Samsung wheels out new silicon that turns cars into 5G-fuelled entertainment hubs
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The Exynos Auto V7 is intended to drive in-car infotainment systems. Eight Arm Cortex-A76 cores hum along at up to 1.5GHz, helped by 11 Arm Mali G76 GPU cores.
Samsung has dedicated three of the GPU cores to electronic instrument clusters. The remaining eight can be set to work driving up to four other displays, or processing input from a dozen cameras.
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The Korean giant says the SoC also packs a neural processing unit to power "services such as virtual assistance that can process visual and audio data for face, speech or gesture recognition features". If that's not enough computing power for you, it also includes three HiFi 4 audio processors to make your tunes sound sweet. The chip can be paired with up to 32GB of LPDDR4x memory capable of shifting data at up to 68.3GB/sec.
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The SoC is already in production and can be found in In-Car Application-Server version 3.1, which was developed by Samsung's great Korean rival LG Electronics.
[3]Whenever automakers get their hands on chip supplies, the more expensive vehicles are first in line – NXP
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[5]Chip manufacturers are going back to the future for automotive silicon
The Exynos Auto T5123 packs a 5G modem that can shift data 5.1Gbit/sec, plus a pair of Cortex-A55 CPU cores. The chip is all about communicating with cars, for telematics or to stream video calls and HD content into the cockpit.
Another new product, the S2VPS01, is a power management integrated circuit designed to work alongside the Exynos Auto V9 and V7.
All three of the products have passed the tests required to make it onto the road – an environment in which standards are high because if computers crash so might a hunk of metal and plastic travelling at lethal speed. ®
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Re: What is a car?
Apparently it's a mobile phone with wheels.
Though I must admit, a car which breaks because the entertainment system has broken is, um, broken by design.
Re: What is a car?
As someone who is never going to get a "smart" phone the question I would like to ask is: Can all this stuff be removed from the car and it still works?
At the risk of being thought a Luddite, stuck in my ways and hopelessly old-fashioned what I require from a car is that it gets me from A to B reliably and cheaply, What I don' t want is some smart-arsed computer telling me where to go and how to drive, I'm quite capable of figuring that out for myself.
Added to which is the potential of a greatly expanded attack surface for all manner of ills. Would you trust the likes of Ford or Toyota to scrupulously keep all the software and firmware updated? Or would that involve some sort of paid subscription?
No, as a firm believer in the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well they can keep their mobile computers. I'll keep mine on my desk where it belongs.
Re: What is a car?
Not really. Certainly in the UK/EU area the sim is enbedded into the car as part of an EU mandate that cars must have one from 2017 so that they can be in the future stoped.frrom drriving above the speed limiits. Its the whole other side of this with the constant telemetry going back to the manufacturer that gets on my nerves. Half of thisnis for the consummer, the rest is to enaable data transnfer back to base.
The concerning thing to me is the public awareness of it all, so many folk think the apps that they have for unlocking/locking their car l, viewing journeys etc connect to their car is frightening, they have no idea ita.connected to manufacturer then to their car. This is all a massive money spinner//saver for the manufacturer as the data they get off the cars is huge, saves them having to pay for research amd development teams.
The likes of JLR, VAG, BMW, Volvo etc are happy to engage on social media regarding their cars but go ssilent as soon as telemetry is mentioned. Also can be guaranteed every one of them breaks GDPR by not asking for explicit consent for this, either through dealers or direct.
The firmware is a good question, the more they make these vehicles connected, the stronger the possibility for hackers. Also this thing with over the air updates, loads of folk think is great, but I buy a car based.in what it's like to drive and use, then during ownership the system changee, its.not the car I bought. Then you get, like JLR are doing, apps pushed out (in JLR's case Alexa) which are completely unwanted and unable to be uninstalled. Who owns the car the consummer of the manufacturer?
They also lie about what they take off the cars, if you do question them and get an answer, its only journeys and location so you can find where you left it or theft tracker etc, but working for a poliice force in IT, I know folk who deal with Investigations who with a warrant can get almost anything the driver has done in the car ie accelorator usage, brake usage, speed, location, interaction with other car controls etc.
Go back 15-20 years ago and the only way to do this was stalking amd physical surveillance which was illegal, but now theres a "chip & internet connection" not an eyelid is batted.
Everything a driver pretty much NEEDS can be done without all this rubbish, decent sound system, a Sat Nav, bluetooth, prroper BUTTONS so you can press one thing the switch on/change a setting without taking eyes off the road.
Sorry gone off on a rant there!!
So now tracking becomes compulsory
I just can't wait to have all new cars constant monitoring and reporting my every move. You know, for my convenience/terrorists/think of the children.
Oh, wait, you can add a couple of cameras and microphones and any car could also be used to spy on everybody in range.
In cockpit video calls
I sincerely hope video calls can not be enabled whilst the car is in motion, there is already too much crap in a modern car to distract drivers from the quintessential part of being a driver, the actual driving bit. e.g. Short sighted drivers peering at the google map on the screen while driving at max on the autopiste, then suddenly careering across all lanes to the exit they nearly missed. Whether deaf, talking on the phone or simply stupid I don't know but see it often enough.
Yes I include allegedly self driving cars too.
The leaders of the World get together at a single malt tasting jolly in Scotland and agree that 'something must be done about climate change' while the World's industry continues to create landfill as fast as they possibly can.
Re: In cockpit video calls
Chris, true. Already we in recreational aviation have been for years warned, rightly, about electronic distraction devices. As for the surface transport systems, a few drives in a Merc emergency vehicle has put me off anything made even partly in Europe for life.
Re: In cockpit video calls
Oh god! I once drove an A-Class and by the end of the journey I wanted to crash the car to make its incessant bonging stop so obnoxious.
I want to find the people who decided that was a good idea and fit them with a device that goes bong every time they move as punishment.
What is a car?
An entertainment system with an amusement park ride built in, minus the safety. It'll sell.