CES has become the premier event to showcase new automotive technology. In fact, even before the COVID-19 Omicron variant outbreak, it seemed that the automotive segment was drawing the lion's share of in-person attendance at CES. And throughout CES, I will be highlighting some of the technology advancements aimed at Electric Vehicles (EVs), Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), and Autonomous Vehicles (AV's). Qualcomm announced major enhancements to its product portfolio for ADAS and Autonomous Drive (AD) systems. While the company did not go into detail during its press conference, Qualcomm provided more depth on the announcement during a recent briefing.

Ambarella AMBA recently announced a collaboration with Amazon's AMZN cloud computing arm, AWS, enabling customers to use Amazon SageMaker Neo cloud service to run ML models on devices based on Ambarella's CVflow-powered AI vision SoC (system on chip). Reportedly, this collaboration eliminates the need for developers to manually optimize ML models for devices based on Ambarella AI vision SoCs, preventing delays and errors in application development. The company will exhibit the collaboration with Amazon SageMaker Neo during CES 2020, to be held on Jan 7-10. Ambarella also named IP surveillance solution provider, VIVOTEK, as the first joint customer to leverage the single-click ML solution for edge applications. The company's CVflow suit of SoCs runs on an advanced 10-nanometer process, which enables the development of compact, high-performance vision systems with ultra-low-power operation.