Chinese tech company Baidu announced on Dec 30 that it has received the license to test autonomous vehicles with no driver or safety operator onboard in Beijing – the first in the capital city of China.
LG Innotek announced that it will launch the first open booth at the 'Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023' and reveal new products related to electric components of electric vehicles and autonomous driving cars in mass.
The "future car" trend will be driven by functions like ADAS. To realize these functions, sensing technology, both for the interior and exterior of the vehicle, has continued to evolve. Currently, suppliers of III-V compound semiconductors and CMOS-based suppliers focusing on GeSi (germanium-silicon) are both actively releasing new automotive sensory products to compete for the market.
Semiconductor IDM Infineon said on Dec 14 that the transformation of automotive architecture from domains to zones will take at least a decade. The company also revealed it will unveil two new products at the CES show coming up in Las Vegas on Jan 5, 2023.
Multiple Chinese media reported on Dec 6 that the China-based AI startup Hefei HuiXi Intelligence has received investment from HanXing Venture Capital – a wholly-owned subsidiary by Xiaomi.
Baidu unveiled its latest progress on unifying L4 and L2+ autonomous driving technology on Apollo Day held on November 29 and announced that it will deliver L2+ driver-assisting product "ANP 3.0" in the summer of 2023.
Nio has disclosed that it has signed a strategic partnership with Tencent to co-develop autonomous driving technology and high-definition mapping services.
China-based Kunlun Xin (Kunlun Semionductor) said it is developing 3G and 4G chips with an open platform. The high-performance chips will be highly compatible with high-end autonomous driving applications.
According to Infineon, its next-generation Aurix microcontroller will use embedded non-volatile memory, specifically resistive random access memory (RRAM), instead of embedded flash (eFlash), and it will be manufactured on TSMC's 28nm node.
General Motors will proceed in China's automotive market with its latest plan. On November 22, the carmaker said it aims to launch over 15 models based on its Ultium platform by 2025. In addition, Buick, one of GM's brands, will soon introduce its first EV in China.
XPeng Motors, China's startup EV carmaker, received a permit from the province of Guangzhou on November 1, 2022, to test its autonomous driving G9 SUV on road, according to the carmaker.
Notebook supply chain players continue to carry on inventory correction amid lingering market headwinds, prompting Taiwan-based ODMs to step up deployments in non-notebook segments, particularly automotive electronics, to diversify their revenue sources, according to industry sources.
Canada-based startup Xanadu has raised US$100 million in Series C to build a fault-tolerant photonic quantum computer capable of reaching a million qubits, backed by Canada's largest equity firm Georgian and other venture capitals. With a total valuation of US$1 billion, the unicorn has raised US$250 million in total since its foundation in 2016. Most notably, automaker Porsche – a Volkswagen subsidiary - is among Xanadu's backers, marking another step taken by Volkswagen towards quantum computing research.
LiDAR technology has become critical to enabling self-driving. Australian deep-technology company Baraja develops solutions to miniaturize the sensor and bring down costs. Its technology has been acknowledged by the automotive industry and won a development agreement from a major OEM.
Helping a car make the right decision is fundamental to autonomous driving. Israel-based Arbe Robotics develops chipsets enabling imaging radars to gather environment data in high fidelity, allowing an autonomous vehicle (AV) to drive safely. Its advanced solutions have won partnerships for the company in Asia, the US and Europe.
