[News Article] Hyundai Mobis, Qualcomm to develop controller for Level 3 autonomous vehicles
Hyundai
Mobis, Qualcomm to develop controller for Level 3 autonomous vehicles
BY SARAH CHEA, Korea
JoongAng Daily — Hyundai Mobis will work together with Qualcomm to develop a
controller for Level 3 autonomous vehicles.
The announcement
came on Thursday at the CES 2023 trade show, which opened an independent booth
to showcase its major technologies for future mobility. Executives of the two
companies held a meeting at the tech show to discuss the strategies, though
specific details have not yet been declared.
“Under the
cooperation, Mobis will develop an integrated autonomous driving controller
scaling up to Level 3 utilizing the San Diego-based company’s chips,” said Kim
Young-kwang, vice president of Hyundai Mobis’ business strategy team, on the
sidelines of the CES 2023. “The development will be completed in the first half
of the year at the earliest.”
An integrated
controller is an essential system for realizing Level 3 autonomous technology
as it enables the efficient and easy process of adding new features and
improving performance. The cooperation comes as the auto parts maker has been
redesigning its direction of future growth as a company specializing in
mobility.
“To mark our new
step forward, we are redefining our company's name Mobis. It now stands for
Mobility Beyond Integrated Solution,” Hyundai Mobis President Cho Sung-hwan
said during a media showcase Thursday. “As a mobility platform provider, we
want to modularize elemental technologies in various fields and provide
integrated solutions that satisfy customer needs."
Mobis also
demonstrated a concept purpose-built vehicle (PBV) during CES 2023, which the
company believes to be what future mobility looks like. The vehicle, which the
company calls M.Vision TO, is an autonomous vehicle that extends freedom of
movement including crab driving and zero-turn with 90 degrees rotating
wheel.
Hyundai Mobis has
been focusing to strengthen close cooperative relationships with various
foreign companies in a bid to secure new technologies for future mobility. It
recently teamed up with Ottopia, an Israeli start-up, to jointly develop a
teleoperation system for Level 4 autonomous vehicles or higher. The attempt is
part of the company's effort to lure global automakers as clients as 80 percent
of its total sales come from solely Hyundai Motor and Kia.
“Orders from foreign
companies have constantly been increasing, and we aim to generate 30 percent of
our sales from foreign clients,” Kim said. “We set a target of $3.75 billion of
orders from overseas companies last year, and achieved that in the third
quarter.”
Source: https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2023/01/08/business/industry/korea-ces-ces-2023/20230108143555873.html
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