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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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Born-Again NHTSA Forces Auto Industry Choices

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) order this week requiring carmakers and tech companies to submit crash reports involving vehicles equipped with highly automated features — including both Automated Driving Systems (ADS)and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

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