After a patent dispute with Apple, Qualcomm began diversifying its business this year, Qualcomm in addition to entering the field of PC, but also began to involve the field of autonomous vehicles.
A spokesman for the Department of Motor Vehicles said today that it issued a license to Qualcomm on December 12 to allow the latter's car and three drivers to test self-driving cars on California roads.
Another giants into the field of automatic driving! Qualcomm autopilot road test approved Nakul Duggal, vice president of product management at Qualcomm, said Qualcomm has already begun testing Ford vehicles with these chips in San Diego County, Calif., In the seat of Qualcomm headquarters. In the future, Qualcomm will also be operating in Michigan, China, Germany , Italy and Japan for a similar test.
In addition, Doug also said in an interview: 'Of course we want to be a key player in the field of autopilot.' Doug talked about what Qualcomm will launch future autopilot products, Doug silence.
In fact, Qualcomm into the field of automatic driving is also expected to be as early as September of this year, Qualcomm introduced the 9150 C-V2X chip that allows cars and cars or semaphores and other infrastructure to communicate with each other.At that time, the official Said the technology can be used in conjunction with the autopilot chip to improve driving safety.
Another giants into the field of automatic driving! Qualcomm autopilot road test approved Then in October, Qualcomm announced that it would acquire NXP, the world's largest supplier of automotive chips, for $ 38 billion, a move the industry has sparked since it was the largest acquisition in the global semiconductor market.
There were analysts that Qualcomm acquired NXP is mainly planned to expand to the automotive chip market, and in the mobile, automotive, Internet of Things, security, radio frequency, network and other fields to obtain industry leadership.Golton announced in October last year, will be 38 billion US dollars Buy NXP Semiconductors.
It should be noted that the transaction has not been completed yet.
