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Cruise’s Survival Hangs in The Balance
Cruise should reassess, improve safety, transparency and trust in the system. But what if there’s not enough money to pay for all those good deeds?
G.M. in S.F.: Cruise in for a Bruisin’
Uber Killed a pedestrian in 2018. Cruise, this month, mauled a woman hit by another vehicle and dragged her for 20ft. How’s that for AV progress?
Nvidia-Arm: Where is this Relationship Headed?
Nvidia has a 20-year Arm license and it is being used in ways that will be disruptive to the PC market and in other ways yet to be revealed.
Olofsson’s Dream: A Plug & Play Chiplet
‘Lego block’ is the favored metaphor in chiplet discussions. Zero ASIC claims that it’s the first in the industry to reach ‘Lego-Land.’
Can TSMC Meet Apple’s 2030 Net-Zero Pledge?
This is a story about Tim Cook, Mother Nature and the TSMC Dragon. To build a sustainable future, something must give.
Prophesee Emboldens Its Mass Consumer Outreach
Prophesee is searching for customers for its neuromorphic vision systems. Success could result in it becoming a $1 billion enterprise. Will that day come soon?
Pet Robots vs Robotaxis
The basic philosophy of pet robots helps to explain the potential benefits of a future partnership model between a human and a machine.
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.
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