AMD talks up car chips it hopes will join you for a ride some time soon
Just in time for CES, which has become just as much a car show as an electronics event in recent years, AMD has revealed its newest chips for the automotive market: a processor powered by a nearly five-year-old core architecture, and a 2.5-year-old FPGA with some Arm cores and AI accelerators baked in.
Of course, the key element to both chips is they've been qualified against a slew of automotive safety and reliability tests, which AMD explained takes time. As such, it's not all that surprising that the chip designer is using more mature silicon for this role.
While the chip may be new to the automotive market, the underlying design has been kicking around for years. Its six Zen 2 cores were introduced alongside the chip biz's 3000-series Ryzen and 2nd-gen Epyc processor families all the way back in 2019. Even so, those cores only made their way into AMD's embedded processor family with the V2000 three and a half years ago.
The chip also features AMD's Vega 7 integrated GPU, which is based on a graphics architecture that first showed up in 2017. The standalone processor features seven compute units and will support up to four 4K displays. However, for automakers that need even more displays or faster graphics, the chip can be expanded with much more modern discrete mobile graphics.
Despite its age, AMD claims it's "the first x86 auto-qualified processor family to offer the same PC-like experience" to drivers. $Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$
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