Intel Prepares to Break Ground on Ohio Fab
The ground-breaking ceremony near Columbus includes an impressive guest list.
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California Bill Targets Tesla
One might say it’s about time to tie Tesla’s hands.
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California’s Missed Opportunity to Regulate Tesla
What’s at stake:
Safety on public roads grows more tenuous. Tesla’s fraud isn’t just promoting its vehicles as self-driving when they are not. More problematic is that Tesla builds shoddy SAE Level 4 cars equipped with beta software, leading customers to believe they can drive Teslas anywhere. California legislators missed the big picture, a critic argues.
A Reborn Intel Enters the RISC-V Ecosystem
What’s at stake:
For the world’s largest CPU vendor to become a genuine facilitator for the open source RISC-V community, Intel must demonstrate its intent and commitment. Is its Pathfinder initiative for RISC-V enough? Can Intel gain the trust from those in the RISC-V ecosystem? At stake is the future of Intel Foundry Services.
Proposed ‘Reverse CFIUS’ Would Curb China Investments
What’s at stake:
Backers of proposed bipartisan legislation to create a Committee on National Critical Capabilities have failed to win over Congress thus far. But the latest version of the “reverse CFIUS” bill stands a better chance of passage, with implications for U.S. tech concerns looking to invest in China.
Intel Seeks to Lessen Cash Squeeze With Brookfield Deal
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake?
Intel needs far more money than it can generate from operations or receive from governments to fund its massive fab construction program. A partnership with investor Brookfield may help ease the pains.
Untether AI Aims to Become Nvidia of AI Inference
What’s at stake?
Armed with its own unique at-memory compute architecture, Untether AI wants to lead the general-purpose AI inference accelerator market. Can the startup unseat leading CPU and GPU vendors that dominate the AI training sector and are extending their reach into AI inference? Is the knock-your-socks-off performance enough to pull that off?
Chiplets Are a Second Path to Higher Integration
By Ron Wilson
What’s at stake:
As the industry moves down the Moore’s Law path toward 2nm, increasing design and process costs and spiraling complexity threaten to limit the game to only two or three fabrication companies and only a few of their customers. But a reconsideration of an old idea—building a system out of multiple dies in a single package—could break through these strictures, reopening the industry to smaller customers and giving many organizations and many countries opportunities to participate.
What Caught Our Eye This Week
Massive Recall Forces Out Philips CEO van Houten
Philips announced CEO Frans van Houten will leave the company in October. Van Houten, at the company’s helm for almost 12 years, has transformed the Dutch giant from a sprawling consumer electronics, industrial and lighting company to a leading health technology vendor.
Succeeding Van Houten is Roy Jakobs, head of the company’s Connected Care units.
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