Editorial: OEMs Lack Good Value Options

Overly cautious about rising development costs and risk, vendors aren’t refreshing their lower-cost processors, hurting themselves and customers. They must consider business cases other than merely chasing the biggest customers.
01Aug

Enlightra Team Demos Photonic AI Engine

A research team led by Enlightra’s founders demonstrated a new method of photonic AI inference that is smaller than earlier photonics implementations. Using photonics also provides opportunities for resource sharing that aren’t available with electronics.
01Aug

Exchange Rates. Forecasting Guide. Risk vs Uncertainty

Exchange Rates. Forecasting Guide. Risk vs Uncertainty G. Dan Hutcheson The Chip Insider® Comments, Questions & Answers: “Dan, what’s up with exchange rates?” The Euro is at parity with the Dollar and the Yen is approaching 140 to the dollar. Back at the start of 2021, the Euro was around 80 cents
29Jul

Teardown: Lenovo Mirage VR S3 headset

Teardown: Lenovo Mirage VR S3 headset Virtual reality (VR) headsets have taken off in recent years after remaining stagnant due to more content becoming available for users to enjoy both movies, games and other entertainment forms. With the inception of the metaverse, it is likely VR and augmented
28Jul

Temperatures are cooling off, but the path is still clear

Temperatures are cooling off, but the path is still clear Andrea Lati Order activity for semiconductor equipment continued to cool off, slipping to 88 degrees Despite the recent slowdown, order activity remains in a healthy expansion phase Bookings and backlogs are still hovering at record levels
26Jul