Intel buys Silicon Mobility alongside automotive chiplet push
Intel is to acquire Silicon Mobility, a Swedish fabless silicon and software company that specializes in SoCs for intelligent electric vehicle (EV) energy management.
Intel also announced a commitment to deliver the industry’s first open UCIe-based chiplet platform for SDVs. Intel will work with imec to ensure the packaging technologies for automotive and aims to be the first automotive supplier to support the integration of third-party chiplets into its automotive products.
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The company also launched a family of AI-enhanced software-defined vehicle system-on-chips (SoCs), with Zeekr as the first original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to adopt the new SoC to deliver its generative AI-driven living room experiences to next-generation vehicles. The chips tap into Intel’s AI PC roadmap to enable the most desirable in-vehicle AI use cases, such as driver and passenger monitoring.
“Intel is taking a ‘whole vehicle’ approach to solving the industry’s biggest challenges. Driving innovative AI solutions across the vehicle platform will help the industry navigate the transformation to EVs,” said Jack Weast, vice president and general manager of Intel Automotive. “The acquisition of Silicon Mobility aligns with our sustainability goals while addressing a critical energy management need for the industry.”
Intel SoCs are used in more than 50 million vehicles, powering infotainment, displays, digital instrument clusters and more. Tomorrow, Intel’s expanded AI-enhanced “whole vehicle” roadmap will move the industry toward a more scalable, software-defined and sustainable future.
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Silicon Mobility’s technology portfolio will extend Intel’s reach in the vehicle beyond high-performance compute into intelligent and programmable power devices. The acquisition is subject to necessary approvals.
The new family of AI-enhanced SDV SoCs address a critical industry need for power and performance scalability. A demo at CES 2024 in Las Vegas showed 12 advanced workloads – including generative AI, e-mirrors, high-definition video conference calling and PC games – running concurrently across multiple operating systems, including mixed critical use cases.
The demo shows how automakers can consolidate legacy electronic control unit (ECU) architecture to improve efficiency, manageability and scalability – all while integrating their own custom solutions and AI applications.
“Intel’s AI-enhanced SDV SoCs combine the best of AI PC and Intel data center technologies necessary to support a true software-defined vehicle architecture,” Weast said.
Intel will also chair a new industry-defining international standard for EV power management.
To fuel a faster, smoother transition to EVs and a sustainable SDV, Intel and SAE International announced a committee to deliver an automotive standard for Vehicle Platform Power Management (J3311). Intel will chair the committee. This will adopt advanced power management concepts from the PC industry, helping all EVs become more energy-efficient and sustainable.
The standards committee currently includes industry representation from Stellantis, HERE, and Monolithic Power Solutions (MPS). The committee is open to additional industry participation, with the goal of delivering the first draft standard within 12 to 18 months.
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