Dutch-based semiconductor manufacturer NXP have entered a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the field of connected vehicles. NXP design the chips embedded in vehicles from a large number of makers, and now they will design a new chip to aggregate data from a vehicle and transfer it to the cloud in an efficient and secure manner.
NXP Automotive Processing Executive VP Henri Ardevol says his company’s goal is to help their customers “accelerate their digital transformation by unlocking the value of vehicle data and leveraging services provided from the vehicle or the cloud”.
Providing a secure vehicle-to-cloud connectivity solution is essential for the next generation of cars that will be able to accommodate new services for automakers, their partners and customers. Collection of data in real time will allow the development of new use cases. For example, predictive maintenance solutions could be offered, avoiding having to completely change some parts and allowing manufacturers to improve their supply chain by anticipating certain needs.
Ardevol says “We see the opportunity to help automakers make meaningful improvements throughout the lifecycle of vehicles with new data from the vehicle and the ability to make continuous improvements with machine learning and updates via the cloud”.
Terms of the pact between AWS and NXP have not been made public.