Qualcomm showed at CES car future 2020

— a trend 2020

January the new year. This means that already completed another annual international consumer electronics show where many companies . Thousands of vendors shared their products and accomplishments with more than 170 000 participants from 150 countries. The exhibition is remembered for unusual devices, but before the official part, many corporations have managed to make several important announcements.

Of Course, first and foremost, we are interested in the largest technology giants, especially the chip manufacturers. Yet they form the mobile and desktop trends for the coming year. For example, at CES, Qualcomm showed 2020 audio technology, aptX Voice to improve speech quality for voice calls, as well as share their achievements in the field of automotive industry, 5G and Snapdragon processors.

What is Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride

One of the novelties of CES 2020 from Qualcomm Technologies has become a new platform for road transport Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride. It is an innovative solution for the Autonomous driving and facilitate the driver while driving. It is based on productive hardware and software, artificial intelligence technology and single-chip system Snapdragon SoC Ride.

Snapdragon Ride provides solutions for multiple systems including emergency braking, detection of road signs, retaining strip, self Parking, and fully Autonomous driving. The latter can be widely used for unmanned taxi and delivery using robotic vehicles. Platform primarily designed for electric vehicles, and to reduce the cost and improve the reliability of a passive or air cooling. This allows to simplify the design and increase the range of vehicle mileage.

the driver assistance System can help in emergencies

This is not just a futuristic technology — in the first half of this year, Snapdragon Ride will be available to certain car manufacturers. Mass production of cars with the new platform is expected in 3 years.

Qualcomm Car-to-Cloud — even less wires

Yes, this time Qualcomm has paid a lot of attention automotive innovations. The company provided service Car-to-Cloud for wireless update on-Board systems and new functions. With its help the car manufacturers will be able to remotely manage the status of onboard systems — for example, to upgrade the machine to at any time enable the necessary features.

The Essence of the service that after the purchase the car was not obsolete — at the request of the owner, the manufacturer will be able to suggest new features during the life of the car. These include, for example, updating a multimedia system.

quite Soon the car will be no wires needed

Of Course, all this will be provided for an additional cost, but adding new features will still be cheaper than buying a new car. Automakers will be able to take into account consumer technology trends, activating functions using the wireless modernization of vehicles. It is planned that the new service Car-to-Cloud will be available in the 2nd quarter of 2020.

Dual-MAC Wi-Fi — a new chip for cars

We've learned that everywhere has wireless Internet access, and cars are no exception. Many spend in traffic jams for several hours a day, and connected to them would not be amiss. This was developed QCA6595AU chip from Qualcomm which is designed especially for in car Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

The New chip supports the simultaneous transmission in the range of 5 and 2.4 GHz, as well as high-quality transmission over Bluetooth. Connect up to 32 clients, to increase security protocols are WPA3. Besides the fact that it can be used to access the network, the chip will be used for vehicle diagnostics, software updates or automatic check-in at the car wash. The chip allows to determine the location of the machine with accuracy up to one meter — here I must say thanks to 5.1 Bluetooth and Bluetooth Smart Long Range, determine the angle of signal arrival and angle of departure of the signal.

There are chips for smartphones, and there are for cars

Chips from Qualcomm are already widely used by many manufacturers, developing top-end infotainment applications. It is expected that the commercial supply of QCA6595AU will start in August, so by the end of 2020 and at the beginning of 2021 we will see the cars, where will be installed the new chip.

aptX Voice — "clean" conversations without wires

But this novelty is applies not only to cars but to all device platforms Qualcomm Snapdragon Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 and 765. Qualcomm Voice aptX can improve the quality of speech transmission with high resolution over wireless Bluetooth connections. That is, when using a Bluetooth headset, the interlocutor can hear you even better than now, without interference and unnecessary noise.

AptX Voice improves voice quality, providing crystal clear voice with a sampling rate of 32 KHz. Most likely, the majority of wireless headphones in the next few years will get support for a new codec, because many people use them as a headset. aptX has already played a significant role in improving the qualitymusic when listening to it via Bluetooth, it's time to do the same for telephone conversations.

It is Expected that the codec will not only increase the comfort of communication, but will also improve overall sound quality while reducing the load on the person doing the talking. This function is useful in the control centers.

New instrument panels for cars

With the emergence of different systems for the care and entertainment of the driver with multiple cameras and sensors, have significantly increased the amount of information that the driver receives from the car. For all that need a convenient and informative instrument panel which will give all important data in a usable form without distracting the driver from traffic. Therefore, DENSO, together with Qualcomm has developed a digital system for the next generation using information and communication technology Qualcomm Technologies, including the latest semiconductor and software solutions for smartphones.

Now most automakers are switching to a digital dashboard

The company Also plan to work together to create the architecture for monitoring driver state, authenticating the driver and passengers, as well as improved ergonomics of the display.

The Basic idea — to improve the ergonomics of the integrated onboard systems and onboard infotainment services. A digital system could appear in cars within the next few years.

This is one of the main novelties that Qualcomm has pleased the visitors of the exhibition CES 2020. In addition, the company announced to continue cooperation with General Motors: she plans to continue joint work on the digital instrument panel, telematics systems and driver assistance systems (ADAS). Qualcomm also introduced a complete platform for on-Board and roadside units "smart" transport infrastructure.

Unlike many other new products that were shown at CES 2020, these will not just see the light — these technologies the coming years will be to use manufacturers of vehicles and mobile devices.