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Intel Arc makes It to the Automotive market
Published in Transportation


A760A dGPU for AI-Driven Cockpit Experience

The automotive market has always been attractive to GPU industry players, and companies like Nvidia started addressing this market a long while ago. Intel is now ready to launch its discrete GPU tailored for the automotive industry. It will be known as Intel Arc Graphics for Automotive and plays a crucial part in Software-defined vehicle strategy.

Return of the smartphone
Published in News
Thursday, 02 May 2024 09:46

Return of the smartphone


Qualcomm results surprise Wall Street

Qualcomm has reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that exceeded the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street's expectations, accompanied by a robust forecast for the upcoming quarter.

Kioxia releases industry's first UFS Ver. 4.0 embedded flash memory devices
Published in News


For automotive applications

Kioxial Corporation has announced sampling of the industry's first Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Ver. 4.0 embedded flash memory devices designed for automotive applications. The new standard will bring higher performance which is needed for a variety of next-generation automotive applications.

AMD Powers Aisin Next-Generation Automated Parking Assist System
Published in Transportation


Aisin automated park assist in cars in 2024

With the finished acquisition of Xilinx, AMD got into a very interesting and unique automotive market. This well-oiled machine has been quite a successful growth factor for Xilinx. Back in 2006, the company had 5.4 million units shipped into the automotive market. Seven years later, the double-digit number of shipped units grew to 12.1 million.

Xilinx starts 8-megapixel automotive camera era
Published in Transportation


OMNIVISION Demonstrates Industry’s First 8-Megapixel LFM Image Sensor

If you ask Elon Mask, cameras are the most important sensor in order to get to the full self-driving. We believe that a combination of radar, camera, and lidar, if price permits, is the best way, but this is just us. In that light, Xilinx, in partnership with OMNIVISION has demonstrated the Industry’s First 8-Megapixel LFM Image sensor system for forward-looking automotive camera systems. In plain words, an 8-megapixel camera will make the car see much further, clearer, and get more detail, directly increasing the security of the vehicle and its passengers.

Qualcomm and SSW Partners reach definitive agreement to acquire Veoneer
Published in Transportation


Analysis: Superior value to Veoneer shareholders

Two months ago, Veoneer was still in talks with Magna to accept its acquisition offer of $31.25 per share in cash, however yesterday, Qualcomm and SSW Partners reached a definitive agreement to acquire Veoneer in an all-cash transaction valued at $37.00 per share.

Xilinx and Motovis Introduce Further Automotive Forward Camera Innovation
Published in Transportation


Complete Hardware and Software Solution

The forward-facing camera market is a growing market, and according to Strategy Analytics, it is poised to grow to a $2.4B market. Most new cars are equipped with a forward-facing camera that keeps the vehicle in lane, helps systems such as adaptive cruise control or low speed follow, detect cars, objects, pedestrians, and many more.

Xilinx announces Versal AI Edge ACAP
Published in AI
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:27

Xilinx announces Versal AI Edge ACAP


Smart vision, medical, automotive beats Nvidia

Xilinx is enjoying the multiple line of Versal ACAP adaptive compute acceleration platform roll out and adding an adaptive edge product certainly enlarges the leadership portfolio and adds some trouble for the competition, including Nvidia.

Apple’s car division losing managers
Published in Transportation
Thursday, 03 June 2021 12:18

Apple’s car division losing managers


Of course, they know the truth

Flying in the face of Tame Apple Press free publicity about Apple’s super new game-changing car vapourware, it seems that Apple’s transport division is haemorrhaging staff.

Qualcomm Nuvia has acquisition automotive angle
Published in Transportation


Analysis: General Motors, Renault, Bosh, Continental, and co.  

Automotive plays a vital role in the Nuvia deal. Nuvia has a data center chip that will tape out first, but what works in a data center can quickly be turned into an automotive chip. An Automotive/self-driving chip is nothing but a data center on wheels designed to be power-aware and process tremendous amounts of data from multiple sensors.