The SoCs will support ISO26262 functional safety product development, AEC-Q100 and IATF-16949 automotive quality and reliability requirements.

Socionext is addressing the performance and safety demands of the rapidly evolving automotive electronic systems required by Automotive OEMs.

“We are continuing our history of adopting TSMC’s leading-edge process technologies for automotive chip development” says Socionext evp Hisato Yoshida,  “with customers’ requirements for high levels of integration with multi-core CPU clusters, AI acceleration, image and video processing, high-speed interfaces, as well as security and functional safety support.”

“With our comprehensive automotive technology platform, Socionext can quickly harness the power of 3nm for the computing needed for ADAS and AD without compromising safety and reliability,” says Cliff  Hou, TSMC svp.

Socionext will start designing with the early release of N3A process known as N3AE, to enable an accelerated schedule to mass production of automotive-grade products.

Through early and close collaboration with TSMC, Socionext aims to be one of the first suppliers of high-performance and energy-efficient automotive products built on the N3A technology.