AVCC
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At the launch of Arm TechCon in San Jose, a group of leading companies from the automotive and computing industries announced the formation of the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC). The consortium, comprised of automotive, automotive supply, semiconductor and computing companies will serve as the leading organisation for autonomous computing expertise and is looking to speed up development of the technology.
The initial AVCC members - Arm Holdings, Bosch, Continental, DENSO, General Motors, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors and Toyota - will collaborate to help solve some of the most significant challenges to deploy self-driving vehicles at scale. the consortium has encouraged other automotive and tech companies to join.
According to the website, the first step towards reaching the group's common objective is to "define a reference architecture and platform to meet the autonomous performance goals within the power, thermal and size constraints of a vehicle."
The platform, which will essentially be a common computing architecture, will be specifically designed to move the prototypes of today towards deployment at scale. Using a shared structure will also mean it is easier for auto manufacturers to develop software that will work on chips from different vendors in a similar
In an interview with Reuters, Chet Babla, Arm Holdings’ vice president of automotive said: “I just came back from trips in the US and China and had the opportunity to ride in four different types of autonomous vehicles. They were great prototype platforms for proving the software, but when I asked to look at the electronics powering these vehicles, it literally was servers in trunks.”
We’ve got a long way to go,” he added.
Massimo Osella, chairman of the new group’s board and a lab group manager for research and development at GM, said: “The massive amount of technological innovation required to power fully self-driving vehicles at scale requires collaboration at an industry level.”
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