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ST Joins SiC Vertical Integration Race
Every SiC device supplier wants to control everything from SiC substrate to device manufacturing. Who’s doing what and where?
Attack of the Feature Creep
Digital devices offer choices so numerous that the user is helpless to choose.
Moving Beyond ‘Brittle’ AI
Current machine learning models are unsuited for risky applications like autonomous driving.
Samsung Won’t Provide SoftBank With Arm Closure
Softbank will only prolong its Arm problem if Samsung Electronics gets involved.
AI Hardware Startups Ready for Pruning
Our survey reveals a crowded sector more ripe for M&As than IPOs.
Who’s Who in AI Hardware Startups
About 90 startups are focused on various segments of the AI hardware market.
U.S. Taps Semiconductor Execs to Map R&D
Ex-Applied Materials, Analog Devices officials will head an advisory panel for disbursing CHIPS Act research funding.
Qualcomm’s Automotive Gambit: Doubling Down on Smartphones
Many automotive experts doubted Qualcomm’s ability to make inroads into the automotive market. Not anymore. How did Qualcomm gain respect?
Inside In-Memory Computing, and Why It’s Back
Accelerator chips tailored for deep learning place scads of computing elements near, or in, memory to parallelize the massive computational load.
Push Comes to Shove in China Tech Competition
China’s huge market potential once blinded foreign governments and investors to the dangers inherent in its Communist system. No longer.
Can AI in AVs Go Beyond ‘Perception’?
Infineon believes there is a way to apply machine-learning algorithms to reduce the cost and power consumption of highly automated vehicles.
Measuring the Metaverse Against Reality
Our upcoming webinar will sort the hype from the reality of leveraging virtual worlds.
U.S. Semiconductor Technocracy Falls Into Place
A National Semiconductor Research Center could be operational by the end of 2023. Will it accelerate chip innovation?
Electricity is the New Oil
Buoyed by the success of electric vehicles, other transportation sectors including planes, boats and trains are following their own paths toward petroleum replacements in an attempt to lower emissions.
Will Your Next Car Replace You, or Just Improve Your Driving?
Highly automated vehicles aren’t the only path to safety. Vehicles that understand human drivers and manage their behavior suggest a better, faster path to prevent accidents.
U.S. Puts China in a Semiconductor Chokehold
Concluding that China is both a security threat and an unfair economic player, the U.S. will block Beijing’s access to chip technology.
Investment Opportunities Abound in Africa’s Tech Communities
A new generation of ‘Afropreneurs’ is turning the continent into ‘the next digital growth frontier.’
Autonomy Race: Nvidia Ups Ante With 2,000 TOPS ‘Superchip’
In unveiling Thor, the company’s new automotive SoC, Nvidia touts “greater computing performance in the vehicle equals greater safety.” Is that a valid argument?
Silicon Labs Targets a ‘Mature’ IoT Market
Betting the farm on the internet of things, the Austin chipmaker seeks to separate itself from other IoT entrants.
Drive ’Til You Can’t, Then AV Aids Kick In
The utopian vision of drivers relaxing while their cars drive themselves is a mirage. Instead of making it their mission to replace human drivers, automated-vehicle technologies should concentrate on helping those drivers cope with emergencies.
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