The recent Ambarella-Oculii deal raises questions about where in the vehicle sensor fusion should take place and who ultimately “owns” the sensor fusion stack.
Ambarella Buys Oculii (Image: Ambarella)
What’s at stake?
Ambarella’s acquisition of Oculii brings the vision processor company a suite of radar perception algorithms. If Ambarella succeeds in executing vision-plus-radar sensor fusion in a single system-on-chip (SoC), it could raise the bar — and industry expectations — on what a vision chip can do. That, in turn, raises questions about where in the vehicle sensor fusion should take place and who ultimately “owns” the sensor fusion stack.