Full profile interview
13 Mar 2023

Pontosense — Radars for In-Cabin Monitoring
In-cabin occupant detection will be growing rapidly over the next few years. Pontosense is one of the first to deploy a radar in-cabin monitoring system in a production vehicle. Vehicle safety bodies are now mandating the adoption of in-cabin occupant detection and classification systems and OEMs will be rushing to adopt systems like Pontosense's.
Full profile interview
23 Feb 2023

NXP Semiconductors: AI/ML Applications
NXP Semiconductors are a Netherlands-based designer and manufacturer of semiconductor chipsets. IDTechEx spoke with Ali Ors, Director of Global AI ML Strategy and Technologies for Edge Processing.
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Update interview
21 Feb 2023

HID Global
HID Global is a leading US supplier of secure identity products. HID Global is a group brand of Assa Abloy, a Swedish door and access control giant. IDTechEx interviewed Richard Aufreiter, VP Product Marketing at IDT, and Marcus Holgersson, Strategy & Business Development Director at IDT at HID Global, in February 2023.
20 Feb 2023

Three Reasons Why Autonomy Will Boost Automotive Semiconductor Markets
IDTechEx's new "Automotive Semiconductors 2023-2033" report provides a deep dive into the existing and emerging semiconductor technologies used in vehicles today and tomorrow. The report focuses on the areas of automation and electrification, explaining what semiconductor technologies are needed and how their growth is going to drive a 10-year CAGR of 9.4% in the automotive semiconductor market.
Full profile interview
2 Feb 2023

Plastic Omnium: Automotive Radar Built Into the Bumper
Plastic Omnium is a giant of automotive plastics, making many body panels for many OEMs. It has recognised that automotive radar is a key sensor in progressing the megatrend of automation. As such it has built the radar antennas directly into the bumper, which brings numerous benefits over incumbent radar design.
Update
1 Dec 2022

Plant-e
Plant-e is a Dutch company founded in 2013. It has developed a plant microbial fuel cell technology that generates electricity from plants. The electricity can be used to power devices such as lights, sensors, and internet of things devices.
Update
12 Aug 2022

Waymo: Autonomous Trucking
Waymo is one of the key players and leaders in both autonomous trucking and robotaxis. It has backing from Alphabet (parent company of Google). Waymo is running daily commercial trips (with a safety driver) for potential partners and expanding its fleet and operations ready for full autonomous missions.
Full profile interview
30 May 2022

Fusion Processing
Fusion Processing is an engineering consultancy working with autonomous technologies to improve vehicle and road safety. Fusion Processing has been involved in several trials around the UK and has accumulated more than 1.8 million kilometres of service so far.
Full profile interview: SWOT
11 Mar 2022

Smart Radar System: Radars for Multiple Industries
1 Mar 2022

In the Future Your Entire Car Could Be a Radar Antenna, Says IDTechEx
Radar miniaturization is one of the key trends that IDTechEx has identified in "Automotive Radar 2022-2042". There are several factors that are contributing towards this, such as moving from 24GHz to 77GHz which shrinks the antenna size. Or, transitioning from SiGe-BiCMOS based transceivers to Si-CMOS ones, which reduces the number of discrete computational components and shrinks the circuit board. So, with the size continuing to come down, IDTechEx asks, how small can it get?
Full profile interview
20 Jan 2022

Zadar Labs: Software-Defined Radars
The automotive radar market is rife with innovative technologies coming from start-ups. Zadar's contribution to the space is a re-imaging of the boundary between software and hardware. New Si-CMOS based componentry is making radar's much more flexible and facilitating on-the-fly, over-the-air updates that can continuously improve the radar's performance over the lifetime of the vehicle.
Full profile interview
16 Dec 2021

Uhnder: Digital Code Modulation Automotive Radar
Uhnder is a start up working on radar on chip technologies for automotive and other applications. Uhnder use a 28nm Silicon CMOS technology to construct a single chip with 192 virtual channels giving high imaging potential. Uhnder has also moved away from the widely frequency modulated continuous wave emission pattern in facour of digital code modulation, this brings increased performance and robustness to interference.
Innovation Map
30 Nov 2021

Radar Suppliers: Tier 1s and Start Ups
Innovation roadmap for the report 'Automotive Radar 2022-2042'.
Full profile interview
24 Nov 2021

GenesInk
GenesInk is a French SME that offers a range of conductive and semiconducting inks based on nanoparticles that are synthesized in-house. Targeted applications include EMI shielding, Human-Machine Interface, conductive busbars, antennas, sensors and transport layers in organic semiconducting devices. IDTechEx caught up with GenesInk to find out about the latest developments.
Full profile interview
3 Nov 2021

NXP: Automotive Radar Components
NXP are one of the largest suppliers of semiconductor products in the world. One of the ways it contributes to ADAS and autonomous automotive technologies is through its radar components. IDTechEx spoke to NXP about current technology and future trends in radar components at the 2021 ITS World Congress in Hamburg
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Update interview
27 Oct 2021

Quad Industries
Quad Industries is a Belgian contract manufacturer of printed electronics that also offers product development services. This profile is based on a presentation given by Quad Industries but hosted by IMEC as part of its 'Europractice webinar series', and includes details of some application examples.
Full profile interview
21 Oct 2021

Continental: Automotive Radar and LiDAR Suppliers
Continental are one of the largest automotive tier 1 suppliers, and one of the largest suppliers of radar for ADAS applications such as adaptive cruise control and automatic emergency braking. IDTechEx spoke to Continental at ITS World Congress 2021 in Hamburg.
Full profile interview
24 Aug 2021

Zadar
Zadar is a radar start-up specialising in next-generation SAE level 2+ applications.