Qualcomm Unveiled This Advanced Chip for Automobiles at CES 2023

Cell chip maker Qualcomm on Wednesday unveiled a processor chip for the automobile referred to as Snapdragon Experience Flex SoC that handles each assisted driving and cockpit capabilities, together with leisure.

Beforehand these capabilities have been dealt with on completely different chips and merging them may help carry down prices, stated Nakul Duggal, Qualcomm’s head of automotive.

“Clearly you’re lowering the variety of bodily bins. So, it goes right down to a single field. You cut back the quantity of reminiscence that you just want. The additional exterior elements that you just want, these go down,” Duggal informed Reuters.

Qualcomm has been steadily build up its automotive enterprise lately and in September it stated its automotive enterprise “pipeline” elevated to $30 billion (roughly Rs. 2.5 lakh crore).

With electrical autos and growing autonomous options in vehicles, the variety of chips utilized by automakers is surging and the automotive market has been a key progress space for chipmakers.

Duggal stated automotive prospects are already making an attempt out the brand new chip and it will be commercially accessible within the first half of subsequent 12 months.

Final month, Qualcomm announced its next-generation Wi-Fi 7 Immersive Residence Platform which is designed and optimised for residence mesh Wi-Fi networking techniques, in accordance with the corporate. The platform consists of two new processors that utilise 5GHz and 6GHz frequency bands whereas supporting 240MHz and 320MHz channels, respectively.

The corporate’s Wi-Fi 7 Immersive Residence Platform know-how is constructed primarily based on modular chipset structure which delivers over 20GBps of complete system capability. Qualcomm claims that the processor know-how has been engineered to allow collaboration, telepresence, AR/VR, and immersive gaming of “immediately’s and tomorrow’s properties”. Industrial gross sales are anticipated to start within the second half of 2023, in accordance with the agency.