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Open Letter to Zuck: Prove to Us That ‘Ethics in Tech’ Is Not an Oxymoron

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Dear Zuck,

You can hide behind a rebranding, but you can’t run from your most egregious accomplishment: You’ve delivered, in a most terrifying way, on that infamous slogan of yours, “Move fast and break things.” You’ve broken people, societies and dented American democracy. What you’ve built is nothing less than “a toxic propaganda guidebook for the ages,” according to New York Times columnist Kara Swisher.

A New Semiconductor World Imagined

Featured, News & Analysis

By Bolaji Ojo

What’s at Stake?
The challenge posed by Nvidia – via its planned acquisition of Arm – to Intel’s x86 architecture is real and potentially unstoppable, and should not be casually dismissed. With a huge market at stake, we expect Intel to fight back hard. But no matter what kind of headwinds Nvidia faces from Intel, Arm licensees and international regulators, the deal signals that a new day is dawning in the chip market – one that will have major ramifications for all the players, and for consumers too.

Rest in Peace: Arm, 1990 – 2022

Featured, Opinion

Draft of a funereal eulogy to be read in the event of Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm Ltd.

So, farewell, Arm Ltd., you were a fine company. You were a child of Cambridge, England, but you only made it to 32 years old.

Nothing lasts forever. But some things and ideas last a long time and become part of the landscape, part of what defines what else can happen. And some things don’t last so long or cease to endure, and can be moved around or taken off the table for commercial benefit.

With HD Radar, Arbe Robotics Pits Price vs. Pride

Audition, Featured

By Junko Yoshida (additional reporting by Jenn Baljko)

What’s at stake?
Arbe Robotics, a 2015 Israeli startup that went public this month through a SPAC (special-purpose acquisition team), seemed to have a lot going for it in recent years. Today, it might be at a crossroads. Arbe’s overreliance on its very-high-performance 4D imaging radar could deter it from securing a spot in a more immediate automotive market, one where Tier 1s demand designs that rely on “good enough” solutions.

Engineering at the Edge of Knowledge

Featured, Truth & Consequences

By Girish Mhatre

What’s at stake?
The future of the driverless car: Are we attempting the impossible?

Intel, Chipmakers, and the Fear Card

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By Bolaji Ojo

Intel Corp. CEO Pat Gelsinger wants the EU to “take control of its destiny” by securing access to critical semiconductor supplies. He has similarly embarked upon the same mission for the United States. The effort is admirable but also misleading and fatuous. Intel is a public enterprise, not the right arm of the U.S. government nor a “physician” assigned to help heal the broken or compromised semiconductor supply chain.

U.S. Lawyers Perpetuate Regulation Myths at The Autonomous

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By Junko Yoshida

What’s at stake?
Germany’s recently passed autonomous-vehicle regulations earned the country bragging rights as the first in the world to bring legal certainty to Level 4 AVs, in which automated driving features do not require human intervention.

Lawyers working for the U.S. AV industry, and those looking to score political points, maintain that delayed regulations in America could hamstring automakers in the global AV race. What’s really at stake, however, is public safety. Will AV rules under development in the United States come with enough muscle to help AV manufacturers raise public confidence in the long-term safety of driverless vehicles?

Sneak Preview: Debunking Industry Narrative on AV Regulation

Featured, Truth & Consequences

By Phil Koopman

Too often, I’ve read documents or listened to panel sessions that rehash misleading or just plain incorrect industry talking points regarding autonomous vehicle standards and regulations. The current industry strategy seems to boil down to “Trust us, we know what’s best,” “Don’t stifle innovation,” and “Humans are bad drivers, so computers will be better.”

That Name is More than a Game

Featured, Truth & Consequences

By Ron Wilson

When Intel’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger unveiled the company’s process roadmap in July, part of the discussion was a wholesale renaming of Intel’s future process nodes. Superficially, this might have seemed an obvious marketing trick to mitigate painful comparisons against TSMC or Samsung. But beneath the surface, the renaming reflects both a decades-old struggle and a global financial reality.

The Romance of the Jalopy

Featured, Truth & Consequences

By David Benjamin

A nagging issue that I noticed last month at AutoSens in Brussels, Rob Stead’s visionary annual conference on sensor technology for the “cars of the future,” is the gap between technology people and car guys. Even more confusing—perhaps to the very people creating the systems and devices that might, finally, foster a utopia of self-driving cars, trucks, buses and “Look, Ma, no hands!” Harley-Davidsons—is that some of the AutoSens crowd occupy both sides of the gulf.