Freescale Launches Quad-Core Processor For Self-Driving Cars
By VentureBeat, April 12, 2015
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Freescale is announcing a processor today that it hopes will be useful in self-driving cars. The big automotive chip maker hopes that its S32V Vision Processor will help steer the auto industry to the first crash-less car.
The company unveiled the chip at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain. The chip has features such as reliability, safety, and security that are necessary to “co-pilot” a self-aware car, the company said. It’s also their first step toward cars that will drive themselves, possibly by the year 2030.
Ray Cornyn, vice president of automotive engineering for microcontrollers at Freescale, said in an interview with VentureBeat that autonomous cars will be a major step forward in safety, once the engineers get it right.
