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SEMI and AVCC Team to Promote Autonomous Vehicle Innovation and Mass Market Adoption
SEMI and AVCC Team to Promote Autonomous Vehicle Innovation and Mass Market Adoption SAN JOSE and MILPITAS, Calif. — September 27, 2022 — The Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC), a global group of automotive and technology industry leaders
eBeam Initiative Survey Reports EUV Fueling Photomask Industry Growth
Results of 11th annual Luminaries survey to be presented at live event held during SPIE Photomask Technology + EUV Lithography Conference
TechInsights Critical Subsystems Inventory on the Platform
TechInsights Critical Subsystems Inventory on the Platform Critical Sub-systems Inventory Focus Report is now available on the TechInsights Platform: Driving Forces Misc. Reports Inventory 220926 We recently completed a report on inventories of
Innovusion Falcon LiDAR
TechInsights has procured the Innovusion Falcon - an industry-leading automotive-grade LiDAR that has been chosen as the standard configuration for the NIO ET7 autonomous driving system. Given the sizeable opportunities for LiDAR manufacturers , many players in the market are looking to secure deals with large auto groups and auto makers.
Ryzen 7000 Upgrades to Zen 4 and 5nm
AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series processors for high-end desktops employ the new Zen 4 CPU to achieve greater performance and power efficiency.
Snapdragon 6 Boosts Graphics and AI
Qualcomm updated its Snapdragon 6 and 4 lines, moving to a new process, improving performance, and selectively adding features. The new nomenclature aligns with the 7- and 8-series.
Hopper, Startups Debut MLPerf Scores
The MLPerf 2.1 inference release includes preliminary results that put Nvidia’s Hopper H100 in the performance lead. Asian startups Biren and Sapeon also made impressive debuts.
AutoSens Brussels 2022
TechInsights recently attended AutoSens Brussels 2022, held September 12-15th at Autoworld in central Brussels. This blog provides some highlights of recent CMOS Image Sensors developments and trends from the event.
TSMC’s Extraordinary Growth: What’s the problem?
Govt Tech Controls & Chip Slowdown G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® TSMC’s Extraordinary Growth: What’s the problem? TSMC had another extraordinary month in August: Year-over-Year sales growth of 47%. This was up from 41% in July. But down from 56%
SemiWEEK: Quartz component revenues on track to reach $1.4B in 2022; Stocks plummeted
Semiconductor WEEK: An overview of results and conclusions from recent reports at TechInsights.
TechInsights Critical Subsystems Quartz Summary on the Platform
TechInsights Critical Subsystems Quartz Summary on the Platform Summary data from Quartz Focus Report is now available on the TechInsights Platform: Driving Forces Misc. Reports Quartz 220921 We recently completed a focused report on quartz
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report
TechInsights' Semiconductor Analytics Report
Apple iPhone 14 Teardown
The Apple iPhone 14 launch marks the first time Apple launched an iPhone product series with two different processors. The iPhone 14 base models have last year’s Apple A15 Bionic processor, and the more expensive 14 Pro models have the newest Apple 16 Bionic processor. TechInsights has several ongoing Teardowns on the new iPhone 14 series models.
Cerebras Dives Into WSE Architecture
The startup disclosed new details about how its tiny cores deliver tremendous performance and how its sparsity support boosts performance when training large AI models.
CXL 3.0 Opens New Use Cases
The newly unveiled CXL 3.0 introduces memory sharing, direct device peer-to-peer memory access without involving a host, and multilevel switching. A new global fabric-attached memory can be shared by 4,096 hosts.
Updated Trident 4 Monitors Connections
Broadcom has added a network-scanning engine to its 12.8Tbps Trident 4 Ethernet switch. Capable of fingerprinting every packet, the engine improves network security.
Caution is on the rise
Caution is on the rise Andrea Lati Order activity for semiconductor equipment continued to cool off slipping, to 80 degrees The decline in the overall activity has moderated in the last few weeks, but it remains bifurcated Memory activity hit another
Apple iPhone 14 Image Sensor - Apple iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max Cameras
Apple introduced an upgraded main rear cam on the baseline model iPhone 14, a revised front camera module on the iPhone 14 Pro/Max and of course a long-anticipated rear camera resolution upgrade that finally came to the iPhone 14 Pro/Max.