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JIC Is a Poor Replacement for JITOpen Letter to Zuck: Prove to Us That ‘Ethics in Tech’ Is Not an OxymoronEV Battery Cost/Performance Race: Place Your BetsVision Plus Radar: Where Should Fusion Take Place? JIC Is a Poor Replacement for JIT By Bolaji Ojo The electronics industry is at it again. Notorious for offering bewildering… Read More »This Week
Vision Plus Radar: Where Should Fusion Take Place?
The recent Ambarella-Oculii deal raises questions about where in the vehicle sensor fusion should take place and who ultimately “owns” the sensor fusion stack.
What’s the Big Deal with EUV?
While turning EUV into a viable production technology, ASML and its many partners created one of the most complex and fragile supply chains in history, leaving far too much at stake.
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What’s the Big Deal with EUV? ASML 2025: Beautiful with a Sprinkling of Risks Sci-Fi Implications of the Metaverse When Teslas Crash, ‘Uh-Oh’ Is Not Enough What’s the Big Deal with EUV? By Ron Wilson What’s at stake?Extreme ultraviolet lithography has become critical to the capacity and resilience of the supply chain for advanced… Read More »This Week
Sci-Fi Implications of the Metaverse
In Snow Crash, a 1992 novel by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson, his “Metaverse” is a bleak dystopia in which virtual reality both substitutes for real life and mimics it.
ASML 2025: Beautiful with a Sprinkling of Risks
ASML has a lock on the semiconductor manufacturing equipment market, with a monopoly in the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) lithography segment and more than a 50% market share in all other sectors.
When Teslas Crash, ‘Uh-Oh’ Is Not Enough
Today’s regulatory structure has given Tesla license to peddle the illusion of self-driving and tout its beta software experiments on public roads as a breakthrough in automotive technology.
Podcast: Nvidia-Arm Deal Blatantly Infringes Antitrust Law
We asked Mike Feibus if those who oppose the Nvidia/Arm merger have a Plan B up their sleeve.
Nvidia and Arm: Perils of Tech Platform Acquisitions
If consummated, Nvidia’s deal to buy Arm will instantly give one competitor great power over a critical technology platform. Do regulators have the tools to recognize the danger?
A New Semiconductor World Imagined
The challenge posed by Nvidia – via its planned acquisition of Arm – to Intel’s x86 architecture is real and potentially unstoppable, and should not be casually dismissed.
Rest in Peace: Arm, 1990 – 2022
Draft of a funereal eulogy to be read in the event of Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm Ltd.
Like All Deals in China, Expect Strings Attached to Nvidia/Arm
The Nvidia-Arm deal idles at the intersection of U.S. politics, Jensen Huang’s promises and China’s long ambition to become the world’s tech industry leader.
With HD Radar, Arbe Robotics Pits Price vs. Pride
Arbe Robotics, a 2015 Israeli startup that went public this month through a SPAC, seemed to have a lot going for it in recent years. Today, it might be at a crossroads.
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Engineering at the Edge of KnowledgeWith HD Radar, Arbe Robotics Pits Price vs. PrideIntel, Chipmakers, and the Fear Card Engineering at the Edge of Knowledge By Girish Mhatre What’s at stake?The future of the driverless car: Are we attempting the impossible? Read more… With HD Radar, Arbe Robotics Pits Price vs. Pride By Junko Yoshida… Read More »This Week
Engineering at the Edge of Knowledge
The future of the driverless car: Are we attempting the impossible?
Intel, Chipmakers, and the Fear Card
By Bolaji Ojo Intel Corp. CEO Pat Gelsinger wants the EU to “take control of its destiny” by securing access to critical semiconductor supplies. He has similarly embarked upon the same mission for the United States. The effort is admirable but also misleading and fatuous. Intel is a public enterprise, not the right arm of… Read More »Intel, Chipmakers, and the Fear Card
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U.S. Lawyers Perpetuate Regulation Myths at The AutonomousSneak Preview: Debunking Industry Narrative on AV RegulationThat Name is More than a GamePodcast: Testing Does Not Equal Safety U.S. Lawyers Perpetuate Regulation Myths at The Autonomous By Junko Yoshida What’s at stake?Germany’s recently passed autonomous-vehicle regulations earned the country bragging rights as the first in the world… Read More »This Week
Podcast: Testing Does Not Equal Safety
Guest: Phil Koopman, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University We asked Phil: How do you prove safety for computer-based vehicles that depend on software? Phil responds: Testing doesn’t make you safe, it never has, and it never will. Not for software…The way you get safe is not by testing. You get there with safety engineering,… Read More »Podcast: Testing Does Not Equal Safety
U.S. Lawyers Perpetuate Regulation Myths at The Autonomous
In the realm of AV safety and regulation, a stark contrast exists between the approaches advocated in North America and Europe. The disparity was clear in two events that successively took place recently.
Sneak Preview: Debunking Industry Narrative on AV Regulation
The current autonomous vehicle industry strategy seems to boil down to “Trust us, we know what’s best,” “Don’t stifle innovation,” and “Humans are bad drivers, so computers will be better.”
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