High MIPS processor systems exclusively for autonomous self driving vehicles

There were two big product announcements recently for designing autonomous automotive/car driving systems, both from the leading semiconductor companies. Below are the details of both: 1. STMicroelectronics gets into the hot area of self driving vehicle electronics on its own without acquiring any other semiconductor or other electronics technology expert, but by smartly partnering with complementing technology companies. STMicroelectronics has developed EyeQ series of SOC chip exclusively for self driving cars. To go further advancement, Company is developing system on chip exclusively for autonomous vehicle in partnership with vision processor tech expert company called Mobileye. The new SOC they are developing is like a computer in a chip for self driving vehicles. EyeQ 5 to act as the central computer performing sensor fusion for Fully Autonomous Driving (FAD) vehicles starting in 2020. The SOC chip is named as EyeQ5 is expected to be sampled in first half of 2018. EyeQ5 its planned to be fabricated using semiconductor technology node of 10nm or below FinFET process. EyeQ5 to have eight multithreaded CPU cores coupled with eighteen cores of Mobileye's vision processors. EyeQ5 to perform 8x times better then the current 4th generation EyeQ4. The EyeQ5 to handle more than 12 Tera operations per second with in a power consumption of...