Tip 4: For devices that have mobile phone apps, be sure to run the latest version.

Source: www.darkreading.com

Get used to updating your car as frequently as your phone

I ride my road bicycle past the potential future plant called Intel Fab OC42 nearly every week and am forced to recall Andy Grove’s criticism of irrational exuberance during the glory days of this manufacturing leader

Source: www.linkedin.com

Competition hardens businesses, sometime sharpening the blade.

Among the ideas that could be advanced by 5G: autonomous vehicles, interconnected appliances, remote surgery, smart-city transportation grids, and immersive education and entertainment, Mr. Wheeler said

Source: www.wsj.com

DSRC 5.9Ghz promised safety use by cars, who would have known 17 years later it would be a big topic still, and for a larger market.

“It took us only nine months to standardise the new technology after the study phase,” said Dino Flore, chairman of the 3GPP RAN group. “Once again 3GPP demonstrated the ability to quickly respond to the emerging market needs.”

Source: www.totaltele.com

So much for the legacy slowness of standards orgs, I think the OSS community is speeding things up, in advance of their code based prototypes now.

Tech companies want to claim some of the airwaves dedicated to the car-safety systems 17 years ago

Source: www.bloomberg.com

Wow, I thought it was only about 15 years ago that 5.9Ghz DSRC was promised by the FCC to the auto industry and they are finally deploying in a few ten thousand new Caddys.I think the free market might make more use of the free spectrum.

Toyota’s efforts to produce a car which can drive automatically on highways by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Source: safecarnews.com

The Olympics in Toyota’s backyard is a strong incentive to tell a powerful story to the world. The $1B should pay off in great brand exposure and leadership if they succeed.

Mr. Musk is the chairman and largest shareholder of both companies

Source: www.wsj.com

It must be hard to turn down a great offer from yourself. Solar powered cars for the masses.

The new SRAM is optimized for parallel processing of video data and will enable sophisticated video data processing such as obstacle recognition utilizing real-time processing of high-resolution vehicle camera videos and augmented reality (AR) display on the windshield

Source: safecarnews.com

Every part in the car needs to be re-engineered to meet safety needs of autonomous driving. You cannot just bolt on safety, it starts with the smallest details http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160616005128/en/Renesas-Electronics-Develops-Two-Port-On-Chip-SRAM-Specialized 

It’s clear that the hyperscale data center customers such as Alphabet’s Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) are very open to alternative architectures, and welcome competition with Intel

Source: seekingalpha.com

There are really only 3 big customer to win, and price will be a big factor. I doubt ThunderX2 will move the needle much toward ARM in the cloud, but it will hurt Intel’s margins.

The electric vehicle, which can carry up to 12 people, is equipped with some of the world’s most advanced vehicle technology, including IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive

Source: safecarnews.com

I’ll bet my colleague and friend, Joe Speed of IBM in Arizona has something to do with this project. Great work and promising for both IBM and LM.