Autonomous Vehicles

GlobalFoundries And Bosch Partner On MmWave Radar, Reinforcing Silicon Is Strategic

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Research, Semiconductor / March 28, 2021

For a tech industry analyst like me, the automotive market is interesting given the electrification, safety and self-driving intelligence added to today’s models as well as commitments by automakers to aggressive roadmaps. Cars of the future will be datacenters on wheels, software-defined, connected by 5G, and with gobs of compute, storage and networking silicon. Given …

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Qualcomm Revs Its Engines At Its Automotive Redefined Event

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Research, Semiconductor / February 12, 2021

When you think of mobile semiconductors, one company that’s always top-of-mind is Qualcomm. While its silicon powers many if not most of the world’s phones and tablets, the company has not been content to rest on its laurels. In recent years it has begun to extend its mobile technology into other emergent fields, such as …

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Intel’s Mobileye Presents Plan For Worldwide AV Rollout At CES 2021

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Research / February 1, 2021

Intel may have had a shakeup at its CEO ranks yesterday, but the show must go on. Every year, the tech news cycle kicks off in January with the expansive Consumer Electronics Showcase, or CES, where companies from all over demonstrate their latest and greatest. I lost count at how many I attended at 20.  This …

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AI Is More Than A Buzzword And Being Deployed Now On Ships And Golf Carts

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Research / January 15, 2021

More than ever, organizations are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to bring efficiency, productivity gains, and a return on investment. In these uncertain times, AI is a powerful differentiator for companies of all sizes to transform digitally. In recent years, the cloud has become integral in advancing AI as vendors offering years of research and tools …

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AI Is More Than A Buzzword And Being Deployed Now On Ships And Golf Carts

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Research / January 11, 2021

More than ever, organizations are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to bring efficiency, productivity gains, and a return on investment. In these uncertain times, AI is a powerful differentiator for companies of all sizes to transform digitally. In recent years, the cloud has become integral in advancing AI as vendors offering years of research and tools …

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A Chat With Qualcomm’s New Automotive Leader, Nakul Duggal, Driving An $8B Backlog

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Research / November 23, 2020

As I’ve said many times before, I believe fully autonomous vehicles will be one of the most impactful technological innovations in our lifetimes. As the industry grows and autonomous vehicles become more advanced and ubiquitous, there will be an immense market opportunity for those involved in making these automobiles tick. One tech company that has …

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Exploring Marvell’s Digital Transformation Strategy and Focus for the Future – Six Five Insiders Edition

By / 5G, Autonomous Vehicles, Big Data and Storage, Podcast, Research / July 21, 2020

On this episode of The Six Five – Insiders Edition podcast hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman talk to Chris Koopmans, the CMO of Marvell, about the company’s rebranding efforts, their transformation initiatives and the product lines and services that Marvell is focusing on for the future.  In our conversation, Chris, Daniel and I explored Marvell’s recent pivot …

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NVIDIA And Mercedes-Benz Appear To Be Reinventing Automotive Business Model

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Research / July 15, 2020

Last week, NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz announced their partnership going into the next decade to create fully autonomous vehicles (AVs). With NVIDIA’s global leadership in accelerated computing and Mercedes-Benz’s experience in the manufacturing of premium cars, together, they plan to create a new software-defined vehicle that includes in-vehicle computing systems and AI computing architecture. Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA plan on rolling out the first …

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Moor Insights & Strategy Analyst Coverage of NVIDIA GTC 2020

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial IoT (IIoT), Internet of Things IoT, Research, Self Driving Cars / May 18, 2020

Blogs/Articles NVIDIA Launches New Ampere Architecture, Infrastructure, Robotics And Automotive Technologies At GTC 2020, by Patrick Moorhead NVIDIA Targets Ampere Architecture To The Edge And 5G With EGX A100, by Anshel Sag NVIDIA Launches Ampere A100 GPU For Data Center Computing And AI, by Karl Freund Podcasts Six Five Live Ep 38- Chips In The …

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Tesla Is Years Ahead Of Competitors With No Signs Of Stopping

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things IoT, Research / March 20, 2020

A lot of the leading car manufacturers in the world are playing catch up with Tesla. I believe this is because many of them simply didn’t believe that Tesla could deliver. But if you look at Tesla’s volume for the Tesla Model 3, there are some significant proof points that the company has. In fact, …

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Qualcomm Officially Enters Self-Driving Market With Snapdragon Ride Platform And Extends Partnership With GM To Include ADAS

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things IoT, Research / January 24, 2020

Known traditionally for its ubiquitous mobile semiconductors powering most of the planet’s smartphones and tablets, Qualcomm has leveraged its expertise and IP to elbow its way into other emergent sectors—namely, automotive, IoT, and datacenter edge ML. I’ve covered these automotive moves fairly extensively, from its CES announcements last year, to last week when I shared some …

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ON Semiconductor Ready For A Growing Auto Electrification Market

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things IoT, Self Driving Cars / April 8, 2019

ON Semiconductor is a company that I’ve been watching very closely over the past year. Spun off of Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector back in 1999, the company has made a name for itself manufacturing power and signal management, discrete, logic, and other custom devices for a variety of industry applications. Lately, its influence is on …

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NVIDIA Gears Up For An Even Larger GTC 2019

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Gaming, Internet of Things IoT, Personal Computing / February 25, 2019

It’s that time of year again. Every spring NVIDIA kicks off its annual series of GPU Technology Conferences (GTC) with a real “humdinger” of an event held in San Jose. Last year, I wrote that GTC 2018 was the place to be if you are in any way involved in AI or machine learning. That story holds …

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Intel Demonstrates New Technology And Fab Progress At CES 2019

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Personal Computing / February 19, 2019

Last week I attended CES 2019 in Las Vegas, where the tech industry gathered in force to unveil the latest and greatest in consumer electronics technology. I’ve been working around the clock to provide coverage of the biggest announcements, and no coverage of the conference would be complete without talking about Intel. I published an …

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NVIDIA Resets The Self-Driving Bar Again With AutoPilot Supporting ‘Level 2+’

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things IoT, Self Driving Cars / January 31, 2019

Last week I attended CES 2019 in Las Vegas and took in all the consumer electronics news I possibly could, from all the leading companies in the consumer electronics, software and semiconductor sectors. I am in what some would call the “recovery phase” of CES. Days started at 6AM and ended around midnight in the …

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Initial CES 2019 Observations: Patrick Moorhead

By / 5G, AI and Machine Learning, AR/VR, Autonomous Vehicles, Carrier/Wireless, Connected Home, Gaming, Human Internet of Things (HIoT), Modularity, Notebooks, Personal Computer, Personal Computing, Self Driving Cars, Smart Home Automation, Smartphone, Ultrathin, Virtual Reality VR, Wireless / January 10, 2019

I spent the week in Las Vegas and wanted to share with you my initial CES 2019 observations: What happened: Intelligence: Amazon Alexa dominated the show with its services and partners while Google tried really hard to catch up with Amazon, even going so far as to build a roller coaster ride to get attention. …

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ON Semiconductor Ups Its Automotive Game With Mercedes F1 And FE Wins

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things IoT, Self Driving Cars / November 29, 2018

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, steers his car during Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix at the Interlagos race track in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine).   ASSOCIATED PRESS Automotive electronics is an incredibly important and growing market. These days, as much as a third of the cost of a new …

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Musk Confirms Massive Compute Required For AV, But Is Developing Own Processor The Right Direction?

By / Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things IoT, Self Driving Cars / August 20, 2018

Earlier this week, on Tesla’s earnings call, Tesla’s Elon Musk “outed” what had been previously rumored — that the company is working on its custom, self-driving car chips. Custom silicon has been the rage as of late, as we have seen Apple, Google and Facebook jump into the deep end. While only Apple has proven …

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Intel Dazzles At CES 2018 Keynote And Gives Progress On Neuromorphic And Quantum Computing

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Smart Home Automation, Virtual Reality VR / February 7, 2018

  Intel CES 2018 This past week, I and several other members of the Moor Insights & Strategy team camped out at CES 2018 in Las Vegas to learn as much as we can about the latest in consumer electronics technology, trends and company strategies. The conference is not only a great opportunity for startups to …

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NVIDIA Reinforces Automotive AI Lead With Uber And Volkswagen Announcements At CES 2018

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Self Driving Cars / January 26, 2018

Under the chaos and fog that is the Customer Electronics Show (CES) this week in Las Vegas, few companies break through the noise and stand out.  CES is the preeminent show for consumer technology vendors.  This year the primary focus of this mega conference is on advancements in robotics (machine intelligence), drones, medical devices, gaming, …

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