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Chiplets: If It Happens in China, Will It Stay in China?
Going beyond trade barriers, what’s driving China to chiplets is financial motivation. They are looking for the reuse of low-cost, low-risk chiplet IP.

Memo to Auto Chipmakers: AVs’ Failure is Your Failure, Too
Autonomous vehicles are on the path to failure. They may also doom the interests of their suppliers.

Cruise Accident Response Focuses on How, Not Why
The AV company’s critics assert its remote controllers in Arizona are unable to ensure safe operations.

Cruise Crash Walkthrough Analysis
Phil Koopman’s stellar one-hour walkthrough of what happened at the Cruise Robotaxi crash on Oct. 2, 2023.

Can AVs ‘Understand’? The Case of the Vanishing Pedestrian
Please, let’s stop calling Autonomous Vehicles “smart.” A new AV might be equipped with superior sensors and more powerful processors, but none of these can make its perception and predictions any more accurate, unless programmed to do so.

Chiplet Mission: Navigate Interconnect Complexity
Blue Cheetah pushes die-to-die interconnect technology that, it claims, is both ‘standards-based’ and ‘customizable.’

Intel Tackles an Old Nemesis with Little Room for Errors
Intel navigates a complex world where foundry alliances can help it solve the twin problems of falling sales and low capacity utilization. Can it pull this off?

Interconnecting Chiplets: A Many-Layered Challenge
The Ojo-Yoshida Report podcast series Dig Deeper—Chiplets interviews Tony Mastroianni of Siemens.

CEO Panush Writes Ceva’s Next Growth Chapter
Ceva’s new CEO Amir Panush has bold ambitions to expand via M&A. If so, whom should he target?

Waveguide Casts CMOS Image Sensors in a New Light
Imec has retained the image plane of conventional CMOS image sensors but replaced the optically inefficient filtering with an optical waveguide layer.

Chiplets: What Lies Below?
Being able to interconnect many chiplets at performance and power levels closer to those of on-die interconnect could allow design of genuinely enormous systems.

If Nvidia Is AI Hardware’s Goliath, Where’s David?
How can anyone break into a current AI semiconductor market in which TSMC dominates the foundry business and Nvidia has locked up the AI hardware and software used by developers?

Vegas Falcons Patrol the Sphere
Using ‘nature’ to solve tech problems might be a lesson for the tech industry.

TSMC: Name Change Anyone?
TSMC is changing to accommodate customers’ interests and avoid geopolitical problems but a rebranding may be in its future also.

Automotive: Industry Drowning in Tech
Many automotive OEMs are completely unsuited to harnessing the flood of technological innovation that their industry is now drowning in.

Why Is Valeo Clinging to Lidar?
With its lidars designed into Level 3 vehicles, Valeo hopes to learn how the car will handle automation, and how that affects cabin redesigns in 10 years.

The Moral Bankruptcy of the Tech Titans
Observed in Davos: How to bamboozle with BS

Synopsys-Ansys to Bridge Digital, Physical Worlds
How will the union of the two companies address the challenges emerging at the digital/physical nexus?

Chiplet: Let Integration Race Begin
DreamBig Semiconductor came to CES with its own ‘Open Chiplet Platform.’

Is Localized Chip Production Doomed to Fail?
Governments are pushing local production hubs on receptive chipmakers but the business dynamics may not support such a system.
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