Featured Texas Instruments on ADS

Source: TI Press Release

ADAS technology enables cars to take actions similar to a driver – sensing weather conditions, detecting objects on the road – and make decisions in real time to improve safety. ADAS features can include automatic emergency braking, driver monitoring, forward collision warning and adaptive cruise control.

Collectively, this technology has the potential to prevent as many as 2.7 million collisions a year in the U.S. alone.
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The result was TI mmWave radar sensor, a high-frequency radar sensor the size of a coin. Its resolution can not only detect the presence of an obstacle, but also recognize the difference between a car and a pedestrian and fulfill the latest automotive safety standards, such as the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), on a single chip.
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Our FPD-Link™ serializers and deserializers, which transmit uncompressed video data within automotive systems, enable higher-resolution cameras for adaptive driver assistance systems and infotainment displays in the vehicle. This has helped proliferate camera safety features such as front-view camera for collision avoidance, pedestrian recognition, rear-view camera for backup protection and surround-view cameras for parking assistance.
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Bob Wilson

 

Well there remains a problem of software. But good hardware goes a long way. Make Linux device drivers (as my hand goes up) and the fun begins.

Bob Wilson

 

Source: Tesla Is Among the First To Adopt TSMC's N3P Manufacturing Process for HW5 Autopilot Chips - autoevolution

Tesla launched the Hardware 4 Autopilot computer earlier this year, but it's already working on the next-generation chips. The EV maker has been listed among the first companies to benefit from TSMC's most advanced 3 nm lithography process, called N3P.
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Rumors suggest that Tesla plans to utilize the N3P process for its next-generation self-driving chips. It's also apparent that Tesla placed a huge order, potentially turning it into one of TSMC's most important clients. The updated N3P process provides a 5% improvement in performance, up to 10% reduction in power consumption, and a slight increase in chip density compared with N3E, which is in production today​

Tesla was less impacted by the "Chip Shortage" because of their vertical integration. Tesla has fewer models of different chips and controls the software running on them. So Tesla is mostly decoupled from the suppliers who shutdown so much automotive manufacturing a year or two ago.

Bob Wilson