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VW’s Software Crisis isn’t VW’s Alone

Volkswagen’s latest announcement of a joint venture with California startup Rivian once again exposes VW’s widely known software problems. But this also reflects every incumbent automaker’s software dilemma.
Silicon Shield Gives Way to Silicon Alliance

Can Silicon Alliance Survive What Broke Taiwan’s Silicon Shield?

Chipmakers want to protect the global collaboration that drove the industry’s growth, but geopolitics threaten their silicon alliance concept much as it has punched holes in Taiwan’s silicon shield.
How Many OSs Make an SDV Run?

How Many OSs Make an SDV Run?

Green Hills discusses the layers of software inside SDVs, and how they enforce “freedom from interference” between software.
Can Ceva Ignite Yet-To-Explode TinyML Market?

Can Ceva Ignite Yet-To-Explode TinyML Market?

The IoT market is yet to see an “explosive growth” in TinyML. Is that due to inadequate hardware, ever-shifting software or not enough ML skills in the embedded community?
Industry Pivots from Self-Driving to Software-Defined

Industry Pivots from Self-Driving to Software-Defined

Technical challenges have put L3/L4 autonomous vehicles (AV) on the back burner. Automakers’ best hope in the meantime is SDVs — fundamental E/E architecture redesign — but the going is likely to be even tougher.
Sonatus discusses Software Foundation of SDV

Sonatus Discusses Software Foundation for SDVs

We ask Sonatus CEO: “What’s the ‘proper’ software foundation for SDVs?”
First, Software-Defined Sensors, Then SDVs

First, Software-Defined Sensors, Then SDVs

The driving force behind software-defined sensors is the federal safety agency’s Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) mandate. Can carmakers offer nighttime Pedestrian AEB without hardware changes?
FIGURE 1: Standard EV Charger Connects to an EV’s On-Board Charger

Microchip On-Board Charger Solution for EVs

The adoption of electric vehicles worldwide necessitates effective charging solutions. This white paper examines the fusion of Microchip’s dsPIC33 Digital Signal Controllers (DSC) with Silicon Carbide (SiC) technology, which offers a comprehensive system solution and systemic design approach to develop an on-board charger (OBC).
Nvidia Overshadows The Chip Indusry's Growth Malaise

Nvidia Overshadows The Chip Industry’s Growth Malaise

The chip industry is struggling for growth, but its challenges are hidden by the surge in demand for GPUs, CPUs, and memory semiconductors
SDV: OEMs' Dilemma

OEMs’ SDV Dilemma

NXP believes software-defined vehicles can help OEMs shorten the vehicle design cycle and go beyond upgrades.
Microsoft and Apple’s AI-Mighty Algorithm

Microsoft’s and Apple’s AI-Mighty Algorithm

Apple and Microsoft can tout opt-in features for “ChatGPT” or “Recall,” as though this is proof of their social responsibility. But is that enough to protect us from the tyranny of genAI?
AI Forces 'Interconnects' Outside the Box

AI Forces ‘Interconnects’ Outside the Box

Synopsys says PCIe 7.0 will further compel data center designers to go for the disaggregation of heterogeneous resources.
Microsoft's CoPilot+ puts Intel on a knife-edge

Microsoft’s CoPilot+ Puts Intel on a Knife-Edge

Intel is in a fight for survival everywhere, including in PC processors, its traditionally strongest market. With CoPilot+, Microsoft, one of its oldest alliance partners, is embracing Arm, adding to the pressure on the microprocessor giant. Which way forward, Microsoft?
Phil Koopman: Two Sides of the SDV Coin

Phil Koopman: Two Sides of the SDV Coin

Phil Koopman, professor at Carnegie Mellon Univ., weighs in on the SDV by asking his signature question: #didyouthinkofthat?

ST & Wolfspeed: A Tale of Two SiC Suppliers

The SiC market is moving fast – with changes among key players and a shift in market focus from materials to devices – altering the business prospects of two SiC pioneers.  
AI Sends AMD and Lisa Su Back to the Drawing Board

AI Sends AMD and Lisa Su Back to the Drawing Board

AI has pulled AMD into a ferocious battle for relevance and market share. Can CEO Lisa Su perform her magic again?
The ‘Ideal’ EV: Cheaper with Less SiC?

The ‘Ideal’ EV: Cheaper with Less SiC?

Ideal Power has devised a silicon-based bi-direction power device.  Will automakers already committed to Silicon Carbide listen?

In SDVs, IBM Has Honda’s Back

Data centers pioneered software-defined architecture. Now, Honda hopes to build its Software-Defined Vehicle roadmap by piggybacking on IBM’s data-center software expertise.
Intel Auto: SDV Is a Mindset

Intel Auto’s Jack Weast Woos China

Episode 2 of our SDV podcast series answers two most often asked questions: 1) What’s going on in China? and 2) What’s Intel doing in automotive?
It’s a Multimodal World, After All

It’s a Multimodal World, After All

LLaVA is a fusion of LLM like GPT-4, and vision encoders like CLIP. What does it do, and can it solve today’s AI problems?
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