Automotive
At this year’s virtual CES 2021, Ambarella is launching its new flagship vision SoC – the CV5. Dubbed as a 8K AI vision processor, the new SoC addresses Ambarella’s more traditional core market which includes sports cameras, drones, and the increasing important automotive business of the company. If you’ve had a GoPro or a DJI drone in the past decade, the chances are high these devices were powered by an Ambarella SoC – although many of these companies nowadays also rely on in-house silicon. The new CV5 is a major leap for the company as it represents the most powerful iteration of the company’s in-house ISP, featuring capabilities such as 8K60 video recording or four independent 4K video streams, includes new powerful AI capabilities, new...
Western Digital at FMS 2020: Zoned SSDs, Automotive NVMe And More
At Flash Memory Summit this week (online for the first time), Western Digital is showing off three new SSD products and have outlined the company's areas of strategic focus...
12 by Billy Tallis on 11/11/2020Arm Announces Cortex-A78AE, Mali-G78AE and Mali-C71AE Autonomous System IPs
Functional safety is an area of computing that is becoming ever more important as we see more and more embedded technologies integrated into our daily lives. Arm’s Automotive Enhanced...
14 by Andrei Frumusanu on 9/29/2020Nvidia Announces New Drive Platforms With Orin and Ampere
Nvidia’s Orin SoC chipset had been on Nvidia’s roadmaps for over 2 years now, and last December we got the first new details of the new automotive oriented silicon...
37 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/14/2020CEVA Announces SensPro - New High Performance Sensor Hub IP
As devices become ever more interconnected and increase their capabilities to sense the world through different kind of sensors, there’s an ever more increasing stream of data that is...
11 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/7/2020CES 2020: Ambarella Showcases CV2, CV22 and CV25 Demos
Amongst the many showcases at CES 2020 was Ambarella’s newest demo line-up showcasing various solutions using the CV2, CV22 and also demonstrating new platforms based on the newly announced...
13 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/16/2020NVIDIA Details DRIVE AGX Orin: A Herculean Arm Automotive SoC For 2022
While NVIDIA’s SoC efforts haven’t gone entirely to plan since the company first started on them over a decade ago, NVIDIA has been able to find a niche that...
32 by Ryan Smith on 12/18/2019Kioxia Expands Automotive Grade eUFS Lineup: 512 GB for Extreme Conditions
Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory), has expanded its lineup of embedded UFS (eUFS) storage with a 512 GB device based on the company’s BiCS 3D NAND flash. The chip is...
3 by Anton Shilov on 11/15/2019Samsung & TSMC Develop 8nm & 7nm Automotive-Grade Nodes
As vehicles are getting ‘smarter’ and gaining autopilot capabilities, it is easy to predict that the demand for higher-performing and more complex automotive SoCs will be growing rapidly in...
29 by Anton Shilov on 10/14/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Tesla Solution for Full Self Driving
The first talk being live blogged at Hot Chips today is from Tesla, who are showing off their compute and redundancy solution for a fully-self driving car. We assume...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Marvell to Acquire Aquantia, Eying Automotive Networking Market
Marvell on Monday announced that it had reached an agreement to buy the networking specialist firm Aquantia for $452 million. The acquisition will allow Marvell to significantly augment their...
21 by Anton Shilov on 5/6/2019BlackBerry Acquires Cylance, Gets AI & ML Security Technology
BlackBerry Limited has announced that it had completed acquisition of Cylance, a company developing machine learning and artificial intelligence-based security technology. The move adds valuable IP and technologies to...
18 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019GlobalFoundries and Synopsys Develop Automotive-Grade IP for 22FDX Process Tech
GloalFoundries and Synopsys announced this week that they have jointly developed a portfolio of automotive-gade IP solutions for GF’s 22FDX process technology. The various IP blocks are designed for...
4 by Anton Shilov on 2/22/2019Investigating NVIDIA's Jetson AGX: A Look at Xavier and Its Carmel Cores
Today’s piece is a bit of an unusual review; NVIDIA’s new Jetson AGX embedded system kit isn’t really a device platform we’re expecting the average reader to think about...
51 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/4/2019Samsung’s Intros Exynos Auto V9 SoC: Octa-A76 Chip to Power Audi’s In-Vehicle Infotainment System
Samsung today rolled out its new Exynos Auto V9 SoC, announcing that the automotive-focused SoC will power Audi’s in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system that will debut by 2021. Samsung’s first...
17 by Anton Shilov on 1/3/2019Arm Announces Cortex-A65AE for Automotive: First SMT CPU Core
Back in September, Arm had announced the new Cortex A76AE CPU with focus on automotive applications. Today, Arm adds to its portfolio by formally announcing a next gen processor...
8 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/18/2018Imagination Launches PowerVR Automotive Initiative, 8XT-A GPU IP
The automotive industry is changing rapidly these days thanks to the influx of computing poweer, and it will continue to consume considerably more CPU and GPU horsepower in the...
2 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018Arm Unveils Arm Safety Ready Initiative, Cortex-A76AE Processor
The market of automobiles is changing. Modern cars use more electronics than ever and adoption of electronic components in general and processors in particular is not going to slow...
27 by Anton Shilov on 9/26/2018Hot Chips 2018: NVIDIA Xavier SoC Live Blog (5pm PT, Midnight UTC)
NVIDIA has a couple of talks during Hot Chips, with this first one going into the Xavier SoC.
5 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2018Solving the Automotive Bandwidth Problem: Aquantia Partners with NVIDIA for 10GbE
One of the lesser known topics around fully autonomous vehicles is one of transporting data around. There are usually two options: transport raw image and sensor data with super...
25 by Ian Cutress on 1/29/2018