Nvidia has released its financial results for fiscal second-quarter 2023 (ended July 31 2022), with revenue increasing 3% from the same period a year ago to US$6.7 billion. Gross margin for the quarter dropped sharply to 43.5% from the previous quarter’s 65.5%, an obvious result of the impact from macroeconomic headwinds.

Data is the foundation of autonomous driving. Nexar, an AI computer vision company, analyzes street information through a network supported by its dash cams. Integrating real-time data with human driving behaviors, the Israel-based company aims for a solution that would upgrade self-driving cars’ training.

The US government has started to expand the ban on semiconductor equipment exports to China to include equipment under 14nm processing nodes and memory manufacturing tools in August, and required Chips Act subsidy recipients not to expand 25nm and below nodes process capacities in China. It is the US government’s effort to direct companies to produce in America. In the process, the decoupling of technologies between the two superpowers may have been accelerated.