India has a recurring dream of a volume semiconductor manufacturer, but they have been unable to fulfil that dream. What or who is to blame? Is it the lack of basic utility infrastructure? Is it the politicians? Or is it the lack of domestic industries that consume semiconductors?
We asked Mike Feibus if those who oppose the Nvidia/Arm merger have a Plan B up their sleeve.
Guest: Phil Koopman, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University We asked Phil: How do you prove safety for computer-based vehicles that depend on software? Phil responds: Testing doesn’t make you safe, it never has, and it never will. Not for software…The way you get safe is not by testing. You get there with safety engineering, doing the hazard analysis, making sure you mitigate hazards. [In short] testing doesn’t prove you safe. The testing proves that all the work [you’ve done] for safety didn’t let anything slip through. Listen to Podcast… Acronyms used during this episode:· DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles CPUC: California Public Utility Commission AAMVA: The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators DoT: Department of Transportation· PennDoT: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation MISRA: Motor Industry Software Reliability Association ANPRM: Advance… Read More »Podcast: Testing Does Not Equal Safety
Guest: Colin Barnden, principal analyst at Semicast Research
Photo: Arijit Raychowdhury, EE prof. at Georgia Tech (left), and Bolaji Ojo (center) and Junko Yoshida ( right)
By Junko Yoshida and Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake?
Does a premier U.S. engineering school like Georgia Tech need a TSMC chip fab in Arizona?
Absolutely. Not for strengthening the physical supply chain but for creating an “intellectual supply chain,” says Arijit Raychowdhury, a Georgia Tech EE professor.
Decades into the practice of going fab-lite or fabless, the U.S. semiconductor industry has lost its mojo. No longer can the industry effectively connect advanced chip architecture and production capabilities with academia, labs, and IP in its own country. At stake — more than national pride — is the future of the engineering workforce.
Read More »TSMC Adds ‘Intellectual Supply Chain’ With U.S. Fab
