tate battery technology and other weight-saving technologies. Wise: Intelligent techs such as SDV, SDV-centric HW, ADAS, autonomy, OTA and leverage Asimo robotics & GM AV experience. Honda is developing new SoC(s) with Renesas. Focus is low-power SDV SoC, AI accelerator, chiplet architecture, using TSMC 3 nm auto process. Auto OEMs at CES 2025 Key Information Other Information Honda •Honda 0 Concept: 2 BEVs: Saloon & SUV •Tech: SDV, ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/02/19

-generation vehicle technology, and are positioned as essential technologies to differentiate Toyota from other companies. In February 2022, Denso announced that it would make a minority investment of about USD 350 million (about JPY 40 billion) in Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), TSMC's semiconductor contract manufacturing subsidiary in which TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited) owns a majority stake. This...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/03

nal 3,600 square meters of ultra-modern cleanroom space will be built on site, increasing the total cleanroom area in Reutlingen from approximately 35,000 square meters today to more than 44,000 square meters by the end of 2025. In August 2023, Bosch, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC), Infineon Technologies AG, and NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced plans to jointly invest in European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company GmbH (E...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/19

CU box, reducing complexity and speeding up development efforts. Reducing materials and weight will also contribute to sustainability and longer range. S32N55 processor: Each vehicle function can be software updated individually. First automotive-grade 5nm technology (4x arm Cortex-R52 CPUs, TSMC manufacturing); the CPU cores inside the SoC can be configured in pairs to operate in lockstep, or separately to execute code independently. ©...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/06/03

ufacturing facility into a SiC semiconductor production and testing facility. Bosch established a new semiconductor test center in Malaysia. In Europe, the company announced plans to invest in the European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC), Infineon Technologies AG (Infineon), and NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) to build a new semiconductor chip plant in Germany.   ZF: Development o...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/01/19

to current vehicles with an internal combustion engine according to a study by the management consulting firm AlixPartners [2], contributing to the fact that capacities will not be sufficient to meet the entire demand of the automotive industry. Even though the world’s largest contract chip maker TSMC announced in summer 2022 that it was for the first time building up new capacities for semiconductor generations that are urgently needed by carm...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/06/19

-generation vehicle technology, and are positioned as essential technologies to differentiate Toyota from other companies. In February 2022, Denso announced that it would make a minority investment of about USD 350 million (about JPY 40 billion) in Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), TSMC's semiconductor contract manufacturing subsidiary in which TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited ) owns a majority stake. Thi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/06/08

ing a new battery plant in the U.S. with LG Energy Solution Ltd. and in Japan with GS Yuasa Corporation (GS Yuasa); in China, it is strengthening its partnership with CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.). It will also collaborate with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC) in semiconductor procurement.   At the same time, based on the concept of "software-defined mobility," the development of software will be acce...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/06/02

ports have pointed out the problem with the industry structure, that major automotive MCU manufacturers such as Renesas Electronics Corporation (Renesas), NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP), and Infineon Technologies AG (Infineon) are too dependent on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC) for their manufacturing. Although TSMC cannot be said to be particularly focused on the automotive field, the graph below shows how the company ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/01/24

emiconductor manufacturer enters a specific company's supply chain, it needs to be certified, which lengthens the certification period and increases costs. High tape-out costs According to foundries that focus on large-scale manufacturing, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TSMC) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), tape-out (i.e., final design) costs at the MPW (Multi Project Wafer) and PP (P...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2023/01/18

July 20, 2022 that it will begin joint development of automotive SoCs with CARIAD, a VW subsidiary. The partnership covers the next generation of VW Group vehicles based on a unified and scalable software platform. SoC wafers will be manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Ltd. (TSMC), a leading semiconductor contract manufacturer. CARIAD receives SoCs from Qualcomm, but the joint development with VW and ST will not affect the...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/10/19

ndries Qualcomm and GlobalFoundries, a leading semiconductor contract manufacturer, will extend the partnership between the two companies through 2028, with an additional purchase of USD 4.2 billion in semiconductors. GlobalFoundries will expand its plant in New York state to increase production. TSMC The company is investing USD 12 billion to build a new plant in Arizona, which will produce state-of-the-art semiconductors starting in 2024. S...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/10/05

erformance of graphics processors or Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in particular. “Today’s semiconductors in CMOS technology, i.e. Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors, feature characteristic standard structural widths of 40 nm,” explains the ADAS expert, “but in Samsung’s or TSMC’s wafer factories, for example, 7-nm technology is already being used. This means a performance boost that enables AI-based algorithms in real ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/08/19

neration vehicle technology, and are positioned as essential technologies to differentiate Toyota from other companies.   In February 2022, Denso announced that it would make a minority investment of about USD 350 million (about JPY 40 billion) in Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), TSMC's semiconductor contract manufacturing subsidiary in which TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited ) owns a majority stake. Thi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/08/10

Vs Summary Semiconductor market headed for a downturn Current status of the automotive semiconductor market General remarks   The semiconductor market continues to grow on a global scale, and Japan as well has been active in attracting and investing in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC), including government-led efforts to attract TSMC factories to Japan. Nevertheless, the shortage of semiconductors has shown no signs of being r...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/08/03

OEMs, Tier-1 SuppliersSource: Compiled by METI based on data from Omdia   3 Step initiative for economic security (Step 1) Urgent strengthening of IoT semiconductor production infrastructure   In light of its position in terms of economic security and supply chain security, METI decided to invite TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited), the world's dominant and No. 1 foundry based in Taiwan, instead of a Japanese company, to ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/03/17

a's Geely Holding Group is expected to install the system in a new model scheduled to go into production in 2024 with the aim of achieving Level 4 capability. The EyeQ ULTRA SoC is designed by STMicroelectronics N.V. (STMicro) and manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC) with its 5nm process.   Mobileye was acquired by Intel in 2017 for USD 15.3 billion, and has been performing well since the acquisition, increa...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2022/02/08

A Study on Japan's Automotive Semiconductor Supply Chain Attracting TSMC plants, and policies to address the semiconductor shortage Summary Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Semiconductor and Digital Industrial Strategy” Japanese semiconductor manufacturers that lost their enthusiasm Attracting TSMC TSMC's Japanese customers are Sony and Renesas TSMC dependence is a problem in the automotive microcontroller market Outlook for the autom...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/11/05

Automotive semiconductors: CASE Trends by NVIDIA, Mobileye, and others IT Vendors Promoting EVs in Horizontal Specialization: Apple, Hon Hai, etc. Summary Trends in the automotive semiconductor market CASE and semiconductors The realization of autonomous driving: Waymo, Mobileye, Sony, and NVIDIA Vertical integration or horizontal specialization?: Tesla, Apple, Hon Hai, and TSMC Future players to watch in the automotive semiconductor industry: NV...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/08/23

rather than the latest technology. In other words, technology of a former age is commonly used. While 28 nanometer (nm) line widths are the norm for automotive processor ICs, Tesla GPUs use 14nm FinFET technology, which is two generations ahead. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSMC), a major Taiwanese IC manufacturing contractor, handled the manufacturing.   The net area of the IC is 260 square mm, and according to Tesla, i...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2021/07/02