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AMD: The In-Vehicle Experience (Whitepaper)

AMD: The In-Vehicle Experience (Whitepaper)

Automotive designers are challenged to keep pace with dynamic, aggressive design and compute requirements. From in-vehicle infotainment systems to advanced driver assistance systems, the modern vehicle as we know it, is undergoing a radical reimagining as it gains expansive, integrated infotainment within the cabin, and increased autonomy on our roadways.

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Automotive News Europe: Sensor supplier AMS wins Great Wall business

Sensor supplier AMS wins Great Wall business

ams technology, developed in cooperation with Germany's Ibeo Automotive Systems, a specialist for optical sensors that use lasers to produce 3D pictures of a car's environment, or lidar, will be a core component of a new generation of Great Wall Motor's vehicles.

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Auto Beat: VCSEL LIDAR and Level 3 Autonomy

VCSEL LIDAR and Level 3 Autonomy

High-performer sensor supplier ams has announced that a LIDAR system from Ibeo Automotive Systems, ibeoNEXT, which uses ams Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology, will be used in Level 3 automated driving systems for vehicles built by Chinese OEM Great Wall Motor in 2022.

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EBN: Summer School for Buyers: HDI & Auto Design

Summer School for Buyers: HDI & Auto Design

Today’s automotive industry is changing at an incredibly fast pace, moving from combustion engine-based designs with human drivers to driverless, electronics-based systems. This automotive transformation presents some clear electronic design challenges in the inevitable shift toward the design and production of semi- and fully autonomous vehicles.

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Financial Times: Can Automakers Catch Up with Google in Driverless Cars?

Can Automakers Catch Up with Google in Driverless Cars?

General Motors celebrated being the world’s largest carmaker for the 76th straight year in 2007. It was sitting on $25 billion in cash. Eighteen months later, it was bankrupt. The automotive industry is among the most capital intensive in the world: If the economy sours, assets turn into liabilities overnight as factories churning out thousands of cars begin to hemorrhage cash. So when toxic mortgage securities blew up in 2008, causing a recession, banks performed terribly — but carmakers fared even worse. (Article originally appeared in Financial Times)

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EDN: Meeting the power demands of battery supplied automotive electronics

Meeting the power demands of battery supplied automotive electronics

Have you driven a new automobile recently?  It can be an almost futuristic experience, with sophisticated gauges, touch screens, connected entertainment systems, and lighting—all of which need power. Behind all these electronics are battery regulators and battery chargers that manage the power both into and out of 12V, 24V, and 48V batteries. Each year the ‘must have’ list of supported accessories and electronic systems grows with the expectation that the size, weight and number of supporting power components will keep pace with the increased power demands.