Hardware Podcasts

Episode 14: The Wide World of Sensors

The Circuit · 11 Apr 2023 · 31m · Episode 14

What this episode covers

Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg discuss the resurgence of the sensor market, driven by the transition from analog to digital and the falling costs of semiconductor manufacturing. They highlight how companies like Texas Instruments, NXP, and STMicroelectronics are leveraging legacy analog capacity and RISC-V architectures to create high-performance, low-cost sensors. The hosts argue that advances in AI and software analytics have finally made the value of this data clear, turning sensors from commodities into strategic assets for industrial IoT and automotive applications.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Texas Instruments, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Qualcomm, GE, Honeywell, Chevron, NVIDIA
Chips
RISC-V, ARM

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