News Panther Lake and Nova Lake reportedly power Intel's next-gen automotive SoCs, Intel releases new roadmap

[Admin]

Intel's next-generation "Frisco Lake" and "Grizzly Lake" SDV SoCs for automobiles reportedly follow consumer architectures, with a one-year cadence.

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[HAZERD2]

I'm just curious to know why does a car (if I am not mistaken) need a powerful processor? And if it does, why does it not just use mobile chips?

 

[GenericUser2001]

I'm just curious to know why does a car (if I am not mistaken) need a powerful processor? And if it does, why does it not just use mobile chips?

Well, you need enough power to run the navigation / map stuff smoothly, and people like fancy looking maps these days with the large screens, play music, and handle various driver assistance functions. Qualcomm also makes chips for this space, which are pretty similar to their mobile chips. Obviously Intel will want to make chips that share as much as possible with their other products as well, to cut costs.

 

[usertests]

I'm just curious to know why does a car (if I am not mistaken) need a powerful processor? And if it does, why does it not just use mobile chips?

It almost looks like these could handle "infotainment" (remember Tesla including a 6600M equivalent GPU for gaming?) and self-driving at the same time (because why else would it support up to 12 cameras at once? maybe security).

As for not using off-the-shelf mobile chips, it might have to support additional features and greater reliability than typical chips. Probably uses ECC memory. Intel is no stranger to having a million different SKUs at once.

 

[User of Computers]

I'm just curious to know why does a car (if I am not mistaken) need a powerful processor? And if it does, why does it not just use mobile chips?

Because cars are tech products now.

 

[User of Computers]

I'm just curious to know why does a car (if I am not mistaken) need a powerful processor? And if it does, why does it not just use mobile chips?

Because cars are tech products now.