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Qualcomm Envy Sparks Nvidia-MediaTek Deal
The partnership is aimed at repositioning Nvidia in a broader spectrum of the automotive SoC market, while allowing MediaTek to loosen Qualcomm’s grip on the entry level of the auto market.
Advanced Packaging Holds Key to Chiplet Surge
The emergence of chiplets could restructure the semiconductor industry. But first, the packaging must be in place to support them.
DeepX Founder Aspires to Be ‘Morris Chang of Korea’
AI hardware startups are a dime a dozen. But the founder of DeepX has a loftier goal — to build a company that matters to his home country, South Korea.
Obsolescence at BMW: Planned or Just Short-Sighted?
Go ahead. Trust carmakers who promise lifetime software updates. But verify that car companies can cope with the potential need for the hardware upgrades that often accompany updated software.
What’s Sam Altman’s Game?
Enough with the handwringing, it’s time to shut down public access to AI
Inventory Quagmire: From JIT to JIC and now Just-too-Much
The perfect inventory management solution continues to elude electronics manufacturers and members of the supply chain.
Regressive AI
Movie maven Benjamin defines ‘Regressive AI’ as the digital art of mimcry, formula and redundancy.
Podcast: Let’s Talk About AV Liability
William Widen, a professor of law, and Phil Koopman, an engineering professor, are proposing a new legal framework that rescues automated-vehicle (AV) accidents from the Black Hole of Liability.
Nauto Driven to Fuse Data from ADAS and DMS
Car OEMs must make their highly automated vehicle intuitive enough to respond to imminent danger with a timely handover from the computer driver to the human.
China EV Inc. Preps for Global Market as Western Rivals Wilt
China has become the world’s unquestionable leader in EV batteries and EVs. Don’t be surprised when China floods the globe with their “affordably innovative” electric cars, says a China EV industry insider.
Infineon and ST Buck Chip Downturn but for How Long?
As competitors swoon, Europe’s Top-2 semiconductor makers soar loftily. Even their fiscal 2023 forecasts defy logic but are they truly recession-proof?
Podcast: What’s China EV Inc.’s Next Move?
Tu Le believes that Western automakers, too busy making money hand over fist in China for too long, underestimated Chinese consumers and Chinese automotive market as a whole.
Robo-Driving Handover Time: Pick a Number
With lingering uncertainties in the law, expect needless courtroom wrangling over the number of seconds allowed a panic stricken Human Driver to take the wheel from a Computer Driver who sounded the alarm to transfer control of the vehicle.
Podcast: First the Gorging, Now the Hangover, plus other Problems
Yesterday’s supply chain challenges are becoming history just as new ones are cropping up.
Imitation Driver, Imitation Game
Two professors, one a legal expert, the other in computer engineering, have joined forces to apply Turing’s Imitation Game to a “Computer Driver.” A loss by the Computer Driver results in negligence liability.
Artemis Missions Rekindle the Crew Safety Debate
Returning to the moon will be risky. NASA must acknowledge those risks and work tirelessly to reduce them.
Intel ‘Internal’ vs. Pure-Play Foundry Quandary Deepens
Breaking into the contract chip manufacturing business and gaining the trust of the world’s biggest fabless semiconductor suppliers will remain difficult goals for Intel Foundry Services as long as it remains an outpost of the microprocessor vendor.
Why Send Software Updates to Used Cars?
Strengthened automotive cybersecurity laws have convinced automakers to go all in with software updatable vehicles. How long before a used car is too old for an update?
Bosch: Why Produce SiC in the U.S.?
Bosch’s move to buy TSI Semiconductors in Calif. reflects the pivotal changes emerging in legislation affecting both automotive and semiconductor industries.
Will this Semiconductor Cycle Be Deep or Shallow?
Electronics and semiconductor executives base critical capex and other management actions involving billions of dollars on how accurately they can predict the industry’s sales cycles. They mucked up the last time. Here’s how a repeat can be avoided.
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