NXP Semiconductors N.V., Eindhoven, Netherlands, announces the acquisition of OmniPHY, San Jose, Calif., a provider of automotive Ethernet subsystem technology, supporting NXP’s plans to deliver the next-generation of data transfer solutions to carmakers. The companies’ technology synergies will center on 1.25-28Gbps PHY designs and 10-, 100- and 1000BASE-T1 Ethernet in advanced processes. OmniPHY has begun to translate 1000BASE-T1 Ethernet for the automotive space.
Current plans for next-generation vehicles call for eight or more cameras, high definition radar, lidar, and V2X capability, all of which generate steep data challenges for current car networks. These requirements, combined with the modern vehicle’s need to offload data to enable the new business opportunities of the connected car, will soon make terabyte levels of data processing commonplace. These driving systems will require gigabit data speeds and beyond.
“One of the vexing questions of the Autonomous Age is how to move data around the car as fast as possible,” said Ian Riches, executive director in the Strategy Analytics Global Automotive Practice. “Cameras and displays will ramp the number of high-speed links in the car to 150 million by 2020 and by 2030 autonomous car systems will aggressively drive that number to 1.1 billion high-speed links.”
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
