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G.M. in S.F.: Cruise in for a Bruisin’
Uber Killed a pedestrian in 2018. Cruise, this month, mauled a woman hit by another vehicle and dragged her for 20ft. How’s that for AV progress?
Nvidia-Arm: Where is this Relationship Headed?
Nvidia has a 20-year Arm license and it is being used in ways that will be disruptive to the PC market and in other ways yet to be revealed.
Olofsson’s Dream: A Plug & Play Chiplet
‘Lego block’ is the favored metaphor in chiplet discussions. Zero ASIC claims that it’s the first in the industry to reach ‘Lego-Land.’
Can TSMC Meet Apple’s 2030 Net-Zero Pledge?
This is a story about Tim Cook, Mother Nature and the TSMC Dragon. To build a sustainable future, something must give.
Prophesee Emboldens Its Mass Consumer Outreach
Prophesee is searching for customers for its neuromorphic vision systems. Success could result in it becoming a $1 billion enterprise. Will that day come soon?
Pet Robots vs Robotaxis
The basic philosophy of pet robots helps to explain the potential benefits of a future partnership model between a human and a machine.
Applied Materials’ Gary Dickerson: Sustainable Chip Production Evangelist
The chip supplier’s CEO has emerged as an evangelist for sustainable semiconductor manufacturing. We discuss how the booming industry must evolve to thrive on a warming planet.
Tension Builds As Auto Industry Awaits Reborn ADAS Specs
A deeper look at NHTSA’s new safety mandate: what it entails and how it will transform the auto industry’s supplier ecosystem.
Goodbye, Intel
How CEO Gelsinger’s asset-stripping of Intel leads to an end game.
Dig Deeper Podcast: SEMI’s Mousumi Bhat
As climate concerns mount, the semiconductor industry group’s sustainability chief discusses its roadmap to a greener chip manufacturing sector.
Dig Deeper Podcast: Chip Makers Map a Sustainable Future
The energy-intensive semiconductor industry aims to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. It must first transform aspirational goals into climate action.
It’s the Chiplet Derby … Without Enough Horses
Leading foundries’ constrained capacity and their insistence on a vertical business model could delay the arrival of chiplets in a form originally promised as a “Lego block-like,” mix-and-match design approach.
Welcome Back, Intel
Intel is fighting hard to reclaim semiconductor process technology leadership. It is making some headway but challenges abound.
A (Very) Brief History of Consciousness
If we understand the mechanism of subjective experience, we could choose, or not, to put it into AI.
Nobody Puts Beijing in a Corner
There is potential risk in pushing China into developing its own proprietary technologies/standards, which they might or might not share with the rest of the world.
AV Trucking: Bigger Robots, Bigger Problems?
The AV industry’s early flirtation with robo-trucks is over. What should be AV trucks’ next move?
AI: Artificial or Alchemical Intelligence?
The quest for the panacea even spawned a “science,” alchemy, composed of equal parts earnestness and fraudulence.
In RISC-V World, Who Has Arm’s Legs?
The lack of a strong ecosystem to support RISC-V cores could open the door to a new RISC-V IP player with the chops to exploit the playbook Arm wrote in its early days.
SandBox Moving AI Tools Beyond IC Design — to Manufacturing
A startup devises software tools that promise to help fabs accelerate process engineering.
I Became the News, No Thanks to Lufthansa
When airlines break a pledge, passengers suffer. It is worse when the airline chooses to be nonchalant.
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