What’s at stake?
Armed with its own unique at-memory compute architecture, Untether AI wants to lead the general-purpose AI inference accelerator market. Can the startup unseat leading CPU and GPU vendors that dominate the AI training sector and are extending their reach into AI inference? Is the knock-your-socks-off performance enough to pull that off?
A BMW iX “test vehicle” that crashed on Aug. 15 near Römerstein, Germany, initially generated a lot of justifiable media coverage.
The accident killed one woman and seriously injured nine others, including the 43-year-old driver of the BMW and the driver’s 18-month-old passenger. The BMW vehicle had veered onto the oncoming lane, hitting two vehicles and indirectly causing another collision.
Read More »BMW iX Crash: Getting at the Cause
By Ron Wilson
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As the industry moves down the Moore’s Law path toward 2nm, increasing design and process costs and spiraling complexity threaten to limit the game to only two or three fabrication companies and only a few of their customers. But a reconsideration of an old idea—building a system out of multiple dies in a single package—could break through these strictures, reopening the industry to smaller customers and giving many organizations and many countries opportunities to participate.
By Colin Barnden
What’s at stake?
Who ensures the public’s safety when automakers test experimental automated driving technology on public roads? The answer may actually be nobody.
By Adele Hars
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While carriers have tried to roll out the superfast millimeter-wave part of the 5G promise, they’ve been hampered by hot and power-hungry uplink technology in handsets. Finwave says its FinFET-on-GaN power amplifiers will fix that problem, and more.
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake?
The future of Intel is in manufacturing semiconductors for other chipmakers, which could help fulfill U.S. geopolitical objectives but require the company to spin off its design operation.
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Taxpayer funds appropriated by Congress draw a corporate crowd. The Commerce Department now faces the daunting task of distributing CHIPS Act funding in a way that quickly rebuilds U.S. technology supply chains. We’re following the money.
What’s at stake?
Big funding, no matter in what country, attracts lobbyists galore, while politicians and corporate executives jockey for pieces of the action. China’s experience in this feeding frenzy ended in the collapse of Tsinghua Unigroup and the tarnished reputation of its “Big Fund.” There are lessons here as the United States considers how to oversee, divvy up and execute the CHIPS Act.
Last weekend, a handful of Muskovite vigilantes used their children as guinea pigs to prove that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) functions are unlikely to mow down a small child crossing the road.
This dubious effort by amateur Tesla testers was triggered by a video clip posted on Twitter by Taylor Ogan, CEO of Snow Bull Capital, a technology hedge fund (see below). It showed a Tesla obliterating a child-size crash dummy on a test course.
Read More »Road Test Using ‘Live’ Kids Exposes AV Absurdity
To succeed as a viable manufacturer of semiconductors, a supply chain expert argues Intel Corp. should redirect resources from its chip R&D and design operations to instead focus on its foundry operations.
Read More »Intel Should Adopt Pure-Play Foundry Model
