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Truth About Edge AI in MCUs: Is It Worth It?

NXP’s approach seeks to address the mismatch between long-lived embedded chips and evolving AI applications.
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What Caught Our Eye This Week

NHTSA’s crash data, Canada’s new cyber attack disclosure law, MCU rankings
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Ian Drew: On IoT and Life After Arm

Writing his own obituary has helped him clarify the goals that he had yet to fulfill. Arm’s former CMO discusses why he started Foundries.io.
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Subsidies Are No Panacea for Fixing the Semiconductor Supply Chain

A growing chorus calls for a coordinated Western strategy for building resilient technology supply chains. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Wally Rhines Places All His Chips on a Crypto Startup

The electronics industry veteran is betting fully homomorphic encryption is ready for prime time.
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Startup’s Automotive Radar Sees People in the Dark

Uhnder looks to improve safety of ADAS systems with a one-chip digital radar device.
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Rubber Meets Road for Tire Safety Startup

Tactile Mobility seeks to pump up tire safety monitoring using existing auto sensor networks.
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What Caught Our Eye This Week

TSMC fab woes, Fraunhofer’s photovoltaic advance, EU charging port standard
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Pixel Magic From Pixelworks

The X7 mobile visual processor does for smartphone gaming what Pixelworks previously did for big-screen video processing.
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Fewer Planes, More Trains and Electric Automobiles

U.S. demand for EVs is growing, and the nation’s first high-speed passenger rail service is within reach.
The El-Ouazzane Leap: Intel to STMicroelectronics

The El-Ouazzane Leap: Intel to STMicroelectronics

Five months into the job, ST’s new chief of the microcontrollers and digital ICs group talks about what has surprised him the most.
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Will Arm Risk RISC-V?

Andes Technology fully embraced the open-source ISA as part of its IPO strategy. Arm now faces the same choice.
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What Caught Our Eye This Week

Tesla’s door lock problem, Intel meets Samsung, Gravity Batteries
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Renesas Looks to Resurrect Chip Production in Japan

Shuttered fab will reopen to manufacture power electronics devices on 300mm wafers.
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Podcast: Why Buy a Stake in Arm?

Qualcomm’s CEO wants to keep Arm neutral. Can he get buy-in from other chip makers?
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EU Chips Act: What to Chase, What to Ignore?

A completely independent European semiconductor industry that can guarantee supply security is a pipe dream. No one country or region can disengage from the ecosystem.

Chips Act: Europe’s Ambitious R&D Agenda

Continent’s premier research organizations will jointly oversee four pilot lines as part of the EU’s semiconductor initiative.
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What’s FD-SOI, and Why Does Europe Want a New One?

The EU is betting big on the technology’s ability to meld low-power or RF circuitry with advanced digital chips.
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The EU Has a Chip Plan. Can it Execute?

Yole analyst Jean-Christophe Eloy offers an inside look at Europe’s semiconductor strategy.
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Startup Aims to Build the First ‘Unhackable’ Encryption System

Cornami promises homomorphic solution based on a chip and software within two years.