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Monte Carlo Formula E Race | Trade War: China’s View | AI @ Hot Chips

EE Times Current · 31 May 2019 · 20m

What this episode covers

Rick Merritt reports on the Hot Chips conference lineup, highlighting a shift toward AI accelerators with talks from Cerebras, Habana, Intel, and Upmem, while noting Huawei's potential absence due to trade tensions. Junko Yoshida interviews David Fritz from Siemens about the design challenges of autonomous vehicle SoCs, contrasting the automotive industry's reactive validation cycles with the smartphone industry's rigorous pre-silicon methodologies. Sally Ward Foxton reports from the Formula E race in Monte Carlo, discussing the new Gen2 car's battery capacity and the critical role of software in powertrain management, while also highlighting team principal Susie Wolff's experiences with gender bias in motorsport. Finally, Echo Zhao provides a perspective from China on the US-China trade war, describing the pragmatic response of electronics suppliers like Huawei and their 'Plan B' vendors.

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large enterprises

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Companies
Cerebras, Habana, Intel, Upmem, Huawei, AMD, IBM, Siemens, Qualcomm, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Venturi, Tesla, Apple, Sega
Also
Hot Chips, Formula E, Susie Wolff, Felipe Massa

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