Bosch, Continental, Denso, GM, Nvidia, NXP, and Toyota declared their support for the new consortium.
eetasia.com, Oct. 17, 2019 –
During Arm TechCon in Santa Clara this week, a group of automotive and technology companies, including Bosch, Continental, Denso, General Motors, Nvidia, NXP Semiconductors and Toyota, declared their support for the newly launched Arm-led Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium, Inc. (AVCC).
The group, organized quietly over the past two months, plans to develop a set of APIs that sits above underlying autonomous vehicle (AV) hardware, Armando Pereira, President of AVCC, told EE Times. "Our focus is predominantly on hardware."
The consortium's goal is to optimize semiconductor solutions by writing a standard set of common requirements for hardware. "Those in the AV industry are seeing a huge opportunity in it, because they want to develop AVs that are less power hungry, and that can be manufactured at scale," said Pereira.