Adieu to Adele Hars (August 22, 1960 – July 23, 2023)
Journalist focused on microelectronics Adele Hars, contributor to The Ojo-Yoshida Report, passed away peacefully last Sunday in Paris.
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Digital Cockpit: Human Factors Do Matter
As computer drivers enable vehicle autonomy, here’s what carmakers can learn from the aviation industry.
Apple’s Display Tech Choice in Vision Pro
What’s at stake:
Displays inside Apple’s Vision Pro are based on Micro-OLED, most likely made by Sony, not the microLED technology in which Apple has invested decades of work and capital. What has gone wrong?
Automation in Cars: Promises & Fallacies
Panelists will speak on the growing confusion over different SAE levels, regulatory and legal challenges, and consumer protection.
The ‘Smart’ Home: If It Only Had a Brain
By David Benjamin
Once upon a time at the Consumer Electronics Show, the “smart home” was all the rage and just around the corner. It exploited a host of new technologies and launched great expectations for household convenience and connectivity. It was promoted and celebrated at CES in veritable floor shows on the show floor.
That was then. Now, in a panel discussion last week, six smart-home analysts enumerated the hitches and glitches that have kept most homes stubbornly stupid—or at least blissfully ignorant—for decades.
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CES Robocar Panel: ‘Humans Are in the Loop’
By David Benjamin
Call CES 2023 the Consumer Electronics Show of deferred dreams, during which some of high-tech’s loftiest aspirations seem to have hit a snag.
Thursday morning at the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center offered a vivid example of this theme, when a panel of automotive safety experts agreed that the dreamt-of era of autonomous vehicles (AV) is years away, a judgment rooted in the thorny issues of “how safe is safe” and how to get a partly, mostly or “fully” self-driving car to get along with the human “driver” inside.
Veoneer hosted the expert panel on “The Spinning Wheel of Technology – On the Road to Trusted Mobility.”
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Foxconn’s Automotive Ambitions Meet Nvidia’s Platform
Foxconn, a contract manufacturer of Apple iPhones, has forged a partnership with Nvidia. The move underscores the electronic manufacturing services giant’s pivot toward the auto market.
While bolstering Foxconn’s automotive ambitions, the deal announced during CES 2023 in Las Vegas also provides GPU leader Nvidia with a tier-one ally eager to extend deployment of Nvidia’s Hyperion development platform among a growing list of electric vehicle upstarts.
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What Caught Our Eye This Week
Infineon CEO Sees Acquisitions in its Future
The Ojo-Yoshida Report has recommended Infineon Technologies “bulk up with strategic acquisitions” to remain a “strong European brand for generations to come.”
That’s exactly what the German company has in mind, and is already on the lookout with acquisition plans “to boost growth,” according to a report citing CEO Jochen Hanebeck. Infineon is looking to spend “in the range of a few billion euros,” Hanebeck told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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China’s Alibaba Unable to Purchase Arm Designs
Western export controls are blocking China’s access to chip IP vendor Arm’s technology.
The Financial Times reports that China e-commerce giant Alibaba is among those unable to purchase Arm’s leading-edge designs.
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Globalization Dead? ‘Almost,’ Says Morris Chang
Globalization is “almost dead,” declared Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker.