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The Cabin Monitoring System (Image: Valeo)

Introducing the Immersive User Experience

Ahead lies a battle between the giants of the tech industry that will redefine the automotive digital cockpit and the in-cabin experience.
Luca Verre, Prophesee CEO

Prophesee’s Big Three: Sony, Qualcomm and Smartphones

Finally, event-based image sensors leveraging neuromorphic engineering principles come to smartphones.
Silicon Chip Design and Verification

Is That an AI in My Chip Design?

Given the enormous investment and risk going into chip design in the semiconductor industry, we need to ask just how advances in AI will affect electronic design automation (EDA) — the engine that makes chip design possible.
Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

Gauging ‘Reasonable Risk’ in ChatGPT

Does Missy Cummings want ChatGPT to write code? “No,” she says, “I don’t.”

ChatGPT & AI: Stop Panicking and Look at the Potentials

Fears about ChatGPT and AI are understandable but overblown. The economic opportunities are huge and they will outweigh the risks.
Pete Buttigieg

Open Letter to Pete Buttigieg

USDOT’s road safety strategy is focused on replacing humans as drivers, with no coherent plan in place to save lives by making human drivers safer.
ChatGPT phishing and vishing

ChatGPT is Turbocharging Fraudsters

Among the unintended consequences of OpenAI’s chatbot is a powerful new tool for scamming humans.
The Last of Us (HBO Max)

ChatGPT Will Eat Our Brains

The genie is out of the bottle; nothing will be the same again.
Chatbot talking

Pay Attention, the Chatbots Are Talking

One of the things that differentiates ChatGPT from more narrowly defined functional chatbots is that it responds in a way that makes it seem human and friendly.
Intel Foundry Services

As Foundry Use Surges, IDM Renaissance Becomes Critical

The semiconductor market is becoming dangerously dependent upon foundries. IDMs can help rebalance the supply chain.
GlobalFoundries in Malta, New York

Can GM & GlobalFoundries Fix Auto Supply Chain Chaos?

GlobalFoundries has played the “domestic chip manufacturing” card and “better visibility claim” over the supply chain, to establish a new direct source model. And GM bought it.
Missy Cummings

Podcast: Missy Cummings Is No Debbie Downer

Guest: Professor in the George Mason University Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science departments
Mercedes-Benz Level 3 Drive Pilot Certified in Nevada

Buyer Beware: Weaponized SAE Levels Are Here

SAE levels open the door for carmakers and lobbyists to redefine disparate versions of “autonomy.”
Amnon Shashua CES 2023 keynote

Eyes on Mobileye’s Eyes-off Driving Claims

Mobileye’s CEO introduced eyes-off driving across a full range of operational design domains. His claim: “You can go to sleep. You can do whatever you like.”
Traveling at night in Cruise

AV Companies Got Real Data in San Francisco. NHTSA Wants It. 

The Federal safety agency sent a letter to GM. If GM responds, we might find out everything we wanted to know about Cruise.
Foxconn MIH Open EV platform

Ex-CTO of Foxconn’s EV Biz Levels Charges, Forced to Quit

The personnel turmoil could spell trouble for Foxconn’s automotive business.
Who is driving a self-driving car?

If Nobody’s Driving a Self-Driving Car, Who Do You Sue?

Expect sparks to fly when experts discuss who should be named as the driver of autonomous vehiles in Washington State. A public hearing on the state AV bill is scheduled at 4:00PM PT Tuesday this week.
siloes

MicroEJ Challenges IoT’s Forest of Silos

MicroEJ aims to turn conventional embedded systems — traditionally siloed and unconnected — into more agile, software-defined IoT devices.

Girding for War, Taiwan Must Also Invest In Its Economic Future

A survival strategy includes nurturing a new generation of leaders focused on more than defying China’s intentions to subjugate the island.
Taiwan Semiconductor Pioneers

Taiwan’s Illustrious But Aging Semiconductor Pioneers

Who’s who in Taiwan’s booming semiconductor industry–and who’s next.