Silicon Valley Business Journal, Reuters reported on the 8th, the current car built-in chips more and more used to download maps or car entertainment system information.After the emergence of the future 5G, networking car will surge, 5G network speed 10 times the current network, able to link cars, smart phones, drones, etc., is estimated to come out in 2020.
Tristan Gerra, a senior semiconductor analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., estimates that only 12 million of the 90 million cars produced this year have access to the Internet, though this number will soar and it is estimated that 80 million cars will be networked each year in the future.
Now that the connected car is dominated by Intel and Nvidia, Intel avails itself of drive-assist system vendor Mobileye into the automotive chip market, while Nvidia manufactures the Tesla Driver Assistance System GPU.
Qualcomm plans to acquire NXP Semiconductors and NXP to produce automotive entertainment system chips and camera systems before Broadcom proposed a merger with Broadcom, a Qualcomm-based company that is able to pick up Qualcomm and NXP Semiconductors, IHSMarkit chief automotive technology analyst Egil Juliussen pointed out that if Broadcom successfully acquired Qualcomm, and eat NXP, Broadcom, Qualcomm, NXP, the merger will create a strong new competitor in the automotive chip market, is expected to become the market Third, hot pursuit of Intel, Nvidia.
Karl Ackerman, an analyst at Cowen and Co., said Broadcom and NXP will hold most of the high-end parts of smartphones in command of the 5G communications standard, one of the keys to networking cars and networking.
Broadcom Decides Qualcomm's $ 103 Billion Offer for M & A to Expect to Be the Largest Merger in Tech Industry Broadcom's proposal to set Qualcomm at $ 70 a share, after the merger, will take hold of the handset Chip 40% market share.
Co-Communications quoted U.S. media as saying on the 3rd on the 3rd that Broadcom's acquisition of Qualcomm will amount to more than $ 100 billion, according to affiliates, and Broadcom will be the second only to Intel, South Korea's Samsung The world's third-largest semiconductor maker, will have a high market share in the handset parts market, with Hock Tan, the chief executive of Apple Computer, a long-established player in the United States, widely known for adopting aggressive acquisition strategies.