Major microprocessors developers, faced with slowing growth of the market of smart phones now look with hope to the automotive electronics market. Among them is MediaTek company , as EE Times website explains with reference to the statements of the Vice-President of the Taiwanese developer. If rival Qualcomm finds support in the automotive sector due to the absorption of NXP Semiconductors, MediaTek prefers to grow in a natural way at the expense of its own resources.
It stated that MediaTek will not settle for the role of supplier of microprocessors for on-board multimedia systems for cars. Experience of cooperation with IBM in the area of the creation of telecommunications solutions MediaTek will be used when creating the radar for automobiles, helping them to recognize obstacles. Unlike its competitors, MediaTek just going to abandon the use of compounds of silicon and germanium, as it is expensive. Radar solutions MediaTek will use CMOS layout with a high degree of integration, and samples of similar products will be delivered in the current half-year. Moreover, MediaTek already have a large customer from among automakers. Radar solutions MediaTek will differ modest power consumption - no more than 2-3 W for devices with short and medium-range action.
MediaTek ready to aim a blow at MobilEye piece of cake - a leading supplier of cameras for machine vision systems and processors are in the automotive market. Taiwanese developer is ready willingly to listen to the wishes of customers, providing them with greater access to the "raw data". It is known that differences over the division of powers in this area have become a formal reason for the break in relations between Tesla Motors and Mobileye. The company is ready to produce microprocessors MediaTek Camera "autopilot", using the principle of learning. Deliveries of the first samples of the corresponding products MediaTek will begin next year. The company is developing on the "road" towards 2014, they are now busy staff of approximately 100 professionals. Not all of them, however, are engineers, but the allocation of appropriate resources is already talking about the seriousness of the intentions of MediaTek to gain a foothold in this market.