By Peter Clarke
Processor intellectual property licenser Arm Ltd. has sued longtime licensee Qualcomm and recent Qualcomm acquisition Nuvia Inc., another Arm licensee, alleging a breach of licensing terms and resultant infringement of Arm’s trademarks.
Read More »Arm’s Suit Against Qualcomm Highlights Strained IP Ecosystem
By Rebecca Day
I assume one day I’ll own smart glasses, though I can’t for the life of me understand why I’d want to today. That’s often how it works with me and tech. Unlike HDTV — which I craved after I first saw eyepopping jockey silk colors in an ABC-TV demo reel — new product categories often take time for me to adjust to. I’m not a tech-for-tech’s sake kind of gal. I need to see a compelling reason buy into the next big thing – and for the price to come down.
Read More »Google Glass May be Half-Full
Engineers, AV enthusiasts, public officials and even ordinary drivers should heed Phil Koopman’s insights, pausing to consider what must be done before unleashing AVs on our streets.
By Junko Yoshida
What’s at stake?
The novelty of AR and/or VR goggles tempts corporations to embrace the technology to bolster worker productivity. What many companies overlook is that short-term productivity gains achieved through technology may come at the cost of workers’ long-term ability to innovate.
Surely, technology can improve worker efficiency in manufacturing – it always has. This truism helps explain why so many corporations are eyeing the new tools of augmented reality and virtual reality (AR and VR) as the next big thing to streamline and improve their production lines. But equally significant is the impact of a given technology on human behavior.
Read More »Revealing AR’s Unintended Consequences on the Factory Floor
The ground-breaking ceremony near Columbus includes an impressive guest list.
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.
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.
Read More »Digi-Key Plays the Darwin Card
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.
As more vehicles are introduced with so-called “hands-free” convenience features, the automotive industry is probing uncharted territory.
Read More »Undefined, Unregulated Hands-Free Driving Means Unsafe Roads
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.
