At CES, Intel announced plans to drive the company’s AI everywhere strategy into the automotive market, including a deal to buy Silicon Mobility – a fabless silicon and software company specializing in SoCs for intelligent electric vehicle (EV) energy management.
The EV transition and customer demand for in-vehicle experiences fuels Intel’s strategy to enable the SDV. And Intel also announced a commitment to deliver the industry’s first open UCIe-based chiplet platform for SDVs. Intel will work with imec in ensuring the packaging technologies meet the rigorous quality and reliability requirements of the automotive industry. Intel will also chair a new industry-defining international standard for EV power management.
Intel SoCs are now in more than 50 million vehicles, powering infotainment, displays, digital instrument clusters and more. Tomorrow, Intel’s expanded AI-enhanced “whole vehicle” roadmap will drive the industry toward a more scalable, software-defined, and sustainable future.
Silicon Mobility SAS (a portfolio company of Cipio Partners and Capital-E) is a fabless automotive silicon and software company that designs, develops and deploys EV energy management SoCs. And Silicon Mobility’s SoCs feature industry-leading accelerators purpose-built for energy delivery and co-designed with highly advanced software algorithms for significant gains in vehicle energy efficiency.
Silicon Mobility’s technology portfolio will expand Intel’s reach in the vehicle beyond high-performance computing into intelligent and programmable power devices. And the acquisition is subject to necessary approvals.
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“Intel is taking a ‘whole vehicle’ approach to solving the industry’s biggest challenges. Driving innovative AI solutions across the vehicle platform will help the industry navigate the transformation to EVs. The acquisition of Silicon Mobility aligns with our sustainability goals while addressing a critical energy management need for the industry.”
“Intel’s AI-enhanced SDV SoCs combine the best of AI PC and Intel data center technologies necessary to support a true software-defined vehicle architecture.”
— Jack Weast, vice president and general manager of Intel Automotive
