Small- and medium-size display driver IC demand will likely rebound in the fourth quarter of 2022, while large-size DDI demand outlook remains gloomy, according to industry sources.

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.

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.