Final Thought

April 2018

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

In-House Processing Brings Cost-Effective AI

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Earlier this year I wrote a blog on Google and its tensor processing units. The company had just launched the second generation of its powerful ICs that provide the computing power for its vast datacentres around the world. The processors are specifically designed for the complex AI computational tasks found in

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04/24/2018

Automated Driving Technologies Will Never Be Perfect

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

As a species, we have an innate fear of a fictional robot apocalypse, and it colors our every reaction to semi-autonomous and autonomous systems. Case in point – the agita over the handful of semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicle fatal crashes. Back in March, a Tesla Model X ran into a concrete lane divider at high speed, killing the driver in a horrific fiery wreck. The hook? The vehicle’s autop

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04/23/2018

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

One year on, how does the Analog Devices takeover of Linear Technology look?

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

It’s been almost a year a year to the day (10th March) since Analog Devices announced that the company had completed its approximately $15 billion takeover of Linear Technology. The initial announcement had come as a shock to the industry, in that one of the seemingly few remaining large privately owned electro

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04/16/2018

2018 Will be a SiC Year

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

We’ve been playing soothsayer a lot lately, but if you strolled the halls of the Henry B. González Convention Center at APEC 2018, one theme was absolutely inescapable – the ubiquity of silicon carbide (SiC). 2018 should be its coming-out party. Nearly every company we visited chatted up the magnitude

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04/10/2018