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Silicon Labs’ CTO on IoT ‘Catalyst Moments’

By Junko Yoshida

What’s at stake?
When it comes to easy-to-use IoT, we are still not there. The stakes are high for a pure-play IoT company like Silicon Labs. Silicon Labs’ CTO Daniel Cooley explains why Matter, an upcoming smart-home interoperability protocol backstopped by Apple, Google and others, matters in the consumer IoT space. He also pinpoints the breakthrough events in IoT’s journey thus far.

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It’s Rethink or Sink for Prophesee

It’s Rethink or Sink for Prophesee

By Junko Yoshida

What’s at stake:
The art of growing a startup business lies in “finding a path” that’s timely, practical and scalable. Many sensor startups, mesmerized by AV hype, bet their future on automotive. Prophesee, based in Paris, was one such early gambler. The CEO now sees that it’s time to pivot. But which way? What are his options?

Even for seasoned Tier Ones and OEMs, complying with automotive safety regulations is no cakewalk. For a tech startup pursuing the ADAS/autonomous vehicle market, conformance with and validation to the slate of applicable safety regulations could pose insurmountable hurdles.

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Yole CEO: TSMC Builds a Leading-edge Fab in Europe? It’s ‘Nonsense’

What’s at stake? China’s Communist Party clearly isn’t giving up on its long-term goal to absorb Taiwan into China. When, if ever, Beijing might pull the trigger is anybody’s guess. Taiwanese companies tend to downplay the possibility, but those reassurances haven’t assuaged the world’s fear that it might happen. In no small part, that’s because Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s success in chip production has made Taiwan economically and politically critical to the whole world.    

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