By Colin Barnden
What’s at stake:
Despite the investment of tens of billions of dollars, privately-owned passenger vehicles will not offer meaningful autonomous driving features anytime soon. Therefore, what is the next big thing for the automotive and tech industries if it isn’t “self-driving”?
What’s at stake:
IoT device vendors are mired in a proprietary-everything business mindset inherited from the embedded market. MicroEJ believes it can break the logjam, serving as a catalyst to accelerate both software and hardware development for various IoT devices.
Every company claiming leadership in its lane on the internet of things has an angle. It might be a collection of wireless technologies, super energy-efficient microcontrollers, small hardware accelerators effectively running edge AI, or a mess of sensors.
The angle for MicroEJ (pronounced “micro-edge”) is the company’s attention to embedded software.
Read More »MicroEJ Challenges IoT’s Forest of Silos
A U.S. foreign assistance program is training the next generation of technologist in the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia.
By Peter Clarke
What’s at stake:
An intriguing array of young companies fall into two general camps: those working at the human-machine interface and those providing the communications needed to handle the massive volumes of data that virtual reality will generate.
By Jon Peddie
What’s at stake?
Gamers, especially those in China, play on smartphones. Pixelworks’ postprocessor addresses that market by delivering higher frame rates, high pixel resolution and low latency while consuming very little power.
By Fred Ohwahwa
What’s at stake?
In a quiet corner in Ibadan South-West, Nigeria, a technological revolution is brewing as researchers explore new ways to use AI and robotics to improve the nation’s agricultural, logistics and health sectors.
By Fred Ohwahwa
Situated in the quiet, leafy terrain of Iyaganku in the government reserve area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, is RAIN, short for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Nigeria. There, largely unnoticed, a quiet revolution is unfolding thanks to the enterprise of a native son seeking to bring technology, jobs and hope to his homeland.
Read More »Nigeria Targets Robotics to Boost Hardware Skills
By Bolaji Ojo
Look in the mirror, semiconductor executives. The culprit behind the nightmarish shortages and supply insecurities jeopardizing the market expansion is staring right back at you. Do not blame China, Japan, the E.U., or the United States. Their governments have stepped in because the stakes are huge, but they didn’t cause this mess. The catalyst was you.
Read More »Chipmakers Created Mayhem; Now They Want a Bailout
