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 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.
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
What’s at stake?
As AV crashes on public roads pile up, public skepticism grows. The crisis the AV industry faces involves public safety, not public relations. Can any AV company prove—with evidence—how safe at this moment their vehicles are?
By Bolaji Ojo
If Intel Corp. is to successfully complete its promised $200 billion-plus fab investment over the next decade it will need more than the $10 billion to $15 billion in seed funding analysts expect it to receive from the U.S. CHIPS Act passed recently by Congress.
Read More »Tough Questions for Intel CEO and Its Board
By Peter Clarke
Over the last few years, with strong IC demand exceeding supply, wafer fab operators have put the pedal to the metal with major capital expenditures.
Read More »Beware the Semiconductor ‘Bullwhip Effect’
If the tortured debate over funding a revival of American semiconductor manufacturing is any indication, then the United States is far from forging a badly needed technology innovation strategy.
Read More »First, Semiconductors. Then, an Innovation Road Map
Level 5 is a fantasy destination for now, and consumers don’t even want to go there. Luckily there’s an alternative route to demonstrable automation competency.
By Peter Clarke
Reports that the United States is pressuring the Netherlands to withhold export licenses for deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography equipment ratchets up the U.S.-China trade/cold war that has been growing in intensity since 2018.
Read More »China and the Turn of the Deep-UV Screw
