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Ultra Cruise will become available when GM launches the Cadillac CELESTIQ.

The Ultra Question for Ultra Cruise

If GM says it’s safe for me to let the wheel go while fussing on my makeup, let’s see the data. 
Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO

Nvidia: Not ‘Just a Chip Company’ Anymore

Nvidia subtly shifts business model, stakes future on AI.

IoT Chip Suppliers Race for a Better Mousetrap

The battle over development tools to accelerate software/hardware co-design heats up among semiconductor companies

Cellular IoT: Can a Startup Revive a Stagnant Market?

Blues Wireless takes on the challenge of lowering barriers for cellular IoT developers—on both technology and business fronts
Brain and neural networks

Deep Learning, As You Know It, Will Never Be Good Enough to Trust

We’re running into a brick wall.
NASA chooses Microchip

Microchip: Riding RISC-V All the Way to New FPGA Platform

Five years after acquiring Microsemi, Microchip faces a bigger question: How can it advance FPGA architecture against competitors without diluting the legacy of an inherited technology?
Tesla's Model X dual motor all-wheel drive platform

Examining Tesla’s Claim on Drastic SiC Reduction

We asked Yole Intelligence to analyze what Tesla’s claim entails and the future of the SiC market.
Love has no algorithm

Love Has No Algorithm

When AI advocates discuss their specialty, they lay stress on the second word. It is wiser, however, that the rest of us focus, and dwell protectively, on the artificiality of AI.
Automation in Cars: OYR Web Panel

Automation in Cars: Promises & Fallacies

Panelists will speak on the growing confusion over different SAE levels, regulatory and legal challenges, and consumer protection.
Rupert Baines

Podcast: RISC-V Has Crossed the Chasm

Even a conservative company in, say, automotive, has become receptive to RISC-V, Codasip’s CMO Rupert Baines tell us.
Hidetoshi Shibata, Renesas CEO

The Man Who Put Renesas Back on The Global IC Map

During our conversation in Tokyo, Hidetoshi Shibata who took the helm of Renesas at age 46 in 2019 remained optimistic, forthright, and even self-deprecating.
financials, stock market

Renesas Aims High but Industry Cycle May Take a Toll

The new Renesas wants all the trappings of a valuable chipmaker — by 2030.
The Cabin Monitoring System (Image: Valeo)

Introducing the Immersive User Experience

Ahead lies a battle between the giants of the tech industry that will redefine the automotive digital cockpit and the in-cabin experience.
Luca Verre, Prophesee CEO

Prophesee’s Big Three: Sony, Qualcomm and Smartphones

Finally, event-based image sensors leveraging neuromorphic engineering principles come to smartphones.
Silicon Chip Design and Verification

Is That an AI in My Chip Design?

Given the enormous investment and risk going into chip design in the semiconductor industry, we need to ask just how advances in AI will affect electronic design automation (EDA) — the engine that makes chip design possible.
Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

Gauging ‘Reasonable Risk’ in ChatGPT

Does Missy Cummings want ChatGPT to write code? “No,” she says, “I don’t.”

ChatGPT & AI: Stop Panicking and Look at the Potentials

Fears about ChatGPT and AI are understandable but overblown. The economic opportunities are huge and they will outweigh the risks.
Pete Buttigieg

Open Letter to Pete Buttigieg

USDOT’s road safety strategy is focused on replacing humans as drivers, with no coherent plan in place to save lives by making human drivers safer.
ChatGPT phishing and vishing

ChatGPT is Turbocharging Fraudsters

Among the unintended consequences of OpenAI’s chatbot is a powerful new tool for scamming humans.
The Last of Us (HBO Max)

ChatGPT Will Eat Our Brains

The genie is out of the bottle; nothing will be the same again.

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