Intel Prepares to Break Ground on Ohio Fab
The ground-breaking ceremony near Columbus includes an impressive guest list.
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California’s Missed Opportunity to Regulate Tesla
What’s at stake:
Safety on public roads grows more tenuous. Tesla’s fraud isn’t just promoting its vehicles as self-driving when they are not. More problematic is that Tesla builds shoddy SAE Level 4 cars equipped with beta software, leading customers to believe they can drive Teslas anywhere. California legislators missed the big picture, a critic argues.
Digi-Key Plays the Darwin Card
By Bolaji Ojo
Sales are surging at component distributors amidst swollen margins as the electronic industry continues its multi-year upturn. But distributors are also witnessing turbulence amidst supply shortages, extended lead times, weakening global economy, export restrictions and other geopolitical pressures occasioned by the stiffening rivalry between China and the United States.
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A Reborn Intel Enters the RISC-V Ecosystem
What’s at stake:
For the world’s largest CPU vendor to become a genuine facilitator for the open source RISC-V community, Intel must demonstrate its intent and commitment. Is its Pathfinder initiative for RISC-V enough? Can Intel gain the trust from those in the RISC-V ecosystem? At stake is the future of Intel Foundry Services.
Undefined, Unregulated Hands-Free Driving Means Unsafe Roads
As more vehicles are introduced with so-called “hands-free” convenience features, the automotive industry is probing uncharted territory.
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Startups Seek to Crash the Metaverse Party
By Peter Clarke
What’s at stake:
An intriguing array of young companies fall into two general camps: those working at the human-machine interface and those providing the communications needed to handle the massive volumes of data that virtual reality will generate.
Look, Kids! No Hands!
What the hands-free driving ads miss is the primordial urge to grab the steering wheel.
Metaverse, Omniverse–How Versed Can We Get?
By Jon Peddie
Anyone who has read anything about the metaverse probably knows Neal Stephenson coined the term in Snow Crash in 1992. William Gibson wrote about a similar place he called Cyberspace in 1984, and the idea of an alternate digital reality has been a staple of science fiction ever since. This generation’s version was described by Ernest Cline’s 2011 book Ready Player One and the eponymous film that followed.
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Proposed ‘Reverse CFIUS’ Would Curb China Investments
What’s at stake:
Backers of proposed bipartisan legislation to create a Committee on National Critical Capabilities have failed to win over Congress thus far. But the latest version of the “reverse CFIUS” bill stands a better chance of passage, with implications for U.S. tech concerns looking to invest in China.
Intel Seeks to Lessen Cash Squeeze With Brookfield Deal
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake?
Intel needs far more money than it can generate from operations or receive from governments to fund its massive fab construction program. A partnership with investor Brookfield may help ease the pains.