Samsung officially announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a partnership with Ambarella, an American chip design company, to mass-produce a chip for the latter on a 5-nanometer process, which is used to support the self-driving function of cars.
The CV3-AD685 system-on-chip (SoC) developed by Ambarella can act as the “brain” of self-driving cars, with 20 times the performance of its predecessor CV2, Samsung officials said. It reads and analyzes input data from cameras and radar, and automatically selects the appropriate driving mode.
This collaboration will help transform the next generation of self-driving car safety systems, taking artificial intelligence processing performance, power and reliability to new levels,” Samsung said in an official press release.
Samsung’s press release that the company plans to have non-mobile products account for more than 50 percent of its revenue from its foundry business or contract chip manufacturing business by 2027.
