LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. tech giant Qualcomm unveiled its new autonomous driving platform at the ongoing 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
The new Snapdragon Ride platform is one of the automotive industry's most advanced, scalable and open autonomous driving solutions, which consists of the family of Snapdragon Ride Safety system-on-chips, Snapdragon Ride Safety Accelerator and Snapdragon Ride Autonomous Stack, according to Qualcomm.
The platform aims to address the complexity of autonomous driving by leveraging its high-performance, power-efficient hardware, industry-leading artificial intelligence technologies and pioneering autonomous driving stack to deliver a comprehensive, cost and energy efficient systems solution, said Qualcomm.
Snapdragon Ride is expected to be available for pre-development to automakers and tier-1 suppliers in the first half of 2020. Qualcomm expected Snapdragon Ride-enabled vehicles to be in production in 2023.
"We have spent the last several years researching and developing our new autonomous platform and accompanying driving stack, identifying challenges and gathering insights from data analysis to address the complexities automakers want to solve," said Nakul Duggal, senior vice president of product management of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
The annual tech show, which runs from Tuesday to Friday, drew more than 4,500 exhibitors from over 160 countries.
Nearly 20,000 new transformative tech products are on show, encompassing 5G connectivity, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, smart cities and resilience, sports, robotics and more.
