Rise of Adaptive Driving Beam
In Europe and Japan, Adaptive Driving Beam for headlights is viewed as "the biggest innovation in automotive lighting.
Startup Takes NB-IoT to New Lows
Startup Riot Micro announced a chip optimized to take NB-IoT and Cat M1 to new lows for LTE-based cellular IoT…
Taiwan R&D Group Rolls AI for Fault Prediction
Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), one of the world's largest high-tech research institutions, has introduced AI software that can…
Waymo, Navya Vie In Robo-Taxi
The "robo-taxi" changed virtually overnight from a "what-if" scenario dreamt by automotive visionaries to the public pledge of an imminent…
With 450mm on Ice, 300mm Shoulders Heavier Load
With the semiconductor industry's plans to transition to 450mm wafers on deep freeze, chipmakers are doubling down on 300mm fabs.
Leaker of TSMC Secrets Joins SMIC as Co-CEO
Liang Mong-song, a former employee at TSMC who leaked process technology to Samsung several years ago, has joined China's SMIC…
Foundries Target China
With the share of the pure-play foundry market going to China on the rise, foundries are increasing their manufacturing presence…
NXP Seeks ‘Edge’ vs. Intel, Cavium
As the lines begin to blur between cloud and edge computing, NXP Semiconductors is racing to offer the highest performance…
5G Radio Spec Slims Down
Qualcomm engineer and 3GPP chair Wanshi Chen is on the hook to deliver by the end of the year a…
TSMC Aims to Build World’s First 3-nm Fab
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will build the world's first 3-nm fab in the Tainan Science Park in southern Taiwan, where…