➀ The EU's 20% global chip market share target by 2030 is deemed unrealistic by auditors, urging a strategic reassessment;
➁ Huawei plans to sample its Ascend 910D AI processor in late May, targeting competition with NVIDIA's H100, with mass production on SMIC's 7nm process in 2026;
➂ NXP Semiconductors announces CEO transition from Kurt Sievers to Rafael Sotomayor in October 2025, following Sievers' 30-year tenure and strategic leadership.
➀ At Embedded World 2025, we spoke with Manuel Alves from NXP Semiconductors about the recently announced S32K5 microcontroller family;
➁ He discusses its significance in the automotive industry's shift towards software-defined vehicles (SDVs);
➂ He explains how the S32K5 family enhances the NXP CoreRide platform for SDV development.
➀ The UK Space Agency backs Excelerate for a multi-beam satellite antenna project;
➁ DARPA NOM4D program to test in-space manufacturing;
➂ PositronAI raises $23.5m for FPGA-based AI inference ICs;
➃ OpenAI to tape-out its first chip on TSMC 3nm;
➄ NXP acquires Kinara, an NPU specialist.
