Toshiba Semiconductor & Storage Corporation has been Japan's largest semiconductor manufacturer and the only Japanese company to rank among the world's top ten semiconductor companies. Its NAND memory business unit is the world's second largest NAND chip manufacturer after Samsung.
Toshiba Electronics is currently doing car perception. In the past, there was a CMOS sensor division, but it was sold to SONY. How to perform image processing (algorithm software + VisconTI processor) is what Toshiba is paying attention to. Toshiba used to work on chips such as TV chips and PlayStaTIon game consoles, and has accumulated decades of experience in image processing.
At the Shanghai Electronics Fair in Munich, the Toshiba booth is divided into four sections: Automotive, Power and Storage, Industrial Control, and IoT. In automotive applications, Toshiba exhibited solutions such as in-vehicle display controllers, ADAS, and electronic toll collection systems (ETC).
Although the lane keeping function can be done by many manufacturers, the degree of recognition is a key. Difficulties in the development are in the evening and at night, as well as pedestrians and electric bicycles (because many electric cars do not drive lights at night, the speed is also very fast). It is expected that the local car will come out one or two of this car at the end of this year or early next year. Further, a demo (demo) car with sensory + brakes will be launched in the second half of next year.
In 2015, Toshiba has introduced a brake + millimeter wave radar system through Japan Denso. Toshiba only provides chips, and generally does not provide a system. In China, Toshiba is biased towards the basics and works primarily with domestic Tier 1 suppliers.
Toshiba's VisconTI is a hardware accelerator that reduces development time. Compared to software, hardware acceleration is faster and software running is slower.
So why can Toshiba do hardware accelerators? Because Toshiba has accumulated decades of image processing chips. VisconTI has been in development since 2002 and is now the fourth generation. The difficulty is: the summer car is very hot, the chip needs to dissipate heat, so it is necessary to reduce the amount of calculation, and complete the calculation in the case of low frequency/power consumption, so the hardware accelerator is used. Of course, according to some chip companies' expectations, the future frequency may be improved, such as driverless. The current solution is to put the server (non-car level) in the car, but this is only an experiment. I am afraid that mass production is a bit difficult. As a semiconductor manufacturer, Toshiba and other companies are still trying to reduce the frequency. "If you don't have the power on the car, you will use it on ADAS."
Regarding the instrument driver chip Capricon, "If you don't have a LCD screen in the car this year and next, you may not be able to sell it!... Now even the 100,000 or even 70,000 price car has the demand for TFT-LCD screen." Tan Hong Said. Toshiba and Geely Bo Yue have cooperated to launch digital instrument solutions. It is expected that there will be three or four local cars equipped with virtual instruments based on Capricon drives this year. At present, the 6-inch 8-inch screen is the mainstream. There are two major challenges in 12 inches or more: cost and heat dissipation. For example, some manufacturers' solutions have a weight of 5 kg! The curved screen is also appearing now, and the challenge is the capacity of the screen. In terms of quantity, it will develop to multi-function screens, such as full-virtual screen instruments and central control integration, because the processor capacity is greatly improved.
Regarding trends, can future mobile navigation screens be placed on full virtual dashboards? It is estimated that high-end chips will have the ability to be realized in the next year or so. In addition, in the future, automakers may have a dual-screen trend: one screen for navigation, one screen for entertainment, and the central control will be weakened.
Regarding unmanned driving in China, since there is no unmanned standard in the industry, there is no way to talk about the recognition rate of people and vehicles. However, there are four or five companies in China that are doing test demonstration areas, such as Chongqing University and SAIC in Shanghai. Jiading established a test base.
Toshiba is very confident in China's autonomous driving, because BAT does not take the usual path, using the latest Internet technology, in addition, BYD, SAIC, Geely, Changan and other car manufacturers are also doing research and development, it is expected that within a year or two will appear closer to reality car.
In terms of applications, driverlessness may be introduced from special applications in the industry, such as logistics vehicles on highways (developed due to domestic e-commerce), and there are four or five unmanned demonstration zones in the country, entering the home for unmanned driving. Explore.
Domestic BAT is mainly engaged in artificial intelligence and deep learning. Visconti currently has only the second and fourth generation products, and will launch the fifth generation next year. It is expected to have the opportunity to cooperate with BAT next year.
Flexible Solar Panel,Flexible Solar Panels,Flex Solar Panels,Solar Panel Flexible
Shengtian New Energy (Shenzhen)Â Co., Ltd. , https://www.stenergysolar.com