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Can Machine Drivers Guess Right About Us Human Drivers?

Can Machine Drivers Guess Right About Us Human Drivers?

By Junko Yoshida What’s at stake?For both human and machine drivers, perception is hard. Even harder is prediction. The driver must make reasonable assumptions — guesses — about what other vehicles or pedestrians will do next, in order to forge a safe path through traffic. The question becomes: How can machine drivers guess right, based… Read More »Can Machine Drivers Guess Right About Us Human Drivers?
Politicize the Semiconductor Supply Chain and We All Lose

Politicize the Semiconductor Supply Chain and We All Lose

Semiconductors and software will drive and power societal evolution and economic growth for the foreseeable future. Therefore, the domination of access to the semiconductor supply chain by any country or regional bloc should be anathema to everyone.
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Apple Car Hurry-Up Targets Apps & Service Developers

Guest: Colin Barnden, principal analyst at Semicast Research
Apple Car: Makers & Sensors

Apple Car: Makers & Sensors

Since launching Project Titan in 2014, Apple has focused on finding “the right suppliers to set up a supply chain,” said Yole Développement CEO Jean-Christophe Eloy. Who are the likely suppliers?
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This Week

‌‌Unlocking Apple Car’s Supply ChainApple Car: Makers & SensorsWhat About EV batteries?A Portrait of Apple Beyond the HardwareIt’s Rethink or Sink for PropheseeSmall Is Beautiful: How to Cut Big Tech Down to SizePodcast: Apple Car Hurry-Up Targets Apps & Service Developers Unlocking Apple Car’s Supply Chain By Junko Yoshida‌ ‌ What’s at stake? ‌‌Phil Magney,… Read More »This Week
Unlocking Apple Car’s Supply Chain

Unlocking Apple Car’s Supply Chain

Phil Magney, founder of VSI Labs, often says that Tesla is “a proxy of the future vehicle.” What, then, will Apple Car become? Will it be Tesla on steroids, a safer and more secure Tesla, or just a more transparent version of Tesla?
Small Is Beautiful: How to Cut Big Tech Down to Size

Small Is Beautiful: How to Cut Big Tech Down to Size

I once asked Andy Grove, then CEO of Intel, why his company shouldn’t face antitrust penalties for monopolistic practices.
A Portrait of Apple Beyond the Hardware

A Portrait of Apple Beyond the Hardware

The big bet is that Apple will find a way to grow opportunities exponentially in the automotive market by bringing all kinds of add-on commercial, communication, entertainment, and other activities into the box.
It’s Rethink or Sink for Prophesee

It’s Rethink or Sink for Prophesee

The art of growing a startup business lies in “finding a path” that’s timely, practical and scalable. Many sensor startups bet their future on automotive. Prophesee, based in Paris, was one such early gambler.
What About EV Batteries

What About EV Batteries?

Batteries are “by far the most expensive part of BEVs,” automotive industry analyst Egil Juliussen noted. “Supply chains are tricky.”
Reining In Tesla’s Driverless Carriage

Reining In Tesla’s Driverless Carriage

Is Tesla merely a Level-2 ADAS vehicle or a Level-4 highly automated car? Most consumers find the technical distinctions arcane. But for California DMV regulators, this is the pivotal issue.

Yole CEO: TSMC Builds a Leading-edge Fab in Europe? It’s ‘Nonsense’

Why is TSMC pursuing its geographical expansion plan now? Is this decision driven by politics or commerce? How big is the political element?
TSMC Shifts West, Dodging Geopolitical Headwinds

TSMC Shifts West, Dodging Geopolitical Headwinds

Rising economic nationalism is causing fissures in the global semiconductor supply chain. The rifts are threatening the IC market at a time of rapid growth, when it most needs to retain the collaborative and unified structure that has driven its expansion over several decades.

Chipmakers Created Mayhem; Now They Want a Bailout

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.
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TSMC Adds ‘Intellectual Supply Chain’ With U.S. Fab

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.

TSMC’s Geopolitical Balancing Act

Leaders of some of the world’s largest economies want TSMC to diversify its production locations. The only problem: They all think the Taiwanese semiconductor foundry should open shop in their own countries.
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Intel Foundry: A Spinoff is Necessary (and Inevitable)Can ADAS Aid Us on a Dark and Stormy Night?Will Aurora ‘Do the Right Thing’? Intel Foundry: A Spinoff is Necessary (and Inevitable) by Bolaji Ojo Intel Corp. and GlobalFoundries do not belong together. If there is any truth to the recent Wall Street Journal report that Intel… Read More »This Week
Will Aurora Do the Right Thing?

Will Aurora ‘Do the Right Thing’?

Debates over the safety of autonomous vehicles boil down to one simple question: Is a machine driver safer than a human being?
Intel Foundry: A Spinoff is Necessary (and Inevitable)

Intel Foundry: A Spinoff is Necessary (and Inevitable)

Intel Corp. and GlobalFoundries do not belong together. If there is any truth to the recent Wall Street Journal report that Intel is considering purchasing the contract chipmaker, the board of directors should snuff the life out of that bizarre idea.
Can ADAS Aid Us on a Dark and Stormy Night?

Can ADAS Aid Us on a Dark and Stormy Night?

It’s one thing to ridicule Elon Musk for realizing, belatedly, that real-world AI is easier preached than done. Last week, in a tweet, Musk wrote: “Generalized self-driving is a hard problem, as it requires solving a large part of real-world AI.
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Ted Tewksbury. CEO, Velodyne Lidar
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