Prepare for Unknown Unknowns in This Year’s Chip Market
Mobileye Consumer AV Push: Facts Behind the Math?
The Inscrutability of Black Ice
Podcast: 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 and factors beyond the control of chipmakers and their customers.
What’s at stake
Positive momentum from 2021 will push the semiconductor market into year-over-year growth. But unforeseen developments from the Covid pandemic, among other factors, call the strength of that upturn into question.
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.
What’s at stake
The AV industry has generally come to accept that the highly automated vehicle market will start with robotaxis, scheduled for rollout one city at a time. Consumer-owned AVs without human drivers are believed to be years — some say decades — away. But Mobileye, whose parent company Intel plans to take it public later this year, is pushing an aggressive timetable for consumer AVs, warning the industry that consumer and industrial AV development must proceed in tandem if both sectors are to succeed. For now, OEMs are left with the daunting task of checking Mobileye’s math.
The Inscrutability of Black Ice
By David Benjamin
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.
“As someone who doesn’t drive, I am not sure how an AI would handle icy road conditions… Autonomous cars are not going to get angry, commit road rage-related crimes, or panic when suddenly confronted with black ice.” —Johnna Crider, CleanTechnica, Dec. 23, 2021
Like many other folks, I’ve faced the prospect of death a number of times. But in none of those circumstances was I ever palpably scared — until the whole horror was over with and I had a chance to think of how close I’d come to strolling into the sunset hand-in-hand with the Grim Reaper.
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-off
of its non-volatile memory and solid-state drive businesses to SK Hynix, in
a $9 billion deal that includes a wafer fab in Dalian, China, and will take
until 2024 to complete.
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