Micron's Full Suite of Automotive-Grade Solutions Qualified for Qualcomm Automotive Platforms
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-- Micron Technology, Inc. announced that it has qualified a full suite of
its automotive-grade memory and storage solutions for Qualcomm
Technologies Inc.'s Snapdragon® Digital Chassis™,
a comprehensive set of cloud-connected platforms designed to power data-rich,
intelligent automotive services. Micron's low-power double data rate 5X
(LPDDR5X) memory, Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 3.1, Xccela™ flash memory and
quad serial peripheral interface NOR (SPI-NOR) flash have been pre-integrated
for the latest generation of Snapdragon automotive solutions and modules,
including the Snapdragon® Cockpit Platform, Snapdragon Ride™
Platform and Snapdragon Ride™ Flex System-on-Chip (SoC), all of which are
intended to handle the increasing requirements of modern and future workloads
for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This work between Micron and
Qualcomm Technologies is aimed at helping the ecosystem build next-generation intelligent
vehicles powered by sophisticated AI.
"Today's
software-defined vehicles and immersive cockpits require highly reliable,
ultralow-latency memory and storage to process massive amounts of data at the
edge and enable time-critical near-instant decision-making," said Chris
Jacobs, vice president of Micron's embedded market segments. "Our broad
portfolio of automotive memory and storage solutions provides the instant-on
performance required on the road, and we're thrilled to work with Qualcomm
Technologies to accelerate ecosystem adoption of the leading-edge solutions
designed to make vehicles safer and smarter."
Micron offers a wide
portfolio of automotive-grade solutions with high reliability, fast boot times,
high bandwidth, low power and a small footprint. Unlike many
automotive-marketed solutions that are built for consumer devices, Micron's
automotive-grade products are uniquely ruggedized, built and optimized to meet
demanding automotive standards through its process technology and product development.
These automotive products are rigorously tested to provide the extreme
stability, quality, thermal tolerances, reliability and longevity that the
automotive market requires.
Micron's solutions
are qualified for a range of Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions that support
a range of AI-driven features:
- Snapdragon Cockpit Platform is designed
for software-rich, personalized digital cockpits, supporting immersive
audio, intelligent driving assistance and rich visual experiences across
multiple displays. Equipped with high-performance computing and machine
learning accelerators, the Snapdragon Cockpit Platform features multimodal
generative AI capabilities and enables the development of digital cockpits
that can intuitively adapt and evolve with driver needs and technological
advancements.
- Snapdragon
Ride Platform enables advanced driver-assistance systems
(ADAS) features and supports a range of functionalities from basic parking
assistance to higher levels of autonomy and technologies such as computer
vision, complex AI networks, camera visualization, sensor fusion, lidar
perception, automated driving maps and ultrasonic sensor processing.
- Snapdragon
Ride™ Flex SoC is designed to support mixed-criticality
workloads with central compute, integrating digital cockpit, ADAS and
automated driving capabilities on a single chip. This centralization helps
automakers achieve a unified software-defined vehicle architecture, paving
the way for multimodal AI networks in automotive systems.
Micron's automotive
solutions will deliver powerful benefits for Qualcomm Technologies' automotive
customers and the broader ecosystem:
- Micron's automotive LPDDR5X is the flagship memory solution for applications needing the
fastest speeds and lowest power profile. LPDDR5X enables improved energy
efficiency and performance for intelligent vehicles with increasingly
bandwidth- and energy-hungry technologies such as AI-based autonomous
driving features. Notably, Micron's LPDDR5X is backward-compatible for
LPDDR5 speeds of 6.4 gigabits per second, which Qualcomm Technologies has
qualified the memory for. With this qualification, Qualcomm Technologies'
latest generation Snapdragon automotive SoCs are the first SoC family
enabling the LPDDR5 interface.
- Micron's automotive UFS 3.1 storage enables two times faster read performance and a 50% improvement
in sustained write performance,1 enabling
faster startups and over-the-air updates, more responsive launching of
applications and an overall smoother user experience. This boost in
speed brings the driver experience in line with the expectations of
consumers who have little tolerance for latency while on the road,
especially when accessing critical data such as directions from their
digital cockpit.
- Micron's Xccela™ flash memory is one of the industry's highest-performance NOR flash
memories, delivering five times the performance and reducing
energy consumption by three times.2 This
capability enables instant-on performance and fast system responsiveness
in automotive applications.
- Quad SPI-NOR flash delivers fast code execution and high reliability for
applications such as boot code and program code. This is especially
critical for scenarios such as reliably booting up a vehicle's digital
cockpit and operating system as soon as a driver starts the engine, as
code failure may result in cars being "bricked" or rendered
inoperable.
These Micron solutions
have been enabled in all the volatile and nonvolatile memory sockets of the
latest generation Snapdragon Cockpit Platforms. The companies' work builds on a
long-standing working relationship that spans multiple generations of platforms
between Micron and Qualcomm Technologies to bring immersive in-vehicle
experiences to cars. With this qualification, Micron and Qualcomm Technologies
together help the ecosystem build next-generation intelligent vehicles powered
by sophisticated AI.
Used by leading
automakers, Micron's automotive solutions have accumulated trillions of miles
on the road3 over the company's nearly 35 years in the automotive
market. Micron's deep expertise stems from tight collaboration with
automotive customers on designing memory into evolving architectures
underpinning cutting-edge automotive technologies.
This announcement
complements Micron's unveiling of the Micron 4150AT SSD at
Embedded World in Germany this week. Offering first-of-its-kind virtualization,
and four customizable ports, the
automotive-grade drive enables a new paradigm of centralized architectures for intelligent vehicles.
Together, these launches extend Micron's automotive leadership and better
empower the automotive ecosystem to usher vehicles into a new era of
intelligence at the edge.
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