In just under a decade, iMotion has emerged as one of the most influential players in the global ADAS market. Its vision – Smart Mobility for Everyone – has become a commercial reality thanks to deep expertise in software-hardware integration, a commitment to engineering innovation and a collaborative ecosystem led by partners like Renesas.
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake: The world faces the risk of a fractured innovation ecosystem, with the potential for billions of dollars in lost sales, disrupted supply chains, and diverging standards threatening economic growth and technological progress worldwide. As China and America tighten export controls, their efforts to throttle each other’s AI ambitions may accelerate domestic innovation while undermining global collaboration and slowing breakthroughs that benefit health, industry, and society.
The escalating technological rivalry between China and the United States has created a world where the march of artificial intelligence (AI) is now dictated as much by political maneuvering as by technological ingenuity. The battle lines are clear: export controls, nationalist economic strategies, and mutual distrust have thrown the global AI industry into a cycle of uncertainty, regional segmentation, and strategic realignment.
What was framed as the unstoppable rise of transformative technology is caught in the crossfire of geopolitics, with the global economic future, and the very shape of AI’s social impact, hanging in the balance. The ultimate cost: a splintered future where innovative technology and its economic dividends are locked behind rising national barriers, leaving businesses, citizens, and researchers to navigate a high-stakes, unpredictable landscape.
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By Bolaji Ojo
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Leadership stability is paramount for Arrow Electronics as it faces fierce digital competition and falling revenue. With its CEO seat in flux, Arrow risks weakened investor confidence and operational setbacks. The company’s future hinges on quickly securing trusted leadership to drive digital transformation, restore profitability, and protect its standing in a rapidly evolving global electronics supply chain.
The abrupt leadership shakeup at Arrow Electronics, marked by the departure of CEO Sean Kerins and the swift appointment of Bill Austen as interim chief executive, lands at a precarious time for the company and the broader electronics distribution market.
Such abrupt transitions can threaten stability at the executive level, particularly for a global player navigating tight margins, intensifying competition, and evolving customer expectations. When leadership changes come suddenly and without explicit rationale, they naturally breed uncertainty among institutional investors, partners, and the workforce.
Nearly five years ago, we cautioned Arrow Electronics in a LinkedIn post (Arrow Electronics: Who Should Succeed Long as CEO?) against defaulting to an internal succession plan, arguing that while company continuity has value, there are times when looking outside for CEO talent can be transformative.
Read More »Arrow Must Look Externally for a New CEO
By Bolaji Ojo
In an ambitious move that underscores fierce competition in Europe’s embedded systems market, technology innovator Grinn Sp. z o.o. today announced a strategic partnership with global chipset leader MediaTek. The agreement gives Grinn exclusive access to MediaTek’s Genio processor family, enabling it to deliver some of the smallest production-ready systems-on-module (SOMs) for demanding AI and IoT applications.
Industry analysts see the Grinn-MediaTek alliance as a defining moment for Europe’s rapidly evolving embedded hardware sector, which is forecast to grow at a robust 7.4 percent annually between 2025 and 2030.
Access to MediaTek’s technology roadmap and privileged support place Grinn at the forefront among European SOM vendors in addressing complex edge computing and AI demands — particularly as hardware segments continue outpacing broader market averages.
Read More »Grinn-MediaTek Alliance Expands Embedded AI Reach in Europe
By Bolaji Ojo
STMicroelectronics N.V. has unveiled plans to enhance its technological processes by advancing next-generation chip manufacturing technology at its Tours facility in France. The company said it has committed over $60 million to launch a cutting-edge Panel-Level Packaging (PLP) pilot line, with operations slated to commence in the third quarter of 2026.
The initiative is part of ST’s broader strategy to reshape its manufacturing footprint, focusing on advanced integration and packaging methods that bolster efficiency, flexibility, and scale. The new PLP line will feature collaboration among multidisciplinary experts, including process engineers and data scientists, working to redefine chip packaging and test technology across a broad range of applications, spanning radio frequency (RF), analog, power, and digital products.
“This investment in Tours advances an innovative approach to chip packaging and test manufacturing, aiming to boost productivity and flexibility for deployment across our entire product portfolio,” said Fabio Gualandris, president of quality, manufacturing, and technology at ST, in a statement. “It marks a significant milestone in our roadmap for heterogeneous integration — an efficient new path for scalable chip integration.”
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Ted Pawela, Vice President of Customer Success at Renesas, discussed Renesas 365 on Tech Vision with Bolaji Ojo, editor-in-chief of TechSplicit. Pawela highlighted the platform’s modular approach, allowing users to start with specific modules like discovery or detailed design. He emphasized the importance of collaboration and shared context among different teams. The platform will support over-the-air updates and fleet management, enhancing system lifecycle management.
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake: Memory semiconductors and suppliers have taken a lead role on the list of critical components making waves in the artificial intelligence GPU and CPU market. That’s a refreshingly new position for a sector that has typically played a secondary role in electronic system design. With demand surging for memory chips, industry observers say suppliers and IP vendors must raise their game to satisfy requirements for accelerated innovation, higher performance, and supplies.
The memory semiconductor industry stands at a crossroads where innovation and market pressures are redefining the digital infrastructure. But according to Steven Woo, Fellow, and Distinguished Inventor at Rambus, “memory is not just an accessory. It is the heartbeat of computing,” with its relevance surging as artificial intelligence, cloud workloads, and high-bandwidth architectures push technical boundaries.
In a recent conversation with Bolaji Ojo, Editor-in-Chief of TechSplicit, Woo lays out a vision: “AI systems are starved for memory performance … bandwidth and capacity have become the gating factors. What excites me is how much memory is now driving the direction of system design itself.”
Woo’s approach roots the evolution of semiconductor memory in enduring principles. The classic one-transistor, one-capacitor DRAM cell conceptualized by Robert Dennard in 1967 is still the backbone, more than 50 years later. “It’s amazing how the basics have remained consistent, even as the market has transformed several times around it,” Woo notes. This endurance comes as technology enables ever greater density, more complex architectures, and interfaces.
Read More »Memory Is the Heartbeat of Modern Computing, Says Rambus’ Steven Woo
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake: Stefan Poledna, CEO and CTO of TTTech Auto, reveals how the Autonomous event is evolving from a focus on self-driving cars to advancing safe, collaborative autonomy across global industries.
The future of autonomous driving and robotics is at a critical turning point, marked by soaring expectations, regulatory scrutiny, and a transformation of the traditional boundaries between automotive technology and other economic sectors.
The Autonomous Main Event 2025, set for Vienna, Austria, is more than a showcase. It reflects the technology industry’s shifting ambitions and its most pressing questions: Are these intelligent systems truly ready for deployment on a global scale and can safety and trust match innovation?
In the words of Stefan Poledna, CEO and CTO of TTTech Auto: “Autonomous mobility is one of mankind’s biggest technological challenges. It’s about making systems safe.”
Read More »The Autonomous 2025 Takes on Robotics and Automation Beyond the Wheel
In this episode of the Marketing Electronics Podcast at TechSplicit, George Bournazian, founder and CEO of All Business Marketing, shares hard-won lessons from his 35-year journey in the electronics industry, exploring how credibility, real customer understanding, and close collaboration between sales and marketing remain essential especially as the pressure to do more with less intensifies and the old face-to-face formulas give way to digital strategies and shrinking teams.
By Bolaji Ojo
What’s at stake: President Trump is emasculating the leadership of America’s technology companies, meddling so deeply in their strategic management and sales generation efforts that they might as well be taking detailed instructions from the White House. Trump is bending trade laws to suit his freewheeling ways, acts unmatched by any of his predecessors as president. The technology industry must find ways to curb this intrusion.
Donald Trump is president of the United States, a noteworthy achievement. In the political world. The presidency does not confer entrepreneurial experience or sagacity, however. By slapping tariffs on trading partners, and threatening to jack up interest on their operations or – in the case of Intel Corp. asking its CEO to resign – Trump is rewriting the duties and curbing the powers of technology companies’ OEMs or chief decision makers, transmitting the view that they are lining up for instructions at the White House.
The American president does not have Jensen Huang’s business pedigree. His entrepreneurial history rests on a far lower rung of the business ladder compared with the experiences of Huang, CEO of Nvidia, Lisa Su (CEO at AMD), and Lip-Bu Tan, (CEO of Intel Corp. Yet, Mr. Trump has inserted himself with reckless naivety into how these companies are managed. His actions do not bode well for the companies he has wrestled power from and, by extension, the rest of the technology world.
Read More »American Tech CEOs are being Neutered
