Contemporary cars - smart electric cars are inseparable from chips. At present, everyone is using a distributed or multi-domain control automotive electronic and electrical architecture. The number of chips in a car is about 1,000. Of course, the future development trend should be more centralized, with more high-performance chips and fewer chips. But the value will be higher. There used to be data showing that the value of chips in cars accounted for nearly 20%, and it will account for 30% in the future. It is mainly used for:
1. Intelligent cockpit driving chip: namely CPU and GPU, used for entertainment, intelligent driving, etc., focusing on high performance and high computing power.
2. Control chips: Commonly used chips such as body chassis, as well as power management chips for auxiliary chips, etc. Basically, Infineon’s TriCore series is the king;
3. Power chip: IGBT is used in motor control, etc.;
4. Communication chips: CAN, Bluetooth, positioning and other chips, popular Ethernet chips—for example, there will be more and more Realtek in Taiwan, as well as high-precision positioning chips;
5. Memory chips: with smart cars, similar to computer memory and hard drives, the value in cars is getting higher and higher;
6. Sensor chip: camera, IMU, etc.;
7. Other driver chips, power simulation chips;
Generally speaking, for smart cars, if the car does not have chips, any functions and intelligence are impossible