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Intel Pans Inward for Foundry Boss; Is Tower Deal in Trouble?
Intel forges ahead with foundry plans despite delay in regulatory approval for Tower Semiconductor purchase.

Robocar No Longer Drives Nvidia GTC
At Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week, the shiniest new object was ChatGPT. Autonomous driving is already an old story.

Podcast: How to Build a ‘Human-Centered Vehicle’
Do carmakers actually know how their automation features are being used by people who drive?

Get Ready for UX-Defined Vehicles or Not
I crave a car that gets me. It knows not just static information – my in-vehicle entertainment preferences – but can dynamically adjust the level of information I need while driving.

The Ultra Question for Ultra Cruise
If GM says it’s safe for me to let the wheel go while fussing on my makeup, let’s see the data.

Nvidia: Not ‘Just a Chip Company’ Anymore
Nvidia subtly shifts business model, stakes future on AI.

IoT Chip Suppliers Race for a Better Mousetrap
The battle over development tools to accelerate software/hardware co-design heats up among semiconductor companies

Cellular IoT: Can a Startup Revive a Stagnant Market?
Blues Wireless takes on the challenge of lowering barriers for cellular IoT developers—on both technology and business fronts

Deep Learning, As You Know It, Will Never Be Good Enough to Trust
We’re running into a brick wall.

Microchip: Riding RISC-V All the Way to New FPGA Platform
Five years after acquiring Microsemi, Microchip faces a bigger question: How can it advance FPGA architecture against competitors without diluting the legacy of an inherited technology?

Examining Tesla’s Claim on Drastic SiC Reduction
We asked Yole Intelligence to analyze what Tesla’s claim entails and the future of the SiC market.

Love Has No Algorithm
When AI advocates discuss their specialty, they lay stress on the second word. It is wiser, however, that the rest of us focus, and dwell protectively, on the artificiality of AI.

Automation in Cars: Promises & Fallacies
Panelists will speak on the growing confusion over different SAE levels, regulatory and legal challenges, and consumer protection.

Podcast: RISC-V Has Crossed the Chasm
Even a conservative company in, say, automotive, has become receptive to RISC-V, Codasip’s CMO Rupert Baines tell us.

The Man Who Put Renesas Back on The Global IC Map
During our conversation in Tokyo, Hidetoshi Shibata who took the helm of Renesas at age 46 in 2019 remained optimistic, forthright, and even self-deprecating.

Renesas Aims High but Industry Cycle May Take a Toll
The new Renesas wants all the trappings of a valuable chipmaker — by 2030.

Introducing the Immersive User Experience
Ahead lies a battle between the giants of the tech industry that will redefine the automotive digital cockpit and the in-cabin experience.

Prophesee’s Big Three: Sony, Qualcomm and Smartphones
Finally, event-based image sensors leveraging neuromorphic engineering principles come to smartphones.

Is That an AI in My Chip Design?
Given the enormous investment and risk going into chip design in the semiconductor industry, we need to ask just how advances in AI will affect electronic design automation (EDA) — the engine that makes chip design possible.

Gauging ‘Reasonable Risk’ in ChatGPT
Does Missy Cummings want ChatGPT to write code? “No,” she says, “I don’t.”
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