Continental and Ambarella Partner to Develop Software-Hardware Self Driving Level 2 Plus

Kontinental and Ambarella announced a partnership to create software and hardware systems for autonomous driving. (photo: @Ambarella_Inc)

JAKARTA – German automotive company Continental and California-based artificial intelligence chip company Ambarella announced a partnership on Thursday, January 5 to create software and hardware systems for autonomous driving.

#CES2023: #Ambarella & @Conti_Press announced a strategic partnership as they jointly develop scalable, end-to-end hardware & software solutions based on artificial intelligence (#AI), for assisted and automated driving (AD). https://t.co/3gQPHCiFHg#Automotive #Autonomous pic.twitter.com/Z6rXMi222a

— Ambarella Inc. (@Ambarella_Inc) January 5, 2023

Both companies will focus on what it calls Level 2 plus autonomous driving, which briefly lets drivers take their hands off the wheel via features like assisted cruise control and lane centering.

Ambarella developed a new category of semiconductors called systems on a chip, or SoC, which combine multiple CPUs on a single logic board and provide artificial intelligence processing.

In a statement quoted by Reuters, the two companies jointly developed the technology, which will consist of a high-resolution camera and a lidar radar and sensor with the requisite software from Continental.

The German car supplier also holds a minority stake in another California-based company, lidar startup AEye, and has integrated a long-range lidar sensor based on AEye's patent to complement the auto supplier's existing short-range lidar technology.