Intel Hails Significance of Self-Driving ‘Strategic Relationship’ With BMW, Mobileye

Intel’s collaboration with Mobileye to bring “highly and fully automated driving” to BMW vehicles within five years (see 1607010052) is “a significant strategic relationship” among the companies, Doug Davis, senior vice president-general manager of Intel’s IoT Group, told the Intel Developer Forum Thursday in San Francisco. In that three-company alliance, Intel plays “a significant role in the compute capability” of autonomous vehicles, and Mobileye “obviously plays an important role in all of that camera and sensor data” for self-driving cars, “and then we fuse it all together to create that solution,” Davis said. What’s also important in the collaboration is “the focus on creating an open standard for interfaces within the industry,” he said. “We see that this technology needs to move very rapidly and we share that vision” promoting an “open platform that can be built upon by others” and commercialized in short order, he said. “At the network level, Intel’s leadership in accelerating 5G is critical” to the future of autonomous vehicles, Davis said. “This is really important, because 5G is the only network technology capable of delivering a latency of a millisecond or less with speeds that can peak at 10 gigabits per second.”