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This week we’ve got a dispatch from Monte Carlo about the recent Grand Prix ELECTRIC vehicle race. Also, a separate report on what’s going on with chips for Autonomous Vehicles. And we’ve been talking about the trade war with China from the US point of view – this week, our correspondent in China discusses how China’s high-tech industry thinks about the conflict.

Today is Friday, May 24th, and this is your EE Times Weekly Briefing. The biggest story in electronics this week affects almost everyone in the high-tech industry – from Huawei to Google to Infineon – to chip companies, circuit board suppliers – essentially the entire supply chain. The Trump Administration this week took steps that will certainly isolate Huawei and possibly cripple it. What was once delicately framed as a “trade tension” between the two nations has officially turned into an all-out-trade war, affecting not just the electronics industry, but nearly every other commercial segment around the world – from farming to aeronautics. This past week EE Times launched a Special Project that zeroed in on damage done during the trade conflict already. We have been reporting on all aspects of the fast-evolving situation – seen, reported and analyzed through the lenses of our reporters scattered all over the world. Accordingly, we are dedicating this week’s entire show to dissecting the outbreak of U.S.-Chi

This is your EE Times Weekly Briefing. Today is Friday, May 17th, and among the top stories this week: A sobering roadmap of semiconductor process technology-- potentially coming to a halt at 2 nanometers We were at the Electronic Distribution Show in Vegas last week. On the last day, the news broke that the United States had escalated a trade war with China. How will that affect the supply chain? New advanced imaging tools that could help restore Notre Dame in Paris, but a big question remains: Can anyone else afford them? Later in the show, we’re joined by two graphics technology experts, Jon Peddie and Kathleen Maher. We asked them to imagine the restoration of Notre Dame.

This is your EE Times Weekly Briefing. Today is Friday, May 10th, and among the top stories this week: Google I/O, Google's developers’ conference. CEO Sundar Pichai touted Google’s awakening to privacy for its users’ data. This week, EE Times launched a new Special Project package on Artificial Intelligence, with a particular focus on AI fairness. We ask and answer the question: “Will Machines Ever Learn to Be Fair?” Later on, we’re joined by Junko Yoshida, EE Times’ chief international correspondent, and EE Times executive editor Dylan McGrath. The two editors moderated panels at VerveCon in sunny Santa Clara. They share their observations at this unusual tech conference, where the main auditorium was filled not by male but female engineers.

This is your EETimes Weekly Briefing. Today is Friday, May 3rd, and among our top stories this week: A one-on-one interview with Hassane El-Khoury, CEO of Cypress Semiconductors.We’ll review the intelligence we picked up at the recent 5G Brooklyn Summit on the question: “If 5G is enough, do we need 6G?" And we’ll explain why Taiwanese companies who moved manufacturing in China decades ago are now coming back to Taiwan. Junko Yoshida, EE Times chief international correspondent, tells us the reason might not be what you’re thinking. This exodus is less about Trump but more about Xi Jinping. Later on, we’re joined by Judith Chen, Chief Editor responsible for EE Times & EDN in Taiwan and Asia. Judith outlines how and why a startup movement appears to be blossoming in Taiwan.

This is your EE Times Weekly Briefing. Today is Friday, April 26th, and among the top stories this week: ON Semi buys Globalfoundries’ ex IBM fab; TSMC’s CMOS process node shrinks, and Tesla’s Kitchen Sink Approach to autonomous vehicles. Later in the show, Echo Zhao will be here to discuss the 2019 China fabless survey results. And, at the bottom of the show, Bolaji Ojo, will join us to discuss what prompted him to start at EETimes a revealing new column, “My 35 years of journalism.”

This is your EETimes Weekly Briefing. Today is Friday, April 19th, and among the top stories this week: Samsung is moving toward a 5-nanometer foundry process; Underwriters Lab is collaborating with Edge Case Research to draft a standard for autonomous systems. And we take a peek into Finland’s "Radio Valley" to learn about “Life after Nokia.”

Today is Friday, April 12th, and among the top stories this week - Qualcomm’s new data-center AI inference accelerator chip, the latest deep learning developments unveiled at a Stanford University gathering, and a new development that throws a monkey wrench into the debate about V2X – vehicle to everything -- in Europe.

Among the top stories this week: Intel’s new memory architecture; an exclusive interview with Greg Travis – a veteran software engineer and instrument-rated pilot. We ask him if Boeing 737 Max MCAS software can be fixed. We also look at STMicroelectronics’ strategic priority on silicon carbide; and how the risk-averse business mentality is making Japan’s car OEMs slow to embrace the global auto market’s shifting focus on mobility services.

This week’s top stories include Nvidia’s annual GPU Technology Conference, the U.S. Exascale supercomputer deal, and the latest jury verdict on the Qualcomm v. Apple patent infringement case.

Weekly Briefing March 15, 2019: Nvidia buys Mellanox, Facebook snatches up Sonics, Linus Foundation holds its first Open Source Leaders’ Summit, Geneva auto show

This is your EETimes Weekly Briefing. Today is Friday, March 8th, and these are the top stories this week. Dylan McGrath was in San Francisco this week to cover RSA Conference. Here’s Dylan summary of why cryptographers see dangers in Australia's controversial Access Assistance Bill.

This is your EETimes Weekly Briefing. Today is Friday, March 1st, and these are the week's top stories. It's been a busy week with two major shows unfolding at the same time: Embedded World in Nuremberg, and the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

This is your EETimes Weekly Briefing. Today is Friday, February 22nd, and these are the week's top stories.

This is your EETimes weekly briefing and these are the top stories from the week of February 18th.

This is your EETimes weekly briefing. Today is Friday, February 8th, and these are the week’s top stories.

Weekly briefing with Rick Merritt, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, EE Times

Weekly briefing with Dylan McGrath, editor-in-chief of EETimes.

This week we review all the things that stole our attention at CES 2019 and the major headlines buzzing within electronics field immediately after and during the event. We speak with Brian Santo, EDN, Editor-in-chief, and Junko Yoshida, EETimes' Global co-Editor-in-Chief.

EETimes On Air host David Finch speaks with Clara Otero Perez, Director of System Innovations for NXP.