Vision processor specialist Ambarella wants auto manufacturers to "Forget 'smart' radars." Is that what carmakers want?
Radar point cloud. (Source: Ambarella)
What’s at stake?
Automakers are in transition. As more sensing, computing and connectivity infiltrate ADAS vehicles, tier ones and carmakers must figure out where to process raw sensory data, and whether sensor fusion should be performed with raw or pre-processed data: The edge or the central compute? Ambarella and NXP have diverging approaches.