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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?
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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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Will Your Next Car Replace You, or Just Improve Your Driving?

Highly automated vehicles aren’t the only path to safety. Vehicles that understand human drivers and manage their behavior suggest a better, faster path to prevent accidents.
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U.S. Puts China in a Semiconductor Chokehold

Concluding that China is both a security threat and an unfair economic player, the U.S. will block Beijing’s access to chip technology.

Investment Opportunities Abound in Africa’s Tech Communities

A new generation of ‘Afropreneurs’ is turning the continent into ‘the next digital growth frontier.’
Nvidia Drive Thor

Autonomy Race: Nvidia Ups Ante With 2,000 TOPS ‘Superchip’

In unveiling Thor, the company’s new automotive SoC, Nvidia touts “greater computing performance in the vehicle equals greater safety.” Is that a valid argument?
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Silicon Labs Targets a ‘Mature’ IoT Market

Betting the farm on the internet of things, the Austin chipmaker seeks to separate itself from other IoT entrants.
Drowsy Driver

Drive ’Til You Can’t, Then AV Aids Kick In

The utopian vision of drivers relaxing while their cars drive themselves is a mirage. Instead of making it their mission to replace human drivers, automated-vehicle technologies should concentrate on helping those drivers cope with emergencies.
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Taiwan Gamer EVGA Ends Nvidia Relationship

Its decision not to offer Nvidia’s next-generation series stems from a disagreement over business practices that is likely to roil the PC graphics industry.
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What Caught Our Eye This Week

Pressure builds to curb congressional tech stock transactions.
Cruise in San Francisco

Cruise Gambles on a Build-Your-Own Strategy

The autonomous driving company wants to design everything from a central compute engine to a radar chip for its vehicles.
Capex

Semiconductor Capex Cutback Inevitable as Downturn Looms

Semiconductor capital expenditures will be sharply reduced next year in response to an expected sales downturn.
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Google, NIST Launch License-Free Chip Production

The new effort aims to spur semiconductor and nanotechnology innovation.
Future of Automotive

SiFive’s RISC-V Processors Challenge Nvidia’s Auto SoCs

The portfolio will target ADAS and AV markets that SiFive says are being ill served by Arm-based incumbents.
U.S. chip manufacturing

Intel Touts DoD As Another Future Foundry Customer

The U.S. chipmaker’s participation in Pentagon initiatives has yielded test chips that could be manufactured at planned fabs.
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Kelly Peng Sees Smart Glasses in Your Future

Will Kura’s Gallium succeed in prying the smartphones out of consumers’ addicted hands?
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What Caught Our Eye This Week

Intel to India: No thanks; CHIPS Act funding by spring 2023?
Just-in-Time inventory managment

Just-in-Time is Neither Dead, Nor on Life Support

Just-in-Time inventory management system is being considered again by manufacturers that only recently questioned its continuing relevance.

Training Future Engineers in the Semiconductor Metaverse

Could a metaverse of virtual fabs help close the semiconductor industry’s design and manufacturing skills gap?
Phil Koopman

Podcast: How Safe Is Safe Enough?

AVs can’t be more dangerous than human drivers. But is ‘safer than human’ safe enough?
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