Porsche signs up for Intel’s Mobileeye sensors
SuperVision enables a range of advanced driver-assistance systems
Intel spin-off Mobile appears to be doing well – Posche has signed up for its advanced sensor suite.
Samsung and Ambarella put AI in your car
This will end well
Samsung has announced that it is teaming up with Ambarella to bring new levels of artificial intelligence (AI) processing to its next-gen autonomous driving vehicle safety systems.
Qualcomm and SSW Partners reach definitive agreement to acquire Veoneer
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 is number two in car cameras
Make driving safe again
Computers made it to cars a long time ago. Assisted driving that most people know from Tesla, started with premium brands like Mercedes, BMW and Audi in 2016 and brands like Honda even got it to the masses in 20.000 Euro/USD cars. These cars must have front cameras, and Xilinx is clearly number two there
Porsche gets 10 percent of Rimac
High voltage battery and power trains
Porsche AG officially announced that it acquired 10 percent of Rimac automobile for an undisclosed sum.
Safety is why Intel acquired MobileEye
27 million car market share helped too
A year ago, Intel acquired Mobile Eye for $15.3 billion and Intel's CEO has expained why it happened. Safety is in the company’s mind, but Brian Krzanich was honest enough to recognize that Mobile Eye solves a large gap that Intel had before the acquisition.
Software failed in Uber pedestrian fatality
NTSB confirms
The USA National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a preliminary report about the first Uber pedestrian fatality. In short, the sensors worked and the software failed.
Wozniak goes after Tesla self driving ambiguities
We are developers 2018: Don't trust Elon Musk
Last week at the We are developers 2018 Vienna conference, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had the chance to address 4,000 attendee’s life and almost all of the 8,000 attendees were watching the keynote via a video link overflow. What caught our eye was that Wozniak has a lot of disagreements with Musk.
Rimac confirms no mainstream car
At the Vienna We Are developers 2018 conference
Mate Rimac, the CEO of the new 400 people Rimac automobiles company, confirmed at the "Vienna We are" developers' conference that you should not expect a mainstream car from the company anytime soon.
Nvidia announces Mercedes self-driving deal
Gets Audi too
Who would have thought that people who are covering computer graphics would start writing about the automotive industry. Each car of the future is going to get a self-driving ADAS system, powered by a SoC that is wrapped around a strong CPU and GPU. Nvidia announced at CES 2017 that it just scored both Mercedes and Audi automotive deals.