随着全球自动驾驶汽车技术竞争的持续升温,英特尔旗下自动驾驶技术公司Mobileye在本周一获得一项重要胜利。
该公司表示,已与全球销量第四的汽车公司福特达成合作协议,此后将为福特的全球产品线提供EyeQ感应技术套件。
福特北美区的首席运营官丽莎•德雷克在一份声明中说:“Mobileye优秀的软件和传感技术将为福特的辅助驾驶系统提供支持,并让客户对福特汽车充满信心。”
但是福特尚未完全实现自动驾驶功能。这份合作协议涵盖了碰撞警告、自动车道保持和智能自适应巡航控制等系统。这类系统仍然需要驾驶员保持对道路的注意力,它们仅被归类为1级和2级自动驾驶技术。允许司机目光离开道路的3级技术还没有包括在内,更不用说4级与5级。
Mobileye的竞争对手众多,从芯片制造商英伟达到谷歌旗下的自动驾驶子公司Waymo,再到资金充裕的初创公司,比如Argo AI。这些还没有包括像特斯拉这样自力更生的汽车制造商,以及苹果和亚马逊这样尚未展示自己产品的大型科技公司。
本周一,英特尔股价午盘上涨1%,福特股价下跌3%。但受新冠疫情影响,投资者对汽车行业的迅速复苏并没有十足信心。
福特在本周一的声明中还表示,将在下一代汽车中采用Mobileye的芯片、传感器和软件,包括最畅销的F-150皮卡以及新型电动SUV野马Mach-E。虽然福特的合作伙伴没有透露合作的财务细节,但福特汽车将在相关车辆上显示Mobileye的名称与徽标。
英特尔于2017年以150亿美元收购了以色列计算机科学家阿农•沙舒亚的创意产品Mobileye。如今,该技术部门是英特尔增长最快的部门之一,第一季度收入增长22%,达到2.54亿美元。但这对英特尔来说仍然是小部分收益,该公司的个人电脑与服务器芯片业务在本季度带来170亿美元的收入。而Mobileye的营收为8800万美元,增长了29%,与个人电脑和服务器77亿美元的营收相比相形见绌。(财富中文网)
编译:于佳鑫
随着全球自动驾驶汽车技术竞争的持续升温,英特尔旗下自动驾驶技术公司Mobileye在本周一获得一项重要胜利。
该公司表示,已与全球销量第四的汽车公司福特达成合作协议,此后将为福特的全球产品线提供EyeQ感应技术套件。
福特北美区的首席运营官丽莎•德雷克在一份声明中说:“Mobileye优秀的软件和传感技术将为福特的辅助驾驶系统提供支持,并让客户对福特汽车充满信心。”
但是福特尚未完全实现自动驾驶功能。这份合作协议涵盖了碰撞警告、自动车道保持和智能自适应巡航控制等系统。这类系统仍然需要驾驶员保持对道路的注意力,它们仅被归类为1级和2级自动驾驶技术。允许司机目光离开道路的3级技术还没有包括在内,更不用说4级与5级。
Mobileye的竞争对手众多,从芯片制造商英伟达到谷歌旗下的自动驾驶子公司Waymo,再到资金充裕的初创公司,比如Argo AI。这些还没有包括像特斯拉这样自力更生的汽车制造商,以及苹果和亚马逊这样尚未展示自己产品的大型科技公司。
本周一,英特尔股价午盘上涨1%,福特股价下跌3%。但受新冠疫情影响,投资者对汽车行业的迅速复苏并没有十足信心。
福特在本周一的声明中还表示,将在下一代汽车中采用Mobileye的芯片、传感器和软件,包括最畅销的F-150皮卡以及新型电动SUV野马Mach-E。虽然福特的合作伙伴没有透露合作的财务细节,但福特汽车将在相关车辆上显示Mobileye的名称与徽标。
英特尔于2017年以150亿美元收购了以色列计算机科学家阿农•沙舒亚的创意产品Mobileye。如今,该技术部门是英特尔增长最快的部门之一,第一季度收入增长22%,达到2.54亿美元。但这对英特尔来说仍然是小部分收益,该公司的个人电脑与服务器芯片业务在本季度带来170亿美元的收入。而Mobileye的营收为8800万美元,增长了29%,与个人电脑和服务器77亿美元的营收相比相形见绌。(财富中文网)
编译:于佳鑫
As the battle to supply the global auto industry with technology for self-driving vehicles heats up, Intel’s Mobileye notched a big win on Monday.
The company said it had struck a deal with Ford, the fourth-largest car company in the world by volume, to supply current versions of its EyeQ camera-based gear and software (with some tweaks) across Ford’s global product line.
“By customizing Mobileye’s excellent software and sensing technology, Ford’s great driver-assist features will continue to evolve and provide customers with confidence on the road throughout the life of their vehicles,” Lisa Drake, chief operating officer for Ford in North America said in a statement.
But Ford isn’t leaping entirely into the self-driving future quite yet. The deal covers systems like collision warning, automatic lane keeping, and adaptive cruise control. Those kinds of systems, which require the driver to maintain their attention on the road, are categorized only as Level 1 and Level 2 self-driving technology. Level 3 technology, which enables drivers to take their eyes off the road, isn’t yet included, let alone Levels 4 and 5, enabling cars to drive without human interaction.
Mobileye is competing with a horde of rivals, from chipmaker Nvidia to Google’s Waymo unit to well-funded startups like Argo AI. And that’s not to mention carmakers with their own efforts, like Tesla, and Big Tech players yet to show their wares, like Apple or Amazon (which bought self-driving startup Zoox last month).
Shares of Intel gained 1% in midday trading on Monday. Ford shares lost 3% as investors fretted that the auto industry would not recover quickly from the current pandemic-induced sales slowdown.
In Monday’s announcement, Ford said it would use Mobileye’s chips, sensors, and software in its upcoming next generation of vehicles including its top-selling F-150 pickup truck and new electric SUV, the Mustang Mach-E. The partners did not release the financial terms of the deal, but said that Ford cars will display Mobileye’s name and logo in vehicles that include the technology.
Intel bought Mobileye, the brainchild of Israeli computer scientist Amnon Shashua, for $15 billion in 2017, expecting it might take years for the technology bet to pay off. Now the unit is one of the fastest-growing parts of Intel, with revenue up 22% to $254 million in the first quarter. But it’s still a drop in the bucket at Intel, where chips for PCs and servers brought in $17 billion in the quarter. Mobileye’s operating income of $88 million, up 29%, was likewise dwarfed by PC and server operating income of $7.7 billion.