A few of the world's top electronics industry leaders made important announcements during the past several days. In this week's Electronics News Byte, we highlight NVIDIA’s new partnership with Mercedes on software-defined vehicles, Apple's plans to shift Mac from Intel to Arm architecture, global wafer capacity nubers, and new features for Arduino’s command line interface (CLI). 
 

NVIDIA-Mercedes to Partner on Software-Defined Vehicles

Last week, the NVIDIA and Mercedes announced a strategic partnership to work on autonomous driving functions and next-generation driving assistance systems. "The new software-defined architecture will be built on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform and will be standard in Mercedes-Benz’s next-generation fleet, enabling state-of-the-art automated driving functionalities" NVIDIA announced. The partnership will likely spur innovation and competition among tech companies and automakers in the coming months.     

Apple Transitioning Macs to Apple Silicon

Apple announced last week that it intends to transition the Mac to Apple Silicon. This means the company is shifting from Intel to an Arm architecture. Developers have begun receiving Arm-based Developer Transition Kits, and details are already appearing on tech news sites.  

Taiwan Leads in Wafer Capacity

IC Insights is reporting thatTaiwan currently leads the world in wafer capacity (21.6%). After Taiwan is South Korea, Japan, China, North America, and then "China is expected to gain the most percentage points of capacity share over the 2019 to 2024 timeframe," the firm reports. Capacity in North America and Europe is expected to decline.

New arduino-cli Features

Interested in Arduino? Last week, Arduino announced new features for the Arduino command line interface (CLI). The arduino-cli tool's features include: command-line completion: automatically fill in commands; external programmer support; and internationalization and localization support (i18n). 

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