Back in August (2016), global automotive parts maker Delphi and MobileEye, a leader in the field of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, announced a new partnership, details from the Wall Street Journal here. The deal is interesting because it highlights Delphi’s […]
First off, LiDAR is aa detection system which works on the principle of radar, but uses light from a laser. Why should you care? Well, they are a critical component in 3D mapping systems- and- based on this investment from […]
Last month, the Society of Automotive Engineers of China (SAEC), published its blueprint for the development of the automotive industry until 2030, with particular emphasis on highly or fully autonomous driving- you can read the details here. According to the […]
Last month, autonomous vehicle startup nuTonomy stopped all trials of its vehicles until investigations into an accident involving one of its driverless cars is completed, according to the company’s co-founder Emilio Frazzoli, details here. Just two months earlier, the world’s […]
BMW and Baidu have reportedly ended their 2 year long alliance to jointly develop autonomous-driving technology- details from Reuters here. According to BMW’s China CEO Olaf Kastner, the alliance is over because “the development pace and the ideas of the two companies […]
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich attended a different kind of conference this week- the LA Auto Show’s AutoMobility conference. There, he announced that Intel Capital is targeting more than $250 million of additional new investments over the next two years to […]
Emboldened, perhaps, by their major design win at Baidu last month (details here), Xilinx this week is demonstrating its reconfigurable acceleration for cloud scale applications at SC16. According to their press release, they will “highlight how Xilinx® All Programmable technologies are […]
Intel finally announced its first commercially available products based on its proprietary silicon photonics technology (which was fifteen years in the making) at IDF back in August, details from CNET here. What exactly is silicon photonics? At its simplest, it can […]
Yesterday I speculated about the possible buyers for Lattice Semiconductor and Xilinx- today we have the answer to one of those questions. Lattice has sold itself to a little known California investment firm called Canyon Bridge Capital Partners for $1.3 billion, […]
According to Bloomberg, Skyworks is in the process of making a bid for Microsemi Corporation – you can read the details here. Now, who are Microsemi and why should I care, I hear you ask. Well, they are a US-based […]