How electronics and software became the new masters in the automobile industry

How electronics and software became the new masters in the automobile industry
How electronics and software became the new masters in the automobile industry

DECRYPTION – Innovations and services offered to drivers have led to the emergence of more powerful components. Equipment manufacturers and semiconductor suppliers are benefiting from this technological revolution.

Omnipresent in Las Vegas for around ten years, automobile manufacturers and suppliers will once again boast their most spectacular technological advances: flying cars, voice control to assist the driver, autonomous driving aids… All these innovations presented at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) over the years hides another much more ambitious revolution that manufacturers could not achieve without the help of semiconductor manufacturers and software developers: that of “Software defined vehicles” (SDV), defined vehicles speak software, a formula for insiders which does not say much about the industrial upheavals it will cause.

«The forty small “computers” present in vehicles are being replaced by a new electronic architecture which is based on four to five centralized computers, then it will be a singlesummarizes François Marion, the director…

This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 85% left to discover.

Flash Sale

€4.99 per month for 12 months. No commitment.

Already subscribed? Log in

Swiss

-

-

PREV Online News Act | Google sent the promised 100 million
NEXT Tennis. ATP – Brisbane (D) – The Djokovic/Kyrgios show will continue this Wednesday