Digitimes reported that Apple Car seems to have chosen a route similar to Tesla’s by adopting a central centralized integrated operating system and working with a South Korean manufacturer to develop the sensor part required for automatic driving in the domain control unit (DCU).
It is not surprising that Apple chose a central centralized integrated operating system because currently, almost all intelligent electric vehicles’ EEA are evolving towards a centralized architecture. The news of cooperation with South Korean companies to develop DCU was not released before, indicating that Apple’s car-making project is working on the vehicle’s hardware architecture.
In March of this year, foreign media broke the news that the ABF substrate of Apple Car’s chip would be obtained from a South Korean company. Most of the ABF substrates for Apple’s M1 chip come from Unimicron.
ABF substrates are also members of the “chip shortage” wave, and various CPUs, GPUs, and servers require this material. Unimicron stated that due to the strong demand for high-performance computing chips from customers, its production capacity will be tight in the next five years.
However, in March of this year, the well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo stated that the Apple Car team had been disbanded for some time, and in order to achieve mass production in 2025, restructuring must be achieved within six months.
According to Bloomberg’s report in September 2021, Kevin Lynch replaced Doug Field as the project manager of Apple’s car project.
Lynch’s work experience has been very stable. He worked at Adobe for 17 years and served as CTO. In 2013, he joined Apple and has been responsible for the Apple Watch project and health business since then. Lynch’s main achievements at Apple are the development of WatchOS and a series of Apple software related to health (health apps in iOS devices).
Currently, according to known leaks, Apple’s car project has not yet entered the stage of hardware trial production, and in the short term, it may be difficult for us to see Apple’s own car information released.🔗Source: Digitimes; Day Star
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