SAN FRANCISCO: Arm Holdings, the chip technology firm owned by SoftBank Group Corp, on Tuesday pushed deeper into the automotive world with chip aimed at handling the streams of sensor data expected to help self-driving cars eventually navigate the roads, pushing further into turf being contested by Intel Corp and others.Arm's newest chip design is called the Cortex-A65AE, expected to hit markets in 2020, and is designed around the idea of being able to handle the stream of data from a self-driving car's sensors in near real-time, but with new safety features intended to make the chips better suited to cars, where glitches that are minor annoyances in consumer electronics could lead to crashes.Arm is best known a supplier of chip technology to mobile phones. It provides some of the underlying designs and technology for essentially all mobile phone processor chips, including both Apple Inc's iPhones and Android devices powered Qualcomm Inc's chips.In September, Arm introduced its first … [Read more...] about Arm Holdings unveils chip aimed at self-driving car sensors
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Apple and many other tech giants have Wall Street disease
The boom witnessed in the US equity market over the past few years has begun to echo the latter stages of the high-tech bubble of the early 2000s, right down to the investor interest ultimately gravitating toward five stocks that have posted substantial gains, and obtained an almost cult-like status among their respective devotees. In 2002, it was Lucent, Cisco, Microsoft, Dell and Intel. Today, it’s Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. They’ve even got an acronym among their followers: FAANG. The dailyReport Must-reads from across Asia - directly to your inbox Taken in aggregate, these five stocks account for about one-quarter of the NASDAQ’s total market capitalization. In fact, just three months ago, Apple alone became the first publicly traded US company to reach a US$1 trillion market capitalization. But just as the Big 5 of the last high-tech boom ultimately came unstuck, so too, one by one, today’s tech titans are gradually being … [Read more...] about Apple and many other tech giants have Wall Street disease