Mobileye, STMicroelectronics To Codevelop SoC for Fully Autonomous Cars

Mobileye and STMicroelectronics are teaming to codevelop the next generation of Mobileye's EyeQ SoC, the EyeQ5, to be “the central computer performing sensor fusion” for fully autonomous vehicles when they’re commercialized starting in 2020, the chipmakers said in a Tuesday joint announcement. Engineering samples of EyeQ5 are expected to be available by first half of 2018, they said. EyeQ5 will be delivered to automakers and Tier-1 OEMs with “a full suite of hardware accelerated algorithms and applications that are required for autonomous driving,” they said. Mobileye also will support an “automotive-grade” standard operating system and provide a complete software development kit “to allow customers to differentiate their solutions by deploying their algorithms on EyeQ5,” they said. The companies expect to make the software development kit available by late 2018, they said.