Automotive Electronics

Daimler is expecting chip shortages to last throughout 2022. Yesterday, CTO Markus Schaefer told journalists: “Chip scarcity will also accompany us in 2022, particularly in the first half.’ “We do not expect significant production capacity increases in the first half of the year,” added Schaefer, “these will barely come in the full year.” Nissan and Renault are saying they expect to ...

NXP and Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a subsidiary company of Foxconn, have hooked up to transform the car into the ultimate edge device. NXP will provide FII with its  portfolio of automotive technologies. The initial phase of the joint project will focus on the development of a full digital cockpit solution, based on the NXP i.MX 8 QuadMax. The platform ...

The selection of a materials supplier should be based on a number of factors throughout the design chain, says Ladislav Zima of Parker Hannifin. In the high-volume automotive industry, it is advisable to ensure that any supplier of electromagnetic (EMI) shielding and thermal interface material (TIM) can offer optimised production capabilities. The right manufacturing expertise and capacity cleanliness management, and ...

Joe Sawicki , executive vice president, IC EDA at Siemens, challenged the mutterings that Moore’s law has run its course, and said the semiconductor industry was blighted with pessimism. At this year’s DAC (Design Automation Conference) he set about looking at the figures in a new light. “There have been morose expectations and miserable prognostics, for like 20 years,” he reasoned, ...

STMicroelectronics had debuted its third generation of silicon carbide mosfet with a 650V device aimed at electric-vehicle power-trains. Called SCT040H65G3AG, the part typically has a 40mΩ on-resistance and can carry 30A through its Kelvin source H2PAK-7 package (right). Regarding gen 3 “ST’s new SiC devices are specifically optimised for automotive applications including traction inverters, on-board chargers and dc-dc converters, as well as e-climate ...

BMW has signed a direct supply agreement with INOVA Semiconductors and GlobalFoundries. The agreement guarantees the BMW Group the supply of several million ICs a year. The deal follows a similar agreement struck last month between GloFo and Ford. BMW’s chips  will be used in the ISELED smart LED technology co-developed by BMW, which will be deployed for the first time ...

Intel says it will take Mobileye public in the USA in mid-2022 via an issue of new Mobileye stock. Estimates suggest Mobileye could be worth $50 billion. Mobileye had revenues of  $1 billion in the first nine months of this year and operating income of $361 million. The move will unlock the value of Mobileye for Intel shareholders by creating a ...

The power electronics market is promising a 6.9% CAGR between 2020 and 2026 to reach $26 billion, forecasts Yole Developpement Automotive, industrial motor drives, and telecom will be the main drivers of the discrete component market segment taking it to more than $16 billion in 2026. EV, industrial motors, and home appliances will drive the power module market to almost ...

P-Duke has announced a rugged 30W dc-dc converter in a 1 x 1inch (~25 x 25mm) package for railway and industrial applications. Called the RCD30W series, the converters have 4:1 input voltage ranges suited to rolling stock, with a choice of 9-36V, 18-75V or 36-160V. There are single and dual output models including: 3.3, 5, 5.1, 12, 15, 24, ±12, ±15, ...

Automotive demand for 6-inch SiC wafers is expected to reach 1.69 million units in 2025 thanks to the rising penetration rate of EVs and the trend towards high-voltage 800V EV architecture, says TrendForce. Various major automakers are selling EVs with 800V charging architectures including the Porsche Taycan, Audi Q6 e-tron, and Hyundai Ioniq 5. The  arrival of the 800V EV ...