Ficosa and Indie Semiconductor, Inc. Partner on Ai-Based Automotive Camera Solutions for Enhanced Safety
January 04, 2024 at 09:00 am EST
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indie Semiconductor, Inc. and Ficosa have executed a collaboration agreement to develop and commercialize automotive camera solutions deploying neural network-based (NN) artificial intelligence (AI) processing. The partnership will leverage Ficosa's near decade-long expertise as a high-volume vision solution supplier, and indie's field-proven, proprietary vision processing technology to deliver breakthrough imaging and in-camera object detection performance, particularly for challenging edge sensing applications. The companies intend to sample the first smart camera solutions employing their combined technologies in 2024, and expect to ramp into volume production by 2025.
indie Semiconductor, Inc. offers automotive semiconductors and software solutions for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), driver automation, in-cabin, user experience (including connected car) and electrification applications. The Company is focused on edge sensors across multiple modalities spanning light detection and ranging (LiDAR), radar, ultrasound and computer vision. It is an approved vendor to Tier 1 automotive suppliers and its platforms can be found in marquee automotive manufacturers around the world. It has design centers in Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Detroit, Michigan; San Francisco and San Jose, California; Cordoba, Argentina; Budapest, Hungary; Dresden, Frankfurt an der Oder, Munich and Nuremberg, Germany; Edinburgh, Scotland; Schlieren, Switzerland; Rabat, Morocco; Haifa, Israel; Quebec City and Toronto, Canada; Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan, and several locations throughout China. The Company is engaged subcontractors to manufacture its products.