Samsung’s auto chip to power Hyundai Motor’s infotainment debuting in 2025

Samsung said on Wednesday it will supply its latest automotive processors to Hyundai Motor for the auto giant’s new in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system to be launched in 2025.

This is the South Korean tech giant’s first collaboration on automotive semiconductors with Hyundai Motor, one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers.

The Exynos Auto V920 is Samsung’s third-generation automotive chip aimed at IVI systems.

The tech giant said its CPU packs ten chip designer Arm’s latest cores for autonomous driving, which boasts 1.7 times the processing power compared to the previous generation.

Samsung said the Exynos Auto V920 also supports the latest high-performance, low-power memory chip LPDDR5, which allows it to manage up to six high-resolution displays and up to 12 camera sensors.

The company said the chip also has enhanced graphics__ its GPU core has twice the speed than before and AI performance that enhances the driver’s interaction with the visual presentation on the display as well as the car’s information.

According to Samsung, the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) is 2.7 times more powerful which allows the chip to support enhanced driver monitoring features such as better driver position and faster assessment of the car’s surroundings, increasing overall safety.

Samsung said that the Exynos Auto V920 also complies with the Automotive Safety Integrity Level B (ASIL-B) requirements set by the international automotive safety standard ISO 26262, that the chip detects faults in real-time to keep IVI systems safe and manages them.