NEWS Intel buys Mobileye for $15bn Intel is to acquire Mobil - and suppliers. Together, The organisation will across Intel’s business eye for approximately we can accelerate the fu - support both companies’ groups and will report to $15bn. Mobileye devel - ture of autonomous driv - existing production pro - Shashua after the transac - ops computer vision and ing with improved grammes and build upon tion’s closing. machine learning, data performance in a cloud- relationships with auto - “We expect the growth The monthly magazine for automotive electronics engineers analysis, localisation and to-car solution at a lower motive OEMs, tier-one towards autonomous mapping for adas and cost for automakers.” suppliers and semicon - driving to be transforma - Issue 40 autonomous driving. The combined global ductor partners to develop tive,” said Ziv Aviram, Qualcomm will keep turns to the future of mar - April 2017 Intel hopes the combi - autonomous driving or - advanced driving assist, Mobileye co-founder. “It ket leader NXP. Having nation will position it as ganisation, which will highly autonomous and will provide safer, more NXP top of table merged with Freescale, IN THIS a leading technology consist of Mobileye and fully autonomous driving flexible and less costly thus creating the largest ISSUE provider in the fast-grow - Intel’s automated driving programmes. transportation options, Qualcomm’s takeover of electronics fourth and vendor of OE automotive ing market for highly and group, will be headquar - Intel senior vice presi - and provide incremental NXP will keep the Dutch Texas Instruments fifth. semiconductors, NXP has Page 2: Intel buys fully autonomous vehi - tered in Israel and led by dent Doug Davis will business model opportu - company as the top semi - Following the acquisition divested its standard Mobileye for $15bn cles. Intel estimates the Amnon Shashua, Mobil - oversee the combined or - nities for our automaker conductor supplier to the of Atmel, Microchip is a products division into vehicle systems, data and eye’s co-founder. ganisation’s engagement customers.” automotive industry, ac - new entry into the top ten. Nexperia. With total 2016 Page 3: TPMS services market opportu - cording to Semicast. Semicast estimates that sales of about US$1.2bn defects triple nity to be up to $70bn by VW leaps into quantum computing This is despite NXP revenues for OE automo - and product lines includ - 2030. divesting its standard tive semiconductors to - ing discretes, logic and Volkswagen Group Page 6: Bosch and This acquisition will products division into a talled US$30bn in 2016. mosfets, Semicast judges claims to be the world’s NVidia cooperate combine technologies stand-alone company Robert Bosch was the automotive to be Nexpe - from both companies, first car maker to use called Nexperia. only other vendor with an ria’s largest market and quantum computers. It Page 10: Microsoft spanning connectivity, “Semicast judges the estimated market share of the divestiture closed is cooperating with D- and Toyota deal computer vision, data net effect of these two five per cent or more in February 2017. Secondly, centre, sensor fusion, Wave Systems on a transactions would be to this sector in 2016. it was announced in Octo - research project for Page 11: Embedded high-performance com - create a combined Qual - With few changes in the ber that Qualcomm is to traffic flow optimisation. World report puting, localisation, map - comm and NXP placed at vendor share ranking in acquire NXP, in a deal ping, machine learning IT experts from the the head of the automo - 2016 over 2015, attention valued at US$47bn. and artificial intelligence. Volkswagen labs in San Page 21: Motor Francisco and Munich tive vendor share rank - 2016 OE automotive semiconductor “This acquisition is a control to reduce have been the first to ings, with a market share vendor share rankings great step forward for our emissions develop a smart mobility of about 13% in 2016 and 2016 2015 shareholders, the automo - programme on the D- comfortably clear of Infi - NXP (inc. Nexperia) 14.0% (13.6%) tive industry and con - Page 25: Motorbike Wave quantum com - neon,” said Colin Barn - Infineon Technologies 10.7% (9.9%) sumers,” said Brian simulation puter using data from den, principal analyst at Renesas Electronics 9.6% (9.3%) Krzanich, Intel CEO. 10,000 taxis in Beijing. Semicast Research. ST Microelectronics 7.6% (7.3%) “Intel provides critical Page 27: Vision for The picture shows the According to the latest Texas Instruments 6.9% (6.4%) foundational technologies agriculture dilution refrigerator and analysis, NXP maintained Robert Bosch 5.9% (5.0%) for autonomous driving quantum processing unit in its holder inside the D Wave 2000Q system. its position as the leading On Semiconductor 4.4% (4.0%) including plotting the Page 31: PCB At last month’s Cebit in Hanover, the two companies announced their vendor of semiconductors Microchip (inc. Atmel) 2.9% (3.0%) car’s path and making rework in vehicles cooperation and demonstrated software that optimises traffic flow on a to the OE automotive sec - Toshiba 2.6% (2.6%) real-time driving deci - quantum computer. tor in 2016, ahead of Infi - Rohm Semiconductor 2.5% (2.3%) sions. Mobileye brings Page 35: Product Quantum computers can solve highly complex problems many times neon. Renesas held its Top ten total 67.1% (63.4%) the industry’s best auto - news faster than conventional supercomputers. They have been used primarily position as third largest Others 32.9% (36.6%) motive-grade computer vendor, with ST Micro - by scientific institutes, government agencies and in the aerospace sector. Page 40: Contact vision and strong mo - details mentum with automakers vehicle-electronics.biz Vehicle Electronics April 2017, Page 2 NEWS NEWS TPMS defects more than triple in 2016 Trimble and Caterpillar bring Defects in tyre pressure safety making it easy for monitoring systems the driver to know if their telematics to construction (TPMS) are causing an pressures aren’t at the increasing number of UK right level when out on Trimble and Caterpillar cludes VisionLink fleet, entire lorry fleet and driver safety as well as vehicles to fail the MoT the road,” said Stuart are partnering to bring asset and site productivity equipment assets in a sin - hours of service and vehi - test. According to the Jackson, chairman of UK on-highway telematics to management for con - gle view using Vision - cle inspections to comply Driver & Vehicle Stan - charity TyreSafe. construction operations. struction operations. Link to gain insight into with Federal Motor Car - dards Agency, more than “But, clearly, even The collaboration extends Developed by Virtual their overall operations. rier Safety Administration 23,000 vehicles required though Britain’s motorists Caterpillar’s Cat Connect Site, a Trimble Caterpillar “By working in tandem requirements for elec - a retest following identi - are being warned there’s products to include Trim - joint venture, VisionLink with Trimble, we’re giv - tronic logging devices. fication of TPMS issues a safety issue they’re ble’s real-time, lorry fleet provides a centralised, ing our customers the “By visualising how a in 2016 compared with a choosing to ignore it,” visibility and monitoring collective view of all ability to connect, visu - complete off-highway little over 7000 in 2015, a TPMS warning light he said. capabilities to enable on- machines and their contri - alise and monitor their and on-highway fleet are rise of 212 per cent. “Regrettably, this leap highway and off-highway bution to overall prod- entire operations, whether being used, there are op - TPMS became manda - with tyre pressures signif - equipped with a TPMS in MoT failures due to fleet management. uctivity across an organi - it’s Caterpillar or a mixed portunities to maximise tory on all new passenger icantly below the recom - by the manufacturer must TPMS defects underlines The field-proven on- sation and jobsites for fleet,” said John Carpen - efficiency in more aspects vehicles sold in the UK mended settings. have a functioning system that a poor attitude to tyre highway services from Caterpillar equipment and ter from Caterpillar. of their operations,” said from November 2014 to As of January 2015, all to pass the MoT. safety is not an issue ex - Trimble will be part of the mixed fleets. Applications include John Cameron, general help reduce the number of vehicles first used from “TPMS adds signifi - clusively associated with Cat Connect telematics This will let construc - fuel management, vehicle manager of field service vehicles being driven January 2012 and cantly to general tyre older vehicles.” portfolio, which also in - tion companies see their health and diagnostics, management at Trimble. ZF and Astyx join to develop radar Ethernet specs ZF has acquired 45 per ideally complements our were integrated into ZF The Open Alliance Sig cent of Astyx to combine other radar solutions after the company’s pur - has released specifica - development on radar for utilised for driver assis - chase in May 2015. tions that define require - object detection, accident tance functions such as “We’re very much look - ments for Ethernet switch prevention and auto- distance control. ing forward to cooperat - semiconductors and de - nomous driving. “The fusion of radar, ing with ZF,” said Astyx scribe requirements for Astyx was founded in lidar and camera sensors CEO Günther Trummer. implementation of an Ottobrunn near Munich can deliver environmental “We now have a very ECU and network test. in 1997 and develops and detection functionality strong partner which sys - The non-profit alliance produces high-frequency essential for advanced tematically shapes the was established to drive radar sensors and mod - safety and autonomous megatrends of safety and wide scale adoption of ules for automotive and driving.” autonomous driving. Ethernet-based automo - other industries.