Maruti Suzuki Planning to Use Snapdragon Elite Chips in Its Vehicles, Partners With Qualcomm

The new Snapdragon Elite automotive chip can be used in the upcoming vehicles of the country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki. The company has partnered with Qualcomm for this. It is being said that Snapdragon’s new automotive chip can provide advanced safety system, connected car technology and other features.

before this Qualcomm Had informed about tie-up with big automobile companies Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra. Last month, at the Snapdragon Summit held in Hawaii, USA, Qualcomm had announced two new chipsets for the automotive industry. The company has introduced Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride Elite as part of the Snapdragon Digital Chassis Solution portfolio. According to a report by SmartPrix, one of these chips can be used in Maruti Suzuki vehicles.

Snapdragon Cockpit Elite can provide advanced digital experience and Ride Elite chip supports automated driving capability. Qualcomm says automobile companies can combine both of these functions in a single chip. For this, these chips have a flexible architecture. Qualcomm has said that both these chips will be available for sampling next year. Earlier the company had said that the new chipset is more powerful than Intel’s processor. It offers 162 percent faster CPU performance than Intel Core Ultra 7 Series 2 Peak at iso-power. In the last few years, the manufacturing of automobile industry was affected due to shortage in supply of chips. However, this situation has improved.

These chips can support features like infotainment system, Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), driver monitoring and lane and parking assistance in vehicles. Oryon CPU, Adreno GPU and Hexagon NPU have been installed in both these chips. Using these processors can provide up to three times faster CPU and Artificial Intelligence (AI) performance. These chips support more than 40 multimedia sensors. These include up to 20 high-resolution cameras for 360-degree coverage. They use AI related tools for optimized images.