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RISC-V’s CTO on the Art of Herding Cats
Managing a fast-growing open-source community is not for the fainthearted, but Mark Himelstein keeps the new specs coming.
China’s Achilles’ Heel
The nation’s intractable disunity may offer an opening for Western industrialists.
The Fabless Semiconductor Model is Flawed
Here is how to fix it.
Truth About Edge AI in MCUs: Is It Worth It?
NXP’s approach seeks to address the mismatch between long-lived embedded chips and evolving AI applications.
What Caught Our Eye This Week
NHTSA’s crash data, Canada’s new cyber attack disclosure law, MCU rankings
Ian Drew: On IoT and Life After Arm
Writing his own obituary has helped him clarify the goals that he had yet to fulfill. Arm’s former CMO discusses why he started Foundries.io.
Subsidies Are No Panacea for Fixing the Semiconductor Supply Chain
A growing chorus calls for a coordinated Western strategy for building resilient technology supply chains. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
Wally Rhines Places All His Chips on a Crypto Startup
The electronics industry veteran is betting fully homomorphic encryption is ready for prime time.
Startup’s Automotive Radar Sees People in the Dark
Uhnder looks to improve safety of ADAS systems with a one-chip digital radar device.
Rubber Meets Road for Tire Safety Startup
Tactile Mobility seeks to pump up tire safety monitoring using existing auto sensor networks.
What Caught Our Eye This Week
TSMC fab woes, Fraunhofer’s photovoltaic advance, EU charging port standard
Pixel Magic From Pixelworks
The X7 mobile visual processor does for smartphone gaming what Pixelworks previously did for big-screen video processing.
Fewer Planes, More Trains and Electric Automobiles
U.S. demand for EVs is growing, and the nation’s first high-speed passenger rail service is within reach.
The El-Ouazzane Leap: Intel to STMicroelectronics
Five months into the job, ST’s new chief of the microcontrollers and digital ICs group talks about what has surprised him the most.
Will Arm Risk RISC-V?
Andes Technology fully embraced the open-source ISA as part of its IPO strategy. Arm now faces the same choice.
What Caught Our Eye This Week
Tesla’s door lock problem, Intel meets Samsung, Gravity Batteries
Renesas Looks to Resurrect Chip Production in Japan
Shuttered fab will reopen to manufacture power electronics devices on 300mm wafers.
Podcast: Why Buy a Stake in Arm?
Qualcomm’s CEO wants to keep Arm neutral. Can he get buy-in from other chip makers?
EU Chips Act: What to Chase, What to Ignore?
A completely independent European semiconductor industry that can guarantee supply security is a pipe dream. No one country or region can disengage from the ecosystem.
Chips Act: Europe’s Ambitious R&D Agenda
Continent’s premier research organizations will jointly oversee four pilot lines as part of the EU’s semiconductor initiative.
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