Dig Deeper: EDA’s Role in Chiplets
Synopsys says the EDA industry is committed to ensuring that their customers can scale from large single-die SoCs today to multi-die systems incorporating perhaps hundreds of chiplets tomorrow.
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Japan Airlines’ ‘Miracle’ Spotlights Safety Culture
A deadly 1985 crash spawned a “responsibility culture” that helped the Japanese carrier avoid another disaster on the runway.
Schneider Electric Stakes a Claim to Sustainability Leadership
The multinational energy management specialist is leading the sustainability charge on the supply side. Will its initiatives aimed at chip makers seed a sustainability ecosystem?
Chip World ‘24: Prospects to Embrace, Details to Sweat
What’s at stake?
The headlines of 2023 have heralded the march of generative AI, geopolitical tussles over trade and technology and a bubble of government funding to private companies for local chip production. As a result, the semiconductor industry has more political power, economic force and self-importance than ever before. The question in 2024 is how responsibly and effectively chip suppliers will end up flexing all this muscle.
Unquestionably, the chip industry has become a star on the political and economic stages, as the Wall Street Journal aptly noted. The trend will continue in 2024, potentially altering the whos, hows and whats of the semiconductor landscape.
While technological progress has created a fiercely competitive market among leading chip suppliers, 2023 also solidified the semiconductor market around single winners – with no comparable rivals – in the critical areas of lithography (ASML) and foundries (TSMC). That gap between champions and also-rans could eventually recoil on the chip sector, with the industry’s strength limited by the weakest link in the supply chain.
The Ojo-Yoshida Report sat down with Jean-Christophe Eloy, president and CEO of Yole Group (Lyon, France), to hear his assessment of 2023. He told us what stood out (events, companies, technology and business/market trends), what concerns him most (boobytraps awaiting the chip industry), and big shifts he sees in China’s semiconductor plans (and their impact on the West).
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Quintauris RISC-V JV Targets China
What’s at stake?
Geopolitics has driven China to forgo Arm and opt for RISC-V. Can a Europe-based RISC-V joint venture appeal to China’s EV manufacturers?
A RISC-V joint venture, consisting of Robert Bosch, Infineon, NXP Semiconductors, Nordic and Qualcomm came down the chimney just before Christmas. Named Quintauris, the JV announced Alexander Kocher as CEO.
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What’s Behind Synopsys’ Interest in Ansys?
Chiplets serve as the strongest link between Synopsys and Ansys.
Tech is Redefining How Africa Works
By Fred Ohwahwa
What’s at stake?
Africa’s economy was playing catch-up on the technology front before Covid-19 hit, forcing a change in how enterprises engage with employees and further accelerating digitalization efforts by governments and institutions. Now, ordinary Africans are taking over and leveraging technology innovations to launch start-ups or secure international employments or contracts they can do anywhere.
Technology is changing everything in Africa.
Even the nature of how many people work throughout the continent is evolving. Technology innovators, enterprises and investors should be closely monitoring the new generation that never experienced the dynamics of the workplace that prevailed on the continent even as recently as 10 years ago.
To Westerners, some of the changes may have a whiff of catch-up. But that’s where the investment opportunities are springing up. In Africa, leapfrogging technology nodes has become the norm, so much so that young entrepreneurs on the continent are setting the pace for the rest of the world in finance, banking and communications.
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ADAS in 2024: Don’t Expect Clarity on Autonomy & Safety
What’s at stake:
If 2023 marked the public’s disillusionment with robotaxis, 2024 augurs a big shift toward advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) crammed with automated features. Expect the auto industry to play high-stakes games on the safety of highly automated driving, the accelerated use of embedded artificial intelligence, and a fresh emphasis on in-vehicle comfort and convenience.
The $64,000 question in 2024 boils down to this: what sort of future – vehicle platforms and applications – is envisioned by carmakers not named Tesla? Are these carmakers with Tesla, or prepared to chart their own destiny?
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In 2024, AI Here, There and Everywhere
By Peter Clarke
What’s at stake?
With the arrival of Generative AI in the mainstream, in platforms such as ChatGPT in Microsoft’s Bing and Bard within Google, and with billions of dollars of AI processor chip sales, AI was seen to have enjoyed a breakout year in 2023. Well, it’s going to be even bigger in 2024.
What has been a showcasing of Generative AI – as a somewhat whimsical extension of the tools at the disposal of artists and creative professionals – is going to become much more focused and about following the money saved and the profits generated.
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How Tesla’s Plea Deal Foiled Autopilot Remedy
What’s at stake:
After the national safety regulator’s multi-year investigation into nearly 1,000 crashes involving Tesla’s Autopilot, Tesla agreed to a “voluntary recall” of two million cars — almost all its vehicles sold in the United States since 2021. A big question, however, is what exactly Tesla is prepared to do to fix the safety defect.
This was a historic, hard-won victory for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
But Tesla scored an even bigger win.
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