Samsung Foundry is wrestling hard to sustain its leading legacy in the chipset market as it’s struggling to find new clients for its advanced chip fabrication nodes. Now, it seems to have received a new customer, Autotalks, as the report says. Let’s take a closer look at the report.
Qualcomm announced that it has acquired Autotalks to boost V2X deployments, which will result in enhancing road safety and upgrading automated driving and traffic efficiency. In case you missed it, Autotalks is a fabless semiconductor firm devoted to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications for manned and autonomous vehicles.
Now, Qualcomm has bought Autotalks, while Samsung Foundry has come down to Autotalks as a new customer. According to a new report from ETNews, a few weeks ago, Autotalks visited Samsung’s Austin factory to check whether it’s ready to make high-end chipsets. This process is called PPAP, which stands for a quality test before production or product starts.
Samsung is already one of the leading chipset manufacturers in the smartphone market, and now it’s looking forward to reaching the leading edge in car tech. In case Samsung cracks this deal successfully, then it will be in a prime spot to produce the V2X chips, which will power future cars.
V2X allows cars to chat with each other and things such as traffic lights, and will help by preventing from accidents and ease traffic jams, leading to safer driving by keeping vehicles connected in real time. It remains to be seen exactly how much this new collaboration will be significant.
