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AI-enabled ASIC brings high processing power to driver monitoring systems
AI-enabled ASIC brings high processing power to driver monitoring systems
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Omnivision’s OAX4600 delivers seamless DMS/OMS functionality and automotive design flexibility with integrated RGB-IR ISPs and two NPUs in a small…
Untether to develop autonomous vehicle perception for General Motors
Untether to develop autonomous vehicle perception for General Motors
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AI processor firm Untether AI (Toronto, Ontario) has formed a collaboration with General Motors to develop next-generation artificial intelligence perception…
Black Sesame ADAS vision processor ready for production
Black Sesame ADAS vision processor ready for production
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Visual processor company Black Sesame Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China) has announced that its HuaShan-2 A1000 autonomous driving chip will…
dSpace aligns with Cognibit for AI-based traffic simulation models
dSpace aligns with Cognibit for AI-based traffic simulation models
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Technology providers dSpace and Cognibit plan to work together to generate the most realistic traffic simulations possible for the development…

India lobbies Intel, Globalfoundries, TSMC for fabs
India lobbies Intel, Globalfoundries, TSMC for fabs
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The Indian government is talking to Intel, Globalfoundries and TSMC about setting up local chipmaking operations, according to a Bloomberg report that quotes Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of state for technology…
Yole: Intel foundry is plan to offset processor decline
Yole: Intel foundry is plan to offset processor decline
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The market for processors was worth $150 billion in 2021 split between FPGA, GPU, CPU and application processing units (APUs), according to Yole Developpement. Processor (FPGA, CPU, GPU,…
TSMC, Taiwan to increase foundry market share in 2022
TSMC, Taiwan to increase foundry market share in 2022
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The rest of the world – including South Korea – will lose foundry revenue market share to Taiwan and China in 2022 compared to 2021, according to data from TrendForce.
Russia in $38bn electronics plan
Russia in $38bn electronics plan
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The Russian government has developed a plan to spend almost 3.2 trillion roubles (about US$38.6bn) on Russian electronics up until 2030, according to Cnews.ru. Of this amount the authorities want…
China’s chip output falls due to Covid lockdowns
China’s chip output falls due to Covid lockdowns
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China’s production of ICs fell in March by 5.1 percent year-on-year to 28.5 billion units, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This is a marked…
Cloud-based AI for industrial asset monitoring
Cloud-based AI for industrial asset monitoring
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Sensata Technologies Holding plc has announced a software platform that makes it possible to monitor industrial and commercial remotely. The system uses multiple sensors and allows them to be monitored…
Russia plans to spend $38.6 billion on semiconductor catchup
Russia plans to spend $38.6 billion on semiconductor catchup
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The Russian government has developed a plan to spend almost 3.2 trillion roubles (about US$38.6 billion on Russian electronics up until 2030, according to Cnews.ru. Of this amount the authorities…
Swiss-Chinese AI chip developer cuts cockpit deal with BMW
Swiss-Chinese AI chip developer cuts cockpit deal with BMW
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SynSense (Chengdu, China) has agreed to explore the use of neuromorphic chips in smart cockpits with BMW. SynSense was founded in Zurich, Switzerland, March 2017 as aiCTX to commercialize advances…
Stellantis relies on Qualcomm for ADAS and automated driving
Stellantis relies on Qualcomm for ADAS and automated driving
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The Stellantis Group, with its 14 brands, will rely on Qualcomm technology in future when it comes to ADAS, connection to the cloud and intelligent data use and interaction between…
SIA signs with Indian counterpart to boost chip cooperation
SIA signs with Indian counterpart to boost chip cooperation
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The Semiconductor Industry Association has signed a memorandum of understanding with the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) agreeing to foster collaboration between the two countries in the semiconductor sector.
BrainChip, SiFive partner on AI/ML at the edge
BrainChip, SiFive partner on AI/ML at the edge
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Spiking neural network processor IP pioneer BrainChip Holdings Ltd. is working with RISC-V computing pioneer SiFive Inc. to offer edge machine learning. BrainChip launched its Akida processor in 2018 (see…
Arm server processor startup Ampere files for IPO
Arm server processor startup Ampere files for IPO
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ARM-based server processor provider Ampere Computing LLC has filed for an initial public offering of stock on a confidential basis. Ampere was founded in October 2017 by Renee James, a…
Foundries’ March sales up 33% y-on-y
Foundries’ March sales up 33% y-on-y
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Taiwanese foundries – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and United Microelectronics. Corp. – both achieved sales revenue in March that was up 33.2 percent year-on-year. Sales revenue at leading foundry…
Intel, ADI in US chip alliance
Intel, ADI in US chip alliance
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Three leading US chip manufacturers have joined Mitre Engenuity’s semiconductor alliance with the aim of bolstering the resilience of the US semiconductor industry. Intel and Analog Devices, which both have…
Intel, Micron, Analog Devices form US chip alliance
Intel, Micron, Analog Devices form US chip alliance
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Intel, Micro and Analog Devices – three leading US chip manufacturers – have joined Mitre Engenuity’s semiconductor alliance with the aim of bolstering the resilience of the US semiconductor industry.
Finnish quantum startup to supply Israel universities
Finnish quantum startup to supply Israel universities
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IQM Finland Oy (Espoo, Finland) is providing both Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, with quantum computers. Research groups at the two universities will conduct…
China’s share of global fabless IC market collapsed in 2021
China’s share of global fabless IC market collapsed in 2021
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China’s share of the global fabless IC market fell to 9 percent in 2021, down from 15 percent in 2020, according to figures from IC Insights. At the same time…
Asia-Pacific annual chip market growth joins Americas’ above 40%
Asia-Pacific annual chip market growth joins Americas’ above 40%
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The global chip market continued to boom in February with chip sales into the Asia-Pacific region up 41.4 percent higher than a year before on a three-month average basis, according…
Swiss quantum startup proposes ferroelectric FET, extends Series A
Swiss quantum startup proposes ferroelectric FET, extends Series A
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Terra Qauntum AG (Rorschach, Switzerland) has published research on a form of ferroelectric negative capacitance field effect transistor and extended its Series A funding round to $75 million. Terra Quantum…
Flex Logix announces production availability of AI inference boards
Flex Logix announces production availability of AI inference boards
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InferX™ X1M AI inference boards deliver high performance and ultra low power in a tiny M.2 form factor for space and power constrained applications.
Startup Syntiant ships 20 million AI processors, raises $55 million
Startup Syntiant ships 20 million AI processors, raises $55 million
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Syntiant Corp. (Irvine, Calif.), the developer of analog machine learning processors for the edge, has shipped more than 20 million chips and closed $55 million in a round of funding.
Neuromorphic startup Reexen gains ground with Goertek
Neuromorphic startup Reexen gains ground with Goertek
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Analog and mixed-signal neuromorphic startup Reexen Technology Co. Ltd. has achieved a key design win with microphone assembler Goertek and has partnerships with Philips and STMicroelectronics. Reexen has a two-stage…
CEO interview: Silicon Labs’ Matt Johnson on balancing breadth and focus
CEO interview: Silicon Labs’ Matt Johnson on balancing breadth and focus
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Matt Johnson took over as CEO Silicon Laboratories’ at the beginning of 2022. We grasped an opportunity to ask what’s new and what stays the same for the wireless IoT…
IMEC venture capital raises second fund
IMEC venture capital raises second fund
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The early-stage venture capital fund, imec-xpand, has raised €150 million (about US$165 million) towards its second fund. It has a target of raising €250 million (about US$275 million) but…


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