Chip hidden connections crash your calls, cars and care

The invisible “intermediate” links continue to sabotage modern technology. Special chipmakers are now struggling to secure signals and restore reliability

Any modern action, from pressing a phone in the direction of a car, is based on semiconductor muscles. However, our video calls are still freezing, cloudy medical images, driver warnings and daily functions fail very often. What breaks consistently is not the title computer, it is the fragile layer between the first signals from the sensor to the processor and the board.

“It is often not your internet. It could be your USB cable to overflow with its bandwidth. Valens semiconductor Managing Director Gideon Ben Zvi. “While we continue to blame the network, the real error is often found in a few inches of copper away.”

Industry -in the whole industry, only a minority of about 600 US chip companies maintain special groups -integrated groups. Most hunting clock speeds and processing nodes instead, and this leaves huge functional functionality.

Valens Semiconductor, public for the NYSE from the SPAC merger of $ 1.1 billion in 2021, is specifically focused on these layers of “between”, building chips that hold video, control, data and power signals clean and synchronized in interference cables, medical and interval. “The fragility” against “violates critical areas. In a US hospital network, intermittent low -resolution introspection feeds undermined confidence in minimally invasive procedures until the system migrates into a disposable architecture. “The transition to a disposable-to-end-way architecture with our chipset will eliminate 98% feed errors, giving doctors the real-time clarity they need to save lives.” The same approach appears elsewhere. For video calls, camera videos, audio, control, USB (and often power) collapses on a single long -term, interference cable, so that the 4K image can be truly intact. Vehicles move Adas multiple sensor data to durable connections that remove EMI explosions before these errors can be silently corroded perception.

Valens is not alone. More suppliers are targeting the ‘against’ mattress. Texas“The active EMI ICS filter introduces opposite phase currents to reduce the common and noise of the common way, helping designers to shrink traditional filtering components. SamtekTwinax Flyover® bands lift the high -speed strips from Lossy PCB traces to extend range while maintaining the margin of signal. Spectrum 7 It incorporates the balancing of the analog in extremely thin VR/AR cables so that the high -resolution video, low in relation to lightweight, more flexible. Alphabet Provides high speed Serdes IP coordinated for larger, noisy channels, helping composite Socs meet the goals of errors and latent status without excessive complexity of the boat. Different markets, the same routes.

As the performance plateaus of basic products in perceived benefits, reliability and integrity of users to the “intermediaries” they become more intense differentiated. “We do not hunt headlines, we solve the problems that occur in real world systems,” says Ben Zvi, and this attitude depicts a broader strategic shift. Determination of ‘in -between’ will not make a report, but it is what maintains sharp surgeries, cars safer, running factories, cooperation fluid and without it, every layer of modern life remains vulnerable to silent failure.