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Augmented Reality on Factory Floor

Revealing AR’s Unintended Consequences on the Factory Floor

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.

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Tesla Full Service Driving

California’s Missed Opportunity to Regulate Tesla

By Junko Yoshida

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.

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Untether AI's new accelerator

Untether AI Aims to Become Nvidia of AI Inference

By Junko Yoshida

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?

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Intel chiplet system of chips

Chiplets Are a Second Path to Higher Integration

By Ron Wilson

What’s at stake:
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.

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