On the Weekly Briefing podcast: The world economy is reeling. Despite the travails, the electronics industry has been doggedly slogging on — but can it keep going? A conversation with Renesas EVP Sailesh Chittipeddi about the industry’s improving outlook, fab capacity, customer demand, green engineering, and more. Also, an interview with Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino. Sponsored by Renesas.

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The Prognosis is Actually Pretty Good

On the Weekly Briefing podcast: Prosthetic vision, a common concept in science-fiction, has long been out of reach in reality – but perhaps for not much longer. Researchers are about to start experiments to see if they can restore vision to the blind using prosthetics based on advanced sensor technology. Our guest is Philip Troyk, head of the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering at Illinois Tech and the CEO of semiconductor supplier Sigenics.

On the Verge of Artificial Vision  

This week’s podcast: AI is different from traditional computing, and it is stressing supporting technology in entirely new ways. That goes not only for processors (as one might expect), but also for memory chips. This week, a conversation with Steven Woo of Rambus, on the special challenges of AI.  

AI and Semiconductor Memory: More, More, More

This week’s podcast: Some amazing things have been accomplished with AI, but if AI is to become widely adopted, it must be safe and reliable, and there is no framework for demonstrating AI is either. Helen Toner, Director of Strategy at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, talks about what safe, reliable AI should look like.

Building a Framework to Trust AI 

This week’s podcast: We’ll be talking about the IoT, why AI and ML are critical at the edge, not just for applications, but for security. Our guest this week is Chris Catterton; he’s the head of solution engineering at a startup that two weeks ago was called OneTech but as of this week has been renamed Micro.AI.

Taming the Wild Edge

This week’s podcast: Facebook is heading for the metaverse, and Nvidia toward the omniverse. These “places” are going to combine the real and the digital in many different ways, but they’ll all depend on display technology. We talk with Jon Peddie and Kathleen Maher from Jon Peddie Research about what a metaverse might be, and what metaverses mean for the electronics industry and, more importantly, for the us as we interface with the world.

Bigger Than Smartphones

This week’s podcast: After designing the world’s first working microprocessor and then pioneering in artificial intelligence, Federico Faggin has one last great frontier left to explore: human consciousness. A free-wheeling conversation with an industry legend on machine learning, quantum physics, experience, and more.

Of Calculation and Consciousness

This week’s podcast: Our guest this week is Hassane El-Khoury, who nine months ago was named president and CEO of Onsemi (formerly ON Semiconductor). We talk about the transformation of the company, and what it’ll take to succeed in the semiconductor market when every IC company is going after the same growth markets.

CEO Interview: Hassane El-Khoury is Getting Onsemi Focused

This week’s podcast: Tyson Tuttle spent the majority of his career at Silicon Labs, at the C-level for the last 12 years, and now he’s moving on from the company. A discussion with Tuttle about the risk of betting it all on the Internet of things, on where the IoT might be going, about managing a modern company, and more.

CEO Interviews: Tyson Tuttle Did What He Came To Do

This week’s podcast: You thought the Internet of things was big? Welcome to the Internet of everything. Our guest this week is Qualcomm Technologies VP of engineering John Smee. Qualcomm is one of the companies defining the standards and building the technology of the Internet of everything. We asked Smee for a Big Picture view of what it is and what it could be, and he delivered: the internet, connected cars, smart cities, VR, 5G, edge systems, and so very much more.

5G and the Internet of Everything

This week’s podcast: Our guest is Intel SVP Sanjay Natarajan. There are only three companies in the world that can make the most advanced ICs possible —TSMC, Samsung, and Intel — and lately, people have been wondering about Intel. Intel just announced a roadmap that will take it to 2025 and (the company says) regain its position as the leading IC manufacturer. We talk with Natarajan about Intel “getting its mojo back.”

  Intel on Getting Its Mojo Back

This week’s podcast: The advantages of making power ICs in materials like gallium nitride instead of silicon are rapidly snowballing. We talk with guest Doug Bailey, marketing VP and applications engineering with Power Integrations, about what the evolution from Si to GaN means for engineers and how they design products, and also about some very tangible consequences for consumers.

Life, the Universe, and Power ICs

This week’s podcast: As the semiconductor sector evolves, we tend to scrutinize the evolutionary steps – the new technologies, the mergers and acquisitions. That elides the big question: what is the industry evolving toward? A discussion with Tirias Research analyst Jim McGregor on where this bus is heading.

Whither Semiconductors? The Wheels on the Bus Go ‘Round and ‘Round

This week’s podcast: A few years back, engineers created the SAM car, a vehicle that enabled quadriplegic former Indy racer Sam Schmidt to drive again. Now they’ve followed with the SAM suit, an exoskeleton that let Schmidt dance with his daughter at her wedding. Sam, the SAM car, and the SAM suit, with Arrow Electronics chief marketing officer Victor Gustaf Gao.

To Walk Again: the SAM Suit Saga

This week’s podcast: EE Times just published the 2021 edition of the Silicon 100, our latest list of startups that merit everyone’s attention. In this episode we talk Peter Clarke, the impresario behind the Silicon 100, about the latest round of startups and what the list says about where the electronics industry is heading.

The Silicon 100: How Startups Rule the Future

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