How Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki Is Overhauling the Company He Grew Up In - WSJ

kept by eddie aug 17

Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki is reshifting the conglomerate from hardware to entertainment by offloading TVs, partnering with TSMC on sensors, and leveraging film and music hits.

How Honda’s Pledge to Go All-Electric Unraveled
Honda's aggressive push to sell only electric vehicles by 2040 backfired when demand slowed, leading to its first-ever annual loss and internal calls for CEO Toshihiro Mibe to resign.
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PlayStation Architecture
The piece details the PlayStation's hardware architecture, including its MIPS R3000A CPU, custom chips, and the design trade-offs that shaped its distinctive 3D capabilities.
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Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla
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How long until AI doesn’t need humans? - Asterisk Magazine
Ajeya Cotra forecasts AI self-sufficiency within 10 years; Timothy B. Lee gives a 50-year median, debating robotics, tacit knowledge, and profit incentives.
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