These are exciting times for transportation. Industry experts predict that on-demand ride sharing will substantially replace car ownership. Hybrid and electrical vehicles are growing in popularity in response to environmental regulations and governmental policy. The “connected car” is seamlessly taking over our “connected life.” The race is on for fully autonomous vehicles, with carmakers offering ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) features that reduce accidents and casualties.
Backed by proven high-volume manufacturing, TSMC’s Automotive Platform provides a comprehensive spectrum of technologies and services to meet the automotive industry’s unique semiconductor challenges. TSMC’s N7A customers successfully qualified products for automotive applications; these products were used in volume production at several Auto OEMs starting 2023.
- Advanced CMOS technologies for compute-intensive ADAS applications
- RF technologies for 5G connectivity and millimeter wave (mmWave) radar
- Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technologies for next generation micro-controller unit (MCU) and artificial intelligence (AI) memory
- CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) technologies for high sensitivity CMOS image/Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors
- BCD technologies for power-management ICs (PMIC)
- Automotive IP ecosystems
- Automotive Service Packages
All TSMC Automotive Platform process technologies are validated by TSMC automotive criteria based on AEC-Q100 specifications.
Three megatrends for future vehicles: Safer, Greener and Smarter
Electronic components drive 80% of today’s automotive innovation. Applications in intelligence, connectivity, sensing and control are evolving to keep pace with the growing complexity in safer, greener and smarter vehicle design. Every new application requires more semiconductor components, constantly increasing the overall semiconductor content in today’s advanced vehicles.
