With a myriad applications in aerial surveying, plus the tantalizing prospect of driverless vehicles, China is competing in the race for LiDAR dominance

Grand international cross-border plans are the order of the day as China forges ahead with its Belt and Road Initiative.

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is now seen as a key enabling technology for autonomous vehicles and also for the enhanced driver safety features collectively known as ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems).

China’s high-stakes plan for self-transformation into a high-tech superpower is encapsulated in its “Made in China 2025” initiative.

While slow to penetrate the mass TV market, OLEDs are finally seeing major take-up in smartphones.

For at least half a century of spectacular advance in semiconductor technology, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore has provided the chip industry with its fundamental productivity benchmark. Year 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of “Moore’s Law”, precisely at a time when many in the semiconductor industry suspected the law was ‘dead,’ or shortly would be.

Strong growth drivers abound, say industry observers, and ASPs are on the rise

The huge popularity of hyper-mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, is giving a major boost to online advertising revenues, now that users are increasingly going online via mobile, rather than on desktop PCs – a platform that is symptomatically in decline.

It’s tempting to think smartwatches could borrow a term from current cellular telecoms – Long-Term Evolution (LTE). In terms of both solutions and applications, it’s a product category that is still basically undefined.