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Grinn-MediaTek Alliance Expands Embedded AI Reach in Europe

Grinn-MediaTek Alliance Expands Embedded AI Reach in Europe

By Bolaji Ojo

In an ambitious move that underscores fierce competition in Europe’s embedded systems market, technology innovator Grinn Sp. z o.o. today announced a strategic partnership with global chipset leader MediaTek. The agreement gives Grinn exclusive access to MediaTek’s Genio processor family, enabling it to deliver some of the smallest production-ready systems-on-module (SOMs) for demanding AI and IoT applications.

Industry analysts see the Grinn-MediaTek alliance as a defining moment for Europe’s rapidly evolving embedded hardware sector, which is forecast to grow at a robust 7.4 percent annually between 2025 and 2030.

Access to MediaTek’s technology roadmap and privileged support place Grinn at the forefront among European SOM vendors in addressing complex edge computing and AI demands — particularly as hardware segments continue outpacing broader market averages.

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ST Expands Next-Generation Chip Packaging in France

ST Expands Next-Generation Chip Packaging in France

By Bolaji Ojo

STMicroelectronics N.V. has unveiled plans to enhance its technological processes by advancing next-generation chip manufacturing technology at its Tours facility in France. The company said it has committed over $60 million to launch a cutting-edge Panel-Level Packaging (PLP) pilot line, with operations slated to commence in the third quarter of 2026.

The initiative is part of ST’s broader strategy to reshape its manufacturing footprint, focusing on advanced integration and packaging methods that bolster efficiency, flexibility, and scale. The new PLP line will feature collaboration among multidisciplinary experts, including process engineers and data scientists, working to redefine chip packaging and test technology across a broad range of applications, spanning radio frequency (RF), analog, power, and digital products.

“This investment in Tours advances an innovative approach to chip packaging and test manufacturing, aiming to boost productivity and flexibility for deployment across our entire product portfolio,” said Fabio Gualandris, president of quality, manufacturing, and technology at ST, in a statement. “It marks a significant milestone in our roadmap for heterogeneous integration — an efficient new path for scalable chip integration.”

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Renesas 365 Bridges Silicon-Systems Divide, Sets New Benchmark in Electronics

Renesas 365 Bridges Silicon-Systems Divide, Sets New Benchmark in Electronics

Ted Pawela, Vice President of Customer Success at Renesas, discussed Renesas 365 on Tech Vision with Bolaji Ojo, editor-in-chief of TechSplicit. Pawela highlighted the platform’s modular approach, allowing users to start with specific modules like discovery or detailed design. He emphasized the importance of collaboration and shared context among different teams. The platform will support over-the-air updates and fleet management, enhancing system lifecycle management.

Memory Is the Heartbeat of Modern Computing, Says Rambus’ Steven Woo

Memory Is the Heartbeat of Modern Computing, Says Rambus’ Steven Woo

By Bolaji Ojo

What’s at stake: Memory semiconductors and suppliers have taken a lead role on the list of critical components making waves in the artificial intelligence GPU and CPU market. That’s a refreshingly new position for a sector that has typically played a secondary role in electronic system design. With demand surging for memory chips, industry observers say suppliers and IP vendors must raise their game to satisfy requirements for accelerated innovation, higher performance, and supplies.

The memory semiconductor industry stands at a crossroads where innovation and market pressures are redefining the digital infrastructure. But according to Steven Woo, Fellow, and Distinguished Inventor at Rambus, “memory is not just an accessory. It is the heartbeat of computing,” with its relevance surging as artificial intelligence, cloud workloads, and high-bandwidth architectures push technical boundaries.

In a recent conversation with Bolaji Ojo, Editor-in-Chief of TechSplicit, Woo lays out a vision: “AI systems are starved for memory performance … bandwidth and capacity have become the gating factors. What excites me is how much memory is now driving the direction of system design itself.”

Woo’s approach roots the evolution of semiconductor memory in enduring principles. The classic one-transistor, one-capacitor DRAM cell conceptualized by Robert Dennard in 1967 is still the backbone, more than 50 years later. “It’s amazing how the basics have remained consistent, even as the market has transformed several times around it,” Woo notes. This endurance comes as technology enables ever greater density, more complex architectures, and interfaces.

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The Autonomous 2025 Takes on Robotics and Automation Beyond the Wheel

The Autonomous 2025 Takes on Robotics and Automation Beyond the Wheel

By Bolaji Ojo

What’s at stake:  Stefan Poledna, CEO and CTO of TTTech Auto, reveals how the Autonomous event is evolving from a focus on self-driving cars to advancing safe, collaborative autonomy across global industries.

The future of autonomous driving and robotics is at a critical turning point, marked by soaring expectations, regulatory scrutiny, and a transformation of the traditional boundaries between automotive technology and other economic sectors.

The Autonomous Main Event 2025, set for Vienna, Austria, is more than a showcase. It reflects the technology industry’s shifting ambitions and its most pressing questions: Are these intelligent systems truly ready for deployment on a global scale and can safety and trust match innovation?

In the words of Stefan Poledna, CEO and CTO of TTTech Auto: “Autonomous mobility is one of mankind’s biggest technological challenges. It’s about making systems safe.”

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Face-to-Face Value: George Bournazian on Evolving Electronics Marketing

Face-to-Face Value: George Bournazian on Evolving Electronics Marketing

In this episode of the Marketing Electronics Podcast at TechSplicit, George Bournazian, founder and CEO of All Business Marketing, shares hard-won lessons from his 35-year journey in the electronics industry, exploring how credibility, real customer understanding, and close collaboration between sales and marketing remain essential especially as the pressure to do more with less intensifies and the old face-to-face formulas give way to digital strategies and shrinking teams.

American Tech CEOs are being Neutered

American Tech CEOs are being Neutered

By Bolaji Ojo

What’s at stake: President Trump is emasculating the leadership of America’s technology companies, meddling so deeply in their strategic management and sales generation efforts that they might as well be taking detailed instructions from the White House. Trump is bending trade laws to suit his freewheeling ways, acts unmatched by any of his predecessors as president. The technology industry must find ways to curb this intrusion.  

Donald Trump is president of the United States, a noteworthy achievement. In the political world. The presidency does not confer entrepreneurial experience or sagacity, however. By slapping tariffs on trading partners, and threatening to jack up interest on their operations or – in the case of Intel Corp. asking its CEO to resign – Trump is rewriting the duties and curbing the powers of technology companies’ OEMs or chief decision makers, transmitting the view that they are lining up for instructions at the White House.

The American president does not have Jensen Huang’s business pedigree. His entrepreneurial history rests on a far lower rung of the business ladder compared with the experiences of Huang, CEO of Nvidia, Lisa Su (CEO at AMD), and Lip-Bu Tan, (CEO of Intel Corp. Yet, Mr. Trump has inserted himself with reckless naivety into how these companies are managed. His actions do not bode well for the companies he has wrestled power from and, by extension, the rest of the technology world.

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Craig Barrett’s Intel Faux Pas

Craig Barrett’s Intel Faux Pas

By Bolaji Ojo

The story of Intel Corp. is one of American ingenuity sullied by a stubborn combination of naivety and obtuseness at the top. The company’s troubles didn’t emerge out of nowhere. The coincidence brewed of technology and innovations shifts aren’t at play here. Rather, Intel is in the muck it has sunk into today because it couldn’t escape its shiny legacy.

While Craig Barrett, Intel’s CEO from 1998 to 2005 and chairman through 2009, is often lauded for presiding over strong profits and technological advances, it’s time to confront the inconvenient truth: Barrett cannot wash his hands of the mess that Intel has now become. He helped lay its foundations, missed seismic shifts in the semiconductor industry, and imposed strategic inertia that successive CEOs failed to overcome.

Barrett’s tenure coincided with extraordinary shifts in the global electronics landscape, the very sort that demands radical leadership. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, the rise of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reshaped the competitive terrain, as it steadily built an empire in contract chipmaking (foundry services) for a new wave of fabless semiconductor companies. Meanwhile, the mainstreaming of mobile devices signaled the decline of the personal computer as the centerpiece of consumer electronics.

Yet, instead of steering Intel towards these growing markets, Barrett and his lieutenants doubled down on PC-centric strategies. Intel’s world-class fabrication facilities, which were once envied by rivals for their scale and capability, remained closed off to outsiders. The “Intel Inside” mantra was a badge of pride, but also a mask for missed opportunities. Intel made massive investments in communications businesses, running into billions of dollars, but failed to turn these into outstanding successes or footholds in fast-growing markets.

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AI is Nowhere Near its Zenith, but Fears Persist

AI is Nowhere Near its Zenith, but Fears Persist

By Bolaji Ojo

What’s at stake: Artificial Intelligence has raised semiconductors to a height unimagined only a few years ago, but as chipmakers rocket to the top of the global equity markets, the burning questions come up: How long will this stratospheric rise continue; what happens when demand for AI chips stalls and what should semiconductor suppliers do to stay relevant in the new economy?

Nvidia Corp.’s drastic rise to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company is emblematic of a seismic shift: AI chips have ascended to the position of “the new oil,” powering a sprawling ecosystem of generative AI, big data analytics, and automation. But the questions gnawing at everyone aren’t being answered now because most people don’t yet want to examine how long this AI-fueled semiconductor surge will last, the extent of changes taking place in the market’s trajectory, and what could trigger a change in direction.

Many semiconductor industry executives appear ready to weigh in on how their companies are reshaping the dynamics of the global economy, though. At Nvidia’s latest developers’ conference, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, addressed thousands of developers and industry leaders on the gravity of what his company helped catalyze.

“We are witnessing the dawn of a new industrial revolution,” Huang said. “an AI-driven era that’s being built on silicon.” That’s difficult to dispute. Today, Nvidia is not just a tech giant. It is the giant everyone must beat to stand out. With a market capitalization that has soared past Apple’s and Microsoft’s, the firm now stands as the world’s most valuable public company, its fortunes singularly tied to the voracious appetite for artificial intelligence chips.

Yet, the questions about AI’s validity and future keep coming up. How long will the insatiable demand for AI chips last? Could we be overestimating AI’s transformative power, or, conversely, underestimating the deep dependence the global economy is developing on its silicon backbone?

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