Renesas Electronics Joins AVCC Consortium to Accelerate Development of Autonomous Vehicles

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a global supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that it has joined the AVCC (Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium) as a core member. Renesas Electronics works with automotive ecosystem leaders including vehicle manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers, and other semiconductor manufacturers to help solve the most significant challenges facing autonomous vehicles in the process of achieving mass production.

As the automotive industry continues to develop the Internet of Vehicles, cars are becoming smarter, more environmentally friendly and more affordable. Looking ahead, autonomous vehicles will use more complex and large-scale AI-driven software. Vehicle edge computing platforms will play a key role in achieving the required ultra-high performance computing while meeting power, heat dissipation, size and safety requirements. Therefore, developing a standardized technical framework is essential for sharing, reusing and gradually improving the development process driven by the automotive ecosystem.

On October 8, 2019, leading automotive and technology industry companies including Arm, Bosch, Continental, DENSO, General Motors, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors and Toyota jointly announced that they will join forces to help accelerate the large-scale delivery of safer and more affordable autonomous vehicles.

“To realize the mobility of the future, we must fully explore and define requirements that meet real-world applications, develop the corresponding technologies, and finally implement them in mass-produced vehicles,” said Masayasu Yoshida, Vice President of the Automotive System Development Business Unit at Renesas Electronics Corporation. “The AVCC Consortium plays an important role in realizing the mobility of the future, and we are honored to be a part of the construction of the vehicle edge computing framework, combining our popular and proven R-Car SoC with this new framework to jointly lead the development of autonomous vehicles.”

“The AVCC Consortium is pleased to welcome Renesas as a core member and looks forward to the unique technology and expertise they can bring as an automotive semiconductor supplier,” said Massimo Osella (General Motors), Chairman of the AVCC Consortium.