Stefan Mileschin

Mercedes gets more AI high tech

Xilinx has entered very many automotive fields for the last twelve years and and had a huge success in the forward looking camera market. The company grew to more than 4.5 million units from zero in just six years, massively increasing numbers every year. Now Daimler AG, the company behind Mercedes Benz, has revealed that iy will work with Xilinx on an in-car system using Xilinx technology for artificial intelligence (AI) processing in automotive applications.

Powered by a Xilinx automotive platform consisting of system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices and AI acceleration software, the scalable solution will deliver high performance, low latency and best power efficiency for embedded AI in automotive applications today.

There are not many additional details about what exactly it will be working on, it is apparently too early for these details. Daimler AG recognized the Xilinx’s advancements and the fact that the company managed to ship 40 million cumulative automotive units to automakers and Tier 1 suppliers in the last twelve years. Some of their solutions like FPGA or Over the Air FPGA based silicon where hardware and software can be updated over the air are definitely unique compared to its competitors. You can simply add features to the hardware, something you cannot do in ASIC /SoC approach.

We spoke with Willard Tu, senior director about automotive who went into details how Low latency and high throughput of the FPGA are making big advantages over the GPU based solutions.

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