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Applied Materials’ Gary Dickerson: Sustainable Chip Production Evangelist
The chip supplier’s CEO has emerged as an evangelist for sustainable semiconductor manufacturing. We discuss how the booming industry must evolve to thrive on a warming planet.
Tension Builds As Auto Industry Awaits Reborn ADAS Specs
A deeper look at NHTSA’s new safety mandate: what it entails and how it will transform the auto industry’s supplier ecosystem.
Goodbye, Intel
How CEO Gelsinger’s asset-stripping of Intel leads to an end game.
Dig Deeper Podcast: SEMI’s Mousumi Bhat
As climate concerns mount, the semiconductor industry group’s sustainability chief discusses its roadmap to a greener chip manufacturing sector.
Dig Deeper Podcast: Chip Makers Map a Sustainable Future
The energy-intensive semiconductor industry aims to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. It must first transform aspirational goals into climate action.
It’s the Chiplet Derby … Without Enough Horses
Leading foundries’ constrained capacity and their insistence on a vertical business model could delay the arrival of chiplets in a form originally promised as a “Lego block-like,” mix-and-match design approach.
Welcome Back, Intel
Intel is fighting hard to reclaim semiconductor process technology leadership. It is making some headway but challenges abound.
A (Very) Brief History of Consciousness
If we understand the mechanism of subjective experience, we could choose, or not, to put it into AI.
Nobody Puts Beijing in a Corner
There is potential risk in pushing China into developing its own proprietary technologies/standards, which they might or might not share with the rest of the world.
AV Trucking: Bigger Robots, Bigger Problems?
The AV industry’s early flirtation with robo-trucks is over. What should be AV trucks’ next move?
AI: Artificial or Alchemical Intelligence?
The quest for the panacea even spawned a “science,” alchemy, composed of equal parts earnestness and fraudulence.
In RISC-V World, Who Has Arm’s Legs?
The lack of a strong ecosystem to support RISC-V cores could open the door to a new RISC-V IP player with the chops to exploit the playbook Arm wrote in its early days.
SandBox Moving AI Tools Beyond IC Design — to Manufacturing
A startup devises software tools that promise to help fabs accelerate process engineering.
I Became the News, No Thanks to Lufthansa
When airlines break a pledge, passengers suffer. It is worse when the airline chooses to be nonchalant.
Distribution M&A: East Goes West, at Last
WT Microelectronics wants to pay $3.8 billion for Canada’s Future Electronics, breathing new life into a dormant M&A market.
When an AV Has the Wheel, Who’s Driving?
Mercedes-Benz, Cruise, German traffic authorities and legal experts were all there. We asked: Whom do we hold accountable when highly automated vehicles make mistakes?
RISC-V Taking Flight on ‘Airbus’ Model
Since the formation of a new RISC-V venture was announced early August, no news has come forth. We asked NXP’s CTO Lars Reger for an update
The Semiconductor Downturn Has ‘Bottomed’
With sales showing signs of growing again, chipmakers get the opportunity to assess how actions taken during recent shortages will shape their immediate future
Numenta Steps into AI-Neuroscience Rift
AI developers using Nvidia GPUs rely on big data sets and brute-force computing. Believing this AI trajectory is unsustainable, neuroscientists are offering a recipe that puts “AI power hog” on a diet.
Can Laws Reverse Public Mistrust of AV?
It’s past time to clarify the liability issues of highly automated vehicles.
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