MediaTek announces First Dimensity cockpit solutions in partnership with Nvidia | Top Vip News

At GTC, Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, MediaTek announced the first Dimensity Auto Cockpit SoCs that are a result of its previously announced partnership with Nvidia. According to MediaTek, the new Dimensity CV-1, CM-1, CY-1 and CX-1 will target entry-level in-vehicle experiences with the CV-1 to premium in-vehicle experiences with the CX-1. The new products will feature a combination of Arm V9-A CPU cores, an HDR image signal processor (ISP), a multi-audio DSP, multi-camera support, AI processing capabilities, and an Nvidia RTX GPU. Additionally, the platform will be compatible with Nvidia’s Drive OS software platform. According to the company, the new SoCs will provide a safe and entertaining experience with support for multiple cameras, displays, audio formats, in addition to the latest graphics capabilities and generative artificial intelligence applications. While technical details of the products are limited at this time, it is the mere announcement of the products that heralds important milestones for the industry.

First, the announcement indicates positive progress of the partnership to produce a family of products using a chiplet strategy in less than a year since the partnership was announced. While the use of chiplets is becoming the standard for high-end processors and accelerators, this is noteworthy for more conventional embedded/IoT-centric applications. However, Tirias Research believes that the use of chiplets will become more common in these types of applications towards the end of the decade as the UCIe chiplet standards are adopted, test standards for chiplets are established among semiconductor foundries and volume production reduces the cost of packaging.

Chiplets will enable faster development of highly differentiated chips, as is the case with the Dimensity Auto Cockpit product family. The Dimensity Auto Cockpit products combined Arm’s licensed intellectual property (IP), MediaTek’s IP and design expertise, and Nvidia’s graphics and software expertise without the need to have everything on a single chip. Tirias Research predicts that this could initially reduce time from concept to product testing by more than 50% from current timelines, and could be even more as the use of chiplets from multiple vendors and foundries becomes more common. In this case, all chiplets are produced by one foundry, TSMC, which eliminates the challenge of having multiple foundries.

Another significance of this announcement is what it represents for Nvidia’s ever-changing business model. While Nvidia has offered GPU IP for licensing in the past, there were no takers. This may open the doors to leveraging Nvidia’s semiconductor intellectual property, especially when combined with the company’s leading software platforms and core AI models, for other market segments and applications.

The bottom line is what this means not only for MediaTek, but also for the rest of the semiconductor industry. With the use of licensed IP combined with chiplets, the barriers to entering new markets or segments are decreasing, while the ability to differentiate between products is increasing. There is no doubt that OEMs across all industry segments will look to take advantage of the ability to customize chips for specific applications. This allows for greater product differentiation as well as the ability to pack more semiconductor content into a single package for greater performance efficiency while reducing system complexity and cost.

While we await additional details on the new Dimensity Auto Cockpit SoCs and other Dimensity Auto Drive, Connect and Component products, the announcement marks a milestone for the MediaTek-Nvidia partnership and the industry as it evolves around the changing dynamics of design and manufacturing. .

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