Intel has introduced one other dimension to its need to “carry AI in all places,” buying Silicon Mobility in an effort to achieve a stronger foothold into the automotive market with synthetic intelligence in electrical automobile administration — and a brand new household of system-on-chip merchandise designed for what the corporate calls “Software program Outlined Automobiles” or SDVs.
“Intel is taking a ‘complete automobile’ method to fixing the trade’s largest challenges. Driving revolutionary AI options throughout the automobile platform will assist the trade navigate the transformation to EVs [Electric Vehicles],” claims Intel Automotive vp and normal supervisor Jack Weast of the corporate’s latest announcement. “The acquisition of Silicon Mobility aligns with our sustainability objectives whereas addressing a essential vitality administration want for the trade.”
Intel has demonstrated its imaginative and prescient for the “Software program Outlined Automobile,” which features a new household of system-on-chips. (📷: Intel)
Silicon Mobility focuses on system-on-chip designs constructed for vitality administration in electrical automobiles, which is able to now be introduced into the Intel portfolio. Along with bringing the corporate below its wing, the acquisition may also see Intel deploying its personal applied sciences in the identical goal market — a part of its imaginative and prescient, outlined late final 12 months, to “carry AI in all places,” and to beat rivals NVIDIA and AMD within the automotive market.
Intel is not simply bringing AI to bear on managing the facility in electrical automobiles, although: the corporate has additionally introduced a brand new vary of “AI-enhanced” system-on-chip merchandise aimed toward what it calls the “Software program Outlined Automobile” — demonstrating its merchandise, together with a “first-generation SDV SoC”, its RealSense Imaginative and prescient SoC, and an Arc A770 graphics processor, getting used for in-vehicle generative AI, e-mirror help, high-definition video conferencing, and even operating PC video games, with a number of working programs operating concurrently. “Intel’s AI-enhanced SDV SoCs mix one of the best of AI PC and Intel information middle applied sciences essential to help a real software-defined automobile structure,” Weast claims.
Intel’s acquisition of Silicon Mobility offers it a foothold in chips designed to handle the vitality programs of electrical automobiles. (📷: Silicon Mobility)
The acquisition of Silicon Mobility, which is topic to the same old regulatory approvals, and renewed deal with automotive comes per week after the corporate introduced it was spinning out a devoted subsidiary for generative AI applied sciences: Articul8, with which Intel says it is going to proceed to collaborate.
No launch date or pricing info for the SDV SoC household has been introduced, although the corporate will likely be demonstrating its merchandise on the Client Electronics Present in Las Vegas this week.