Robert Bosch is a major supplier of automotive components, and among its customers in the direction of automotive electronics for active driver assistance systems, you can find out the Californian Waymo and neighboring Tesla, which is separated from Google. By the way, Bosch itself is NVIDIA partner , so that cooperation in this area is global in all respects.
Bosch expects by the results of the current year to increase the supplies volume of automobile radars by 60%, and optical sensors for driver assistance systems - by 80%. The revenue of the core business unit of Bosch will grow by 7%, and the company estimates its own order portfolio for components of such systems at 3.5 billion euros. The number of developers and engineers in this direction Bosch is going to increase by 4,000 people, bringing the size of the profile division to 48,000 specialists.
From the geographical markets Bosch is most attracted by the Asian, where there is a growing demand for compact electric vehicles and electric scooters. The company calls on the European authorities to calm down the hysteria about the harm caused to nature by modern diesel engines. Even completely replace them with gasoline, according to Bosch representatives, the average greenhouse gas emissions from each car will even increase by 16 grams.
The competing company Continental, which also has long been developing various systems of active assistance to the driver, simultaneously announced the purchase of a minority stake in the young French company EasyMile to expand cooperation in the development of sensors for automotive autopilot systems. In the sphere of Continental interest is the creation of systems that help to drive a car on the highway and park it in the city. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.