s Who in AI Hardware Startups

About 90 startups are focused on various segments of the AI hardware market.
semconductor manufacturing and research legislation

U.S. Taps Semiconductor Execs to Map R&D

Ex-Applied Materials, Analog Devices officials will head an advisory panel for disbursing CHIPS Act research funding.
Nakul Duggal on stage at The Autonomous

Qualcomm’s Automotive Gambit: Doubling Down on Smartphones

Many automotive experts doubted Qualcomm’s ability to make inroads into the automotive market. Not anymore. How did Qualcomm gain respect?
in-memory computing and AI

Inside In-Memory Computing, and Why It’s Back

Accelerator chips tailored for deep learning place scads of computing elements near, or in, memory to parallelize the massive computational load.
Like All Deals in China, Expect Strings Attached to Nvidia/Arm

Push Comes to Shove in China Tech Competition

China’s huge market potential once blinded foreign governments and investors to the dangers inherent in its Communist system. No longer.
vehicle electronic control

Can AI in AVs Go Beyond ‘Perception’?

Infineon believes there is a way to apply machine-learning algorithms to reduce the cost and power consumption of highly automated vehicles.
virtual reality goggles

Measuring the Metaverse Against Reality

Our upcoming webinar will sort the hype from the reality of leveraging virtual worlds.
semiconductor technocracy for CHIPS Act

U.S. Semiconductor Technocracy Falls Into Place

A National Semiconductor Research Center could be operational by the end of 2023. Will it accelerate chip innovation?
electricity

Electricity is the New Oil

Buoyed by the success of electric vehicles, other transportation sectors including planes, boats and trains are following their own paths toward petroleum replacements in an attempt to lower emissions.
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