GM is working with seven chip suppliers on three new households of microcontrollers that may cut back the variety of distinctive chips on future autos by as much as 95%, North America President Mark Rees stated.
see imagesNew microcontrollers shall be inbuilt excessive portions — as a lot as 10 million models a yr, Rees stated.
General Motors goals to deal with the worldwide semiconductor scarcity with new designs manufactured in North America, President Mark Reiss stated Thursday. Rees instructed an investor convention that GM is working with seven chip suppliers on three new households of microcontrollers that may cut back the variety of distinctive chips on future autos by as much as 95%.
Supplier companions embrace Qualcomm, STM, TSMC, Renesas, NXP, Infineon and On Semi. Most of GM’s future investments in new microcontroller households “will flow to the US and Canada,” Rees stated.
Automakers around the globe are going through year-round shortages of the semiconductor chips that management every little thing from heated seats to infotainment programs.
New microcontrollers will now combine a number of capabilities operated by particular person chips, which is not going to solely cut back price and complexity
In some instances these shortages trigger GM and different automakers to construct, then park, unfinished autos till the lacking chips lastly arrive and might be put in. In different instances, autos are being delivered to prospects with out a number of the normal services.
With the appearance of recent electrical autos and sophisticated driver help programs like UltraCruise, “we see our semiconductor requirements more than double in the new few years,” Rees stated.
The new microcontrollers will now consolidate many capabilities dealt with by particular person chips, which is not going to solely cut back price and complexity, however “promote quality and predictability,” he stated.
New microcontrollers shall be inbuilt excessive portions — as a lot as 10 million models a yr, Rees stated.
A GM spokesperson instructed Reuters that the corporate is making an attempt to “develop an ecosystem that is more flexible, more scalable, and always there to meet our needs.”
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Earlier on Thursday, Ford Motor Company and chip maker GlobalFoundries Inc. stated they plan to work collectively to spice up provide for the automaker’s autos and the broader US auto business.
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