Marketing Electronics is our newly introduced webcast and in the first episode, we feature Guy Forster, founder of UK-based TKO Marketing. Forster says semiconductors will be at the root of finding solutions to mankind’s major problems, but first design engineers must continue to make error-free decisions.
Warfare is always evolving and Ukraine’s recent drone strikes on Russia’s air bases far from the front lines provides an important lesson not only for military strategists but for tech execs, engineers, and investors, too.
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake:
The semiconductor industry is at a crossroads — propelled by AI, but strained by geopolitical tensions, and desperate for innovation. Enter Rapidus Design Solutions, the marketing unit of Rapidus Corp., a company defying expectations and trying to reshape and influence the high-performance chip manufacturing market and Japan’s role in it. Rapidus is Japan’s new foundry formed a few years ago to give the country a fighting chance in the world of advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
Rapidus Corp. isn’t just dipping its toes into semiconductor manufacturing. It is diving in headfirst, with the Japanese government playing lifeguard.
A state-of-the-art 2nm fab in Hokkaido, nearly completed after a mere three years, is setting the stage for Japan’s resurgence in chipmaking. Mass production is projected to begin in 2027, but the industry is already taking notice. Rapidus isn’t in full operation yet, and there are many challenges ahead for the company, including the possibility of it missing targets or failing to attract the customers it would need to crack open a spot in the global foundry business. Despite the obstacles, though, Rapidus is already making a name for itself in the market. Will the company sustain the positive take-off?
Read More »Rapidus Sparks Japan’s Semiconductor Comeback
TechSplicit presents a conversation on Software-Defined Vehicles featuring Timothy Edwards, co-founder and VP, Strategy, at Seeing Machines, and Colin Barnden, principal analyst at Semicast Research. They’ll be discussing 3D Sensing for In-Cabin Monitoring.
Edge AI was the primary focus of microcontroller vendors at the 2025 Embedded World Exhibition. We caught up with some industry executives for our annual Embedded Quest program, asking them about their take on Edge AI.
Is the US still the world’s preeminent destination for the best and brightest minds in science, engineering, and technology?
Given the escalating complexity of current AI (and other) chips, are we finally witnessing the emergence of “Design for Verification” as a critical engineering imperative for semiconductor companies?
Don’t look now but NXP has just given itself a leg up in the market for robotic devices and AI at the Edge by adding 1,100 critical software engineering expertise to its employee roster via its planned acquisition of TTTech Auto. Of course, there’s a software-defined vehicle play also.
Players in the electronics industry are busy boning up on optical computing.
An onslaught of new processors aimed at high performance computing is enabling photonics — always billed as a “next-gen” technology — to finally strut its stuff in the burgeoning AI market.
Photonic processors are no longer a curiosity. Some of them are emerging from the lab as commercial products integrated into PCIe periphery demonstrators.
Read More »Who, What, When and How of Photonic Processors
By Kolade Ojo
What’s at stake:
The big challenge for semiconductor companies racing to offer solutions for the deployment of AI at the edge is figuring out who will bear the responsibility for shaping the future of AI application devices. Should it be the companies developing the technology or the industries applying it? STMicroelectronics isn’t waiting for an answer, though. Rather, it is adding AI capabilities to existing technologies, including MEMS.
There is no doubt about the semiconductor industry’s prevailing focus today. It is artificial intelligence (AI), but not just the kind of AI products and expectations that have propelled Nvidia Corp. into the ranks of the world’s most valuable publicly-traded enterprises.
At the recently concluded Electronica 2024 Exhibition in Munich, AI was the most prominent topic and products. AI resounded throughout the Munich Messe halls as the rallying cry for innovation, with companies across the industry spectrum pushing promises to leverage advancements in the fast-growing market.
Read More »ST Charges its Edge AI Push with Biosensor MEMS
