More Sophisticated! These Three Giant Car Manufacturers Intend To Adopt Qualcomm Chips

Qualcomm will provide hardware and software for Volvo, Honda and Renault's future cars. (photo: Doc. Qualcomm)

JAKARTA - Chipmaker Qualcomm announced plans to provide hardware and software for future cars Volvo, Honda and Renault.

Revealed at IoT CES 2022, in addition to the three giant car manufacturers, BMW is also eyeing BMW for chips in its autonomous cars, as well as a series of infotainment tools.

Those tools, dubbed Qualcomm Digital Chassis, include Snapdragon Ride, Snapdragon Cockpit, Snapdragon Auto Connectivity, and Snapdragon Car-to-Cloud Services.

Each covers a different area of technology, be it driving assistance or multimedia and partnering car brands can choose to implement all of these features or choose one of them.

Take, for example, Volvo, which will implement the Qualcomm Snapdragon Cockpit, where the software aims to power multiple screens and immersive audio systems in its upcoming fleet of electric cars, including those under the Polestar banner. .

Honda will also leverage Qualcomm's advanced infotainment technology in cars coming to the US in the second half of 2022, and globally in early 2023. Upcoming models will benefit from improved AI experiences and in-cab capabilities such as blind spot reduction aids. , assisted braking notifications, and signals to approach emergency vehicles.

Renault, meanwhile, will work with Qualcomm to promote a more inclusive adoption of all the tools available as part of the Snapdragon Digital Chassis.

Implementations of Snapdragon Auto Connectivity, for example on upcoming Renault models, are likely to feature market-leading LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi and GPS systems.

Apart from automakers, tech giant Google is also partnering with Qualcomm to supply the key computing chips for the next-generation digital dashboard of the Renault Megane E-TECH, with the Renault 5 EV in development likely to benefit from this partnership as well.

Perhaps the most interesting tool in the Qualcomm Digital Chassis is the Snapdragon Ride system. After Qualcomm bought automotive technology company Veoneer for $4.5 billion last year, the Snapdragon Ride family now includes a new chip for computer vision.

According to the company, the chip is capable of utilizing car cameras to enhance safety features such as automatic lane control. Car manufacturers using this specialized tool will also benefit from increased map resources, driver monitoring systems (DMS), parking systems, and mobile vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology.