Just after Qualm, Arm, NVIDIA, Intel and other manufacturers successively launched in-vehicle processor products, Samsung finally decided to enter this market. It is expected that ExynosAutoV9, the first wave of on-board processor, will be built with its 8nmFinFET process technology, and it is expected to be first applied to Audi's car models in 20021year.
In fact, Samsung used to have very close cooperation with Audi, including becoming a member of Audi's progressive semiconductor program from 20 15, supplying memory products. Last year, it also announced that it would provide an organic light-emitting diode display panel for Audi's first pure tram E-Tron. The announcement confirmed that Samsung will invest in building an on-board processor. The first Exynosatov 9 produced by Samsung's 8nmFinFET process will be first applied to Audi's car models on 202 1.
As for Audi, in fact, there are many ambitions in the fields of autonomous driving, electric vehicles and intelligent in-vehicle systems. In addition to recruiting various technical application resources through its new projects, it also cooperates with chip manufacturers such as NVIDIA to strengthen the development of electric vehicles, smart cars and even autonomous driving technologies.
The cooperation with Samsung and the decision to take the lead in adopting Exynosatov 9 processor are expected to further deepen the cooperation with Samsung, thus ensuring the sufficient supply of key autonomous driving projects such as intelligent in-vehicle system processors, multi-function display panels, and memory of important computing components.
In addition to building its first in-vehicle processor product, Samsung previously revealed that it will invest $22.3 billion to develop artificial intelligence, 5G and in-vehicle electronic technologies, and cooperate with Harman to build the future in-vehicle platform DRVLINE with open architecture design. At the same time, it is also reported that it has started to test the autopilot system in South Korea and California, and constantly updated its new version of ConnectAuto smart car solution, indicating that Samsung is quite ambitious for the smart car application market with significant gold content.