The technical specifications page at Apple’s website lists two asterisked variants for the iPhone 7 that are not CDMA-compatible

Read the full article at: seekingalpha.com

Will educated buyers ask for the “Intel inside” modem version when they learn their phone will not work on CDMA networks? 

This one revealed to me how shaky the INTC Apple modem win is.

annual sales of smart light bulbs in Western Europe will reach 8.8 million units by 2020

Read the full article at: www.parksassociates.com

Personally I’m waiting for the price to come down on these bulbs, possibly until 2020. Meanwhile cars are getting connected to homes at a similar pace. Standards are still missing to make this all work together.

Separate bills that would make hacking into electronic vehicle systems a felony crime in Michigan remain pending in the Senate’s judiciary committee

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

Mostly expected for Michigan to keep up and enable the car business there. What will be impressive is if the legislature can make hacking a felony punishable up to life a sentence in jail.

When car ownership became a reality for millions, people became more connected

Read the full article at: shift.newco.co

Ironically, NOT owning a car seems to be the future for Ford and being more connected is a basic foundation to make this possible. Interesting.

Another bill in the package would also amend the law so that if one of these self-driving vehicles is involved in an accident, the automaker will be held responsible, Kowall told CNN Money.

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

Surprise automakers! If your autonomous car crashes, the law will chase you down for the fault. This could slow down deployment.

Michigan could become first state to allow self-driving cars to take to the roads without a human driver ready to take control.

Read the full article at: money.cnn.com

This could result in a huge boost for Michigan’s economy, and maybe generate enough revenue to fix the potholes!

Anthony is one of the world’s leading autonomous engineers: his first invention, a self-driving motorcycle called Ghostrider, is now in the Smithsonian.

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

Now we understand the business model for Google to invest in self-driving cars. They are manufacturing millionaires! 

This approach, commonly known as tick-tock, has been replaced by tick-tock-tock, in which a CPU line that further optimizes the new architecture is rolled out using the same manufacturing process

Read the full article at: www.thestreet.com

It may turn to Tick-Tock-Toe unless INTC can move more quickly into a foundry for ARM and other fast selling chips. This would be best for INTC’s customers – Wall Street Investors.

The suite of features is merely enabled by software. Additionally, the cost of enabling it after taking delivery also has gone up by $500 to $3500

Read the full article at: blog.caranddriver.com

Demand and supply affects Tesla like any other, will mainstream cars with autopilot features pay premium? Adding the hardware missing in most cars could raise the sticker to more than a Tesla.

In the area of semiconductor technology he established important cooperation, for example with Nvidia in the area of graphics processing units

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

The nVidia collaboration with Audi was a big one, Why leave now before it lands in any production vehicles? Or will it ever?