The Real Life

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The modern times influencing the automotive industry can almost be regarded as a game of Musical Chairs: Under Diess, VW wanted to develop their own chips, and yet in 2022 the pendulum swung once more in the direction of established semiconductor manufacturers as suppliers of high-end CPUs. Qualcomm was selected as a partner, whose processors were destined to drive all VW models partially/highly automated up to SAE Level 4 from 2025 based on Cariad software. Even BMW had announced a partnership with Qualcomm at the start of 2022 after Intel's subsidiary Mobileye seemed to have made the running. Mercedes, until recently, had wanted to develop and offer software for ADAS functions "together with NVIDIA from 2024". However, since the announcement at the IAA 2023 that starting with MBUX, here too Qualcomm chips will be used, the end seems to be nigh for even this liaison - probably for cost reasons since NVIDIA participates in the turnover in relation to the systems. And the large suppliers are still waiting in the wings with their designs. …