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What Decades of Roboshuttle Misfires Teach Us
Will robotaxis fare better than roboshuttles? We think the assumption is naïve.
Silicon Catalyst Webinar: What to Know about Investing in Semiconductor Startups
The Ojo-Yoshida Report delivers a keynote at Silicon Catalyst’s webinar.
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Straight From the Heart: Startup Celtro Eyes Self-Powered PacemakersWho Does the Plumbing for IoT?Imaging Radar Gets a Second Look for AVs Straight From the Heart: Startup Celtro Eyes Self-Powered Pacemakers By Adele HarsGerman company’s implantable chip to run on energy harvested from cardiac cells. What’s at stake?The pacemaker envisioned by Celtro is both leadless and… Read More »This Week
Imaging Radar Gets a Second Look for AVs
As 3D/4D imaging and software-defined radar emerge, radar sensors are becoming much more useful, with higher resolution.
Straight From the Heart: Startup Celtro Eyes Self-Powered Pacemakers
German company’s implantable chip to run on energy harvested from cardiac cells.
Who Does the Plumbing for IoT?
Matter, the new IoT application layer spec, is coming to save the smart home, with Amazon, Google, Apple and Samsung joining the bandwagon. But really, who are going to do the plumbing for Matter?
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Prepare for Unknown Unknowns in This Year’s Chip MarketMobileye Consumer AV Push: Facts Behind the Math?The Inscrutability of Black IcePodcast: What’s the State of Phase-change Memory? Prepare for Unknown Unknowns in This Year’s Chip Market By Bolaji Ojo Analysts expect moderate growth in 2022, but forecasts are tough to pin down due to the market’s opacity… Read More »This Week
Podcast: What’s the State of Phase-change Memory?
By Peter Clarke I was prompted to record this by the news that Intel has begun the sell-offof its non-volatile memory and solid-state drive businesses to SK Hynix, ina $9 billion deal that includes a wafer fab in Dalian, China, and will takeuntil 2024 to complete. Listen to the podcast…
Mobileye Consumer AV Push: Facts Behind the Math?
Mobileye insists consumer and industrial AV development must proceed in tandem if both sectors are to succeed.
Prepare for Unknown Unknowns in This Year’s Chip Market
Analysts expect moderate growth in 2022, but forecasts are tough to pin down due to the market’s opacity and factors beyond the control of chipmakers and their customers.
The Inscrutability of Black Ice
No self-driving vehicle could ever be calibrated to sense a danger as sudden, invisible and terrifying as black ice at 70 miles an hour.
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Automotive Chip Drought Alters OEM/Supplier Balance of PowerInfineon: The Case for a More Aggressive StrategyIC Aging and Self-Driving CarTOPS Priorities Shift for ‘Datacenter on Wheels’DMS: The Experts’ View Automotive Chip Drought Alters OEM/Supplier Balance of Power By Junko Yoshida The automotive chip shortage has put semiconductor suppliers in the driver’s seat — at least for… Read More »This Week
Automotive Chip Drought Alters OEM/Supplier Balance of Power
The automotive chip shortage has put semiconductor suppliers in the driver’s seat — at least for now. But automakers are wising up. They are rethinking relationships with semiconductor suppliers, while redrawing their next-generation vehicle architectures.
Infineon: The Case for a More Aggressive Strategy
To keep Infineon a strong European brand for generations to come, the company must bulk up with strategic acquisitions. How to do so given a conservative corporate culture will be the main challenge facing its new CEO.
DMS: The Experts’ View
At CES 2022 this week, driver monitoring systems (DMS) are adding a wrinkle to the escalating ADAS/AV SoC race. Options of embedding DMS are many. The question is where and how DMS will land in a vehicle.
IC Aging and Self-Driving Car
Engineers are scrambling to ensure that autonomous vehicles will remain safe even as the chips used within them succumb to natural deterioration over time.
TOPS Priorities Shift for ‘Datacenter on Wheels’
In the ADAS/AV market, the race to a trillion operations per second (TOPS) continues to escalate. At CES 2022. Ambarella, Mobileye and NXP/Hailo shared their diverging approaches to the TOPS race.
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Intel/Mobileye: Not All Mergers Create EqualsIntel: Time to Break up the MothershipSilicon Labs’ CTO on IoT ‘Catalyst Moments’Podcast: Road to 5-Star DMS RatingThe Letting-Go Dilemma Intel/Mobileye: Not All Mergers Create Equals By Junko Yoshida What’s at stake?Intel acquired Mobileye in 2017 — nearly a year into the two companies’ joint AV development partnership with BMW… Read More »This Week
Silicon Labs’ CTO on IoT ‘Catalyst Moments’
Besides making IoT devices smarter, what’s still missing in this market? Silicon Labs’ CTO is categorically clear. “Making the technology easy to use. Full stop.”
Intel: Time to Break up the Mothership
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger may be planning a deeper restructuring of the company than the proposed IPO of its Mobileye unit implies.
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