Automotive Week In Review


Quick links: Automotive chips, Autonomous, EVs, Batteries, Policy, Research. Automotive chips  Mythic and Honda will jointly develop an automotive-grade AI SoC for Honda’s SDVs that leverages Mythic’s energy-efficient analog compute-in-memory technology. ST released a new MCU with AI acceleration for the automotive edge, integrating an embedded neural network accelerator. I... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review


Deals: NVIDIA inked a $20B non-exclusive licensing deal with Groq for its inference technology. The startup's founder, Jonathan Ross, and some other employees will join NVIDIA to assist in scaling and advancing the technology. The non-exclusive licensing deal, versus an outright purchase, is a tool other companies have used to avoid antitrust regulation. Samsung Ventures made a strategic inv... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA warned about power swings and physical damage to power grids increasing from AI training workloads and jointly proposed a multi-pronged approach to stabilize power in AI training data centers. Meanwhile, Anthropic issued a warning about the weaponization of agentic AI in a new 25-page Threat Intelligence report. Key concerns involve the evolution in AI-assisted ... » read more