Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Dr. William Keating is a highly experienced senior executive with over 25 years experience in the IT/Semiconductor Industry. The majority of Dr. Keating's career was spent at Intel Corporation where he held senior leadership positions in Europe, the US and Asia from 1992 through 2014. He served as Intel's IT Director for APAC, China & Japan from 2005 through 2014 when he was based in Hong Kong and was responsible for the IT systems (Infrastructure, Networks, Data Centres, ERP, Sales & Marketing systems, Business Intelligence etc. ) for all of Intel's offices & factories through the region. From 1998 through 2005, he was the founder & director of an internal IT Consulting Organisation (IT Flex Services), a 500-person team which remains a core part of the Intel IT Organisation to this day. Dr. Keating's first 6 years at Intel were spent in charge of the Factory Automation Systems (Robotics, Databases, Networks, Servers, Clients etc.) supporting Intel's then state-of-the-art 200mm factory network. Since leaving Intel in 2014, Dr Keating established his own Technology Research & Consulting Company (www.ingenuity.hk) where he focuses on the products, roadmaps & technologies of companies such as Intel, AMD, Samsung, Apple, Micron- as well as the key equipment suppliers to those companies e.g. ASML, AMAT, Canon, Nikon etc. Dr. Keating specializes in niche topics of high significance within the semiconductor industry. These include the future of Moore's Law and in particular the significance of Lithography in maintaining Moore's Law (EUV, SDA, NanoImprint), the role & growth of the GPU in specialised applications such as Deep Learning (Neural Networks) for Voice, Image & Pattern recognition at companies such as Facebook, Google & Baidu. He also holds regular discussions on the future of memory, in particular the rise of 3D NAND and the emergence of new memory technologies such as 3D Xpoint.

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Autonomous Driving- Intel's Mega-Billions Gamble

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Colombia Semiconductors and semiconductor equipment / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>On Sunday, March 18, 2018, an <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/430" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:430:1">Uber</a> self-driving test vehicle, based on a modified 2017 Volvo XC90, struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. This was the first recorded pedestrian fatality caused by a vehicle under autonomous control. The dashcam video of the fatal accident went viral and both the NTSB and NHTSA quickly launched separate investigations. Uber responded by immediately halting all of its autonomous testing activities just prior to having such privileges revoked by Arizona governor Doug Ducey in a harshly worded letter sent directly to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Now the long-awaited preliminary <a href="https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HWY18MH010-prelim.pdf" target="_blank">investigation</a> by the NTSB has been released, and its findings make for interesting reading.</p><p>Although not highlighted as a specific conclusion in the report, the inescapable reality is that the vehicle's standard ADAS systems, which were disabled at the time of the accident, would likely have prevented it from happening in the first place or, at the very least, mitigated its consequences. By disabling the standard ADAS systems an replacing it with clearly inferior and poorly designed technology, Uber's credibility as a self-driving technology leader has been shattered. In advance of the release of the preliminary NTSB report, Uber <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/23/uber-ends-self-driving-car-operation-in-arizona.html" target="_blank">announced</a> that it was canceling its self-driving program in Arizona forthwith. We strongly suspect that the future of its entire program hangs in the balance and we anticipate that the company will take a page out of competitor Lyft's book by switching to a partnership model where others develop the technology and Uber focuses on what it does best.</p>

On Sunday, March 18, 2018, an Uber self-driving test vehicle, based on a modified 2017 Volvo XC90, struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. This was the first recorded pedestrian fatality caused by a vehicle under autonomous control. The dashcam video of the fatal accident went viral and both the NTSB and NHTSA quickly launched separate investigations. Uber responded by immediately halting all of its autonomous testing activities just prior to having such privileges revoked by Arizona governor Doug Ducey in a harshly worded letter sent directly to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. Now the long-awaited preliminary investigation by the NTSB has been released, and its findings make for interesting reading.Although not highlighted as a specific conclusion in the report, the inescapable reality is that the vehicle's standard ADAS systems, which were disabled at the time of the accident, would likely have prevented it from happening in the first place or, at the very least, mitigated its consequences. By disabling the standard ADAS systems an replacing it with clearly inferior and poorly designed technology, Uber's credibility as a self-driving technology leader has been shattered. In advance of the release of the preliminary NTSB report, Uber announced that it was canceling its self-driving program in Arizona forthwith. We strongly suspect that the future of its entire program hangs in the balance and we anticipate that the company will take a page out of competitor Lyft's book by switching to a partnership model where others develop the technology and Uber focuses on what it does best.

Autonomous Driving- NTSB Premlinary Report On Fatal Uber Accident Released