NXP And Kalray Team Up On High-Performance Automated Driving Compute Platform

When the discussion turns to the computing platforms expected to power the coming wave of automated vehicles (AVs), there are basically two companies that seem to get all of the attention, Nvidia and Intel with its Mobileye subsidiary. Most of the companies developing AVs that have acknowledged their choice of chip providers are using hardware from one of those two companies. But if you open up the electronic control units in today's cars and trucks, there's a good chance that you will find chips from Eindhoven, Netherlands based NXP and they are fighting to keep a place in future vehicles through a new partnership with Kalray. French chip design firm Kalray has been around for about a decade and they specialize in processors that can run many calculations in parallel simultaneously. Kalray's Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA) chips are particularly adept at handling the type of machine learning and neural network algorithms that are at the heart of most automated driving perception systems.